poverty porn
I am so tired of seeing only photos of poor and dirty Roma children or begging women on the corner of a street.
Yes, there are many, many of us living in exclusion, abject poverty, and terrible sanitary and social conditions…
but, not all of us.
In a way, this promotes another stereotype—to be a gypsy is to be poor and dirty and a beggar.
That’s not true for all of us though… but, I think that this stereotype feeds into the fact that we are not seen as Roma if we are not dirt poor and educated. Sometimes even having a house excludes us from being considered “true Roma”…
Sometimes, I feel like I can’t win.
You ain’t never lied.
