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Liberated Jewish man holds a Nazi soldier at gunpoint.

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“The Devil Went Down To Georgia” White Trash Washing Machine Cover

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Your "kid" is fucking ugly, I hope it dies soon. It's better for it than to grow up to be a gypsy subhuman.

Your mum must be really proud. Grew up into a right charmer, didn’t you?

khuleskero muj. 

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When people ask you if your baby is *really* yours (no, I stole her) and if she’s a “proper Gypsy” yet...

*sigh*

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People asked me why I “abandoned” this blog. I didn’t. I had a high risk pregnancy and a preterm baby. Amethyst Rosena Skye (born at 35 weeks on 10/10/2016) and I are doing fine and getting back into the world!

:) 

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Is it still common for romanies to think that non-romans are unclean? I know romani people are not one monolithic group but this has come up a few times when I have tried to study and learn about their/yours culture. My intention is not to attack nor insult your people but this whole clean and unclean mentality is really baffling to me. I can understand it being useful in the past but not so in today's society

The honest fact is, non-Romani are not ‘clean’ in the same ways that we are. We have a lot of cleanliness rules and we still practice many of them - especially where food is concerned. When I used to work in an office with non-Roma, I found it quite a challenge. They’d sneeze everywhere, put dirty hands all over everything, eat with a fork they dropped on the floor (or eat food they dropped on the floor). They’d take food and drink into the rest room, leave dirty tissues everywhere... people don’t clean things very well - even here at home, I clorox every surface, keep the toilet lid closed, rinse out the sinks every time I use them... keep raw meat away from other foods (raw or cooked). These things just make sense to me and honestly, the way non-Romani live their lives is quite baffling to me. How do you do it without being sick all the time or catching parasites from meats (pork is SO bad for that)....? I don’t understand how you can even consider half the things you do as “clean”... 

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A couple years ago, I was spent a long time reading your blog and learned a lot about Roma. I'm Jewish, so I especially took note of the fact that Roma usually aren't mentioned in Holocaust Remembrance activities. So this year, I made sure to include a reading about Roma in the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony my friend and I organized (we used excerpts from a speech by Laszlo Teleky). I want to thank you for educating me and giving me the chance to hold a more inclusive ceremony.

Thank you. It means a great deal.

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I'd beat your face to a pulp for saying gyps are equal to humans, too. You are less than nothing.

Try it.

I dare you.

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Majbut khinjardi som

Na džanav so som te phenel. Akana, kamav te xal saaaaaavoro sa! Aja ciknori hin jekh bokhali phakalji! Bah. Sakoďiveseskero kamav te pisinel jekh sera (adej)... abo... majbut khinjardi som. Majbut khabnji thaj phari lol. Aj. Te merava....

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Mitko, 17, was beaten in Bulgaria for saying Roma are equal to non-Roma. Post a photo in solidarity with Mitko!

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Mitko: A Roma Rights Hero In Europe, it takes guts for Roma to stand up to racist bullies. That’s what 17 year-old Mitko, pictured here, did earlier this week. The thug he stood up to attacked him. He’s not backing down. He believes#RomaAreEqual and so do we. We’re working with the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee to make sure Mitko gets justice. Mitko is today’s most visible Roma rights hero. Many others are also taking their cases to court, to the internet, or to the streets, and we are backing them.

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Hey, I know you're not Kalderash but can you try to answer why "I see the horses" is "Dikhav o grast" instead of using the accusative case of "Dikhav le grastês". Thank you. And if you don't know, can you see if anyone of Rrumblr can answer? Thank you murri volime Rromní

Sorry it took me so long to get to this:

Horse is only declined in it’s oblique plural form (oblique is also known as “accusative”). So “Dikhav o grast” (I see the horse) but “cindjom parne grastes” (I bought the white horse - Here grastes is the accusative case of grast and is the oblique stem).

From a file I have about this:

“The accusative case of nouns is also called the oblique stem. If the noun in the accusative position in the sentence defines an animate (living person, animal or a supernatural being) it then takes the accusative case, which also serves as the oblique stem and is declined for gender and number. If the noun is inanimate like a table, its accusative stem is not used as such but is used as the oblique stem like the accusative case of animate nouns”

and a refresher on accusative case:

“the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of (some or all) prepositions.“

Basically because I am DOING the buying to the horse, it is the direct object of the transitive verb “to buy” and the horse therefore is accusative….

Dikhel is an INTRANSITIVE verb in Kalderash (though considered transitive in some other dialects) so you are not doing the looking to the horse… if that makes sense?! Now I guess if you’re looking at multiple horses then you have to decline in the oblique: “dikhav le grastes” - I see the horses. I think this is partly because horse is both singular and plural in Romani, much like sheep in English.

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A thin blanket of snow lay on the window sill and the 4am sky sat heavy above. I could smell the warmth of bread from the kitchen and the fire chattered in the living room.

"It's time," Maami said...

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The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman. Szpilman's family were deported to Treblinka, where they were exterminated; he survived only because a music-loving policeman recognised him. ‬

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United Nations International Day of Commemoration of Victims of the Holocaust

Today marks the United Nations International Day of Commemoration of Victims of the Holocaust. For only the third time in its history, there will be a Romani/Sinti speaker. Please show your support. Wear red. Take a moment of silence. Share your photos, videos, and memories will us, with your friends. ‪#‎R4R‬ ‪#‎Red4Remembrance‬

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Via @chorrorri:

I C A N N O T F O R G E T

“ich lebe mit meinen verstorbenen” - I live with my deceased, Ceija Stojka

Tomorrow, these flowers will be gently laid in the river to remember all those who who suffered during the Holocaust, those who were lost, and those who survived.

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United Nations International Day of Commemoration of Victims of the Holocaust

Today marks the United Nations International Day of Commemoration of Victims of the Holocaust and the liberation of Auschwitz. 

For only the third time in its history, there will be a Romani/Sinti speaker. Please show your support. Wear red. Take a moment of silence. Share your photos, videos, and memories will us, with your friends.

https://www.facebook.com/Red4Remembrance

https://twitter.com/Red4Remembrance

http://red4remembrance.tumblr.com/