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Rock band Vama's new song stirs emotions in France
The Romanian rock band Vama has written a song that takes on some of the common misconceptions about the Roma or Gypsies. And it skewers French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s expulsion of Gypsies from France earlier this year.As Matthew Brunwasser reports, the English-language “Sarkozy vs Gypsy” is stirring up passions in both France and Romania. Download MP3
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4 comments for “Sarkozy versus Gypsy”
Andre
Not an original style, they copy the gypsy band from New York, featured a time ago also on The World.
It is sad that the civilized Europe has to cope with this plague of invasion of people who just bag, steal and exploit the ” Human Rights Laws”. How many of them want to contribute to the society ???
They want only “Rights” and money !!!
Shame on them ! We do not need parasites !
Nobody asked the french government opinion !
A Rromani woman
What is sad is that you are completely unaware of how prejudice, insane and lost you are. Every race has a criminal element and the facts show how little or less the Rromani crimes are in comparison to most other races.How about non segregated non special needs schooling, no walls to separate the Roma from the rest of Europe, how about non segregated bathrooms, public venues? How about the local media and racist not helping people to hate needlessly through lies and encouraging others to think we are “parasites”, so that we can actually get a job,keep a job and get a better job like everyone else?. How about not having us live in the worse ghetto housing if we have housing at all in some areas and allowing the skinheads and KKK like your self to burn, beat, bomb, ridicule our children, rape and kill us with no consequences? How about treating us like “equal” human beings and stop pretending out of hate that we are not human; which in itself is of the most minority thought throughout the world. You will never kill our spirit, you will never make us disappear and you will never attempt genocide upon us without us raising our voice throughout the world to tell “finally” our side of the story. We will tell the truth from 1000 years ago till today….and you will not stop us,never.
Anca
I totally dislike your comment!!!
Andrei
I’m romanian. I don’t like or approve with the Vama band. Actually, everyone here think they suck b@lls. They’re not original, they’re only for rating, they think they’re rebels, but the only thing they really do is suck. Their song is not the general oppinion. We’re NOT racist over here and gypsies have all the rights they want and need. Still, they chose not to exercise the right to go to school or just work something. It’s easier to beg and blame society for it.
fk that sht!
And the expulsion from France didn’t include ALL gypsies, there’s still A LOT of honest gypsies working and living in France (and Romania) with legitimate papers and jobs and lives. They only take measures here and in France against the scum, like it’s normal.
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