The Roma people, also known as Gypsies, are about 14% of the population of Eastern Europe and have practically no representation in parliaments or governmental institutions. Descendants of people from Northwest India who speak a Sanskrit based language, they are the only major non-white group in Eastern Europe and they are persecuted almost everywhere they live. In Serbia and the Czech Republic Roma have been beaten to death. In one Czech town some years ago local authorities literally walled off the Roma community in a medieval ghetto.
Today in Hungary racists are coming for the Roma. As Martin Niemoller warned:
First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Communist.Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
Today’s Associated Press dispatch From Hungary carries a warning and an opportunity to oppose racism:
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian civic groups are calling on companies to pull their ads from a newspaper that published a column in which a member of the governing Fidesz party made gravely disparaging remarks about the country’s Roma minority.
The appeal from Amnesty International Hungary, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, and 21 other groups, including several advocating for the rights of Gypsies — or Roma, as they are also called — said the companies should boycott the Magyar Hirlap newspaper until it “most resolutely condemns” the Jan. 5 column by journalist Zsolt Bayer in which he wrote that “a significant part of the Roma … are animals and they behave like animals.”
Among the companies petitioned by the civic groups are Vodafone, FedEx, IKEA, Proctor and Gamble, and Hungarian State Railways.
So, let’s stop these degenerate racists while they are coming for the Roma and don’t wait until they come for you. Here is how to contact Vodafone, IKEA, Proctor & Gamble, and Fedex to tell them to boycott Magyar Hirlap:
http://pg.custhelp.com/app/ask/session/L3NpZC9IWHhNbFZnbA%3D%3D
https://www.expolink.co.uk/whistleblowing-hotline/reporting/?option=com_sortsurvey&lang=en-EN
Enter: vodaphone (when you go to the above link)
