Irish Travellers

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IRISH TRAVELLERS

An Undocumented Journey Through History

A book available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble

Murphy Street, Murphy Village

Blanch Street, Murphy Village

Kennedy Drive, Murphy Village

The mass media and its never-ending need for sensationalism carefully choose a picture that promotes their narrative. A culture branded as inferior by those who see themselves as superior. The color of your skin, ethnicity, nationality, and religion all used to produce a depiction of a subordinate ethnic minority unworthy of recognition. Bigotry, discrimination, intolerance, prejudice, racism, and xenophobia printed daily by those seeking only to promote race hatred.

The use of carefully chosen words that cautiously obscures reality and strengthens a false narrative that allows the media to promote a hidden agenda. “Run the Gypsies out,” they say behind the walls that conceal their race hatred, not unlike the slave owners of Traditional Southern Society who chained the innocent Africans to trees, stripped their bodies, and whipped them without mercy or regret. Racism put on display for all to see yet denied by those who seek only vigilante justice.

Guiltless children were driven from schoolrooms by teachers who see them as a waste of resources and classmates who bully them daily. Child abuse overshadowed by false allegations made against the parents to obscure racism by those who hate without reason. The question at no time asked; where is the truancy officer, the individual employed by the school system to investigate the children’s continued absences? Perhaps, rejoicing the unpardonable justification of children shunted from schoolrooms forever ensnaring them in the vicious cycle of poverty and marginalization.