GYPSY Travellers in Scotland are involved in an uphill struggle, as they always have been, to retain their culture and win respect, dignity and…
GYPSY Travellers in Scotland are involved in an uphill struggle, as they always have been, to retain their culture and win respect, dignity and proper recognition in wider society. Many are concerned that, despite some progress, they are still the victims of institutional racism, which accompanies and feeds the casual racism they suffer in everyday encounters with the settled community.
The McPhees and Professor Clark used shared memory, language and historical record going back hundreds of years to prove that, like their Romany cousins, the Scottish Gypsy Traveller community had its origins in the diaspora from India more than 1000 years ago. But when pieced together these are experienced by members of the Gypsy Traveller community in Scotland as a threat to the protections they should enjoy under the Equality Act.This was exemplified by the official response to an incident that took place in a shop in Perth in March last year. A woman Scottish Gypsy Traveller was called a “dirty mink” by a man unknown to her who was a security guard in an indoor shopping centre.
It seems some police officers are not alone in failing to understand hate crime and the reality of racism outlined in the Macpherson Report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The absence of capitals in naming the minority community speaks for itself. Hate crime, including racist abuse, is in part self-defined.
The conflation of ethnic minority with colour, which might explain the barriers described, is embedded within the rules of Scotland’s party of government, the
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