Gypsy

[Benjamin Barrett]

What's wrong with "Roma crimes"?

Benjamin Barrett

> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of Grant Barrett
>
> A bit from Fairfax County, Virginia, about the use of
> "gypsy" as pejorative.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49297-2001A
> ug22.html
>
> "Fairfax County police and prosecutors say they do not
> intend to be
> pejorative by using the term 'gypsy crimes' but are at a
> loss as to how to
> describe an annual rash of thefts in the county committed
> by an elusive,
> transient group thought to be from the Romani culture."