I've got to say, Larry, that if your purpose has been to show that discrimination was at the heart of a little girl being beaten, you still haven't convinced me. If your purpose was to show the Travellers in a good light, you have had an opposite result. "I think he doth protest to much" holds true here. As in any other attempt to bypass individual responsibilty by the "not my fault" defense, this "Prejudice against travelers" defense ranks right up there with the "Twinkie" defense. What's next, "the devil made me do it?" I've always been enamoured with the mystique of the Roma and related people, haveing been smitten with wanderlust at an early age. However, I was also smitten with logic at an early age. You are doing the travellers no favors. I'm sure that I am not alone in tiring of the "You're all a bunch of racists, you don't understand, nothing happened to the little girl" argument that you've been presenting.

As I've said since the beginning:
"As in any ethnic group:
They ain't all good.
They ain't all bad.
She still hit the kid."

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