The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154974   Message #3641765
Posted By: Jim Carroll
13-Jul-14 - 08:41 AM
Thread Name: A worrying circular from a folk club
Subject: RE: A worrying circular from a folk club
Last post seems to have gone missing
"I have supported your argument that the travellers were not given the justice"
Throughout these you have cast doubt on whether these cases are connected in any way to the extreme prejudice that exists against Travellers here, and more-or-less everywhere else
" similar evasions of justice have occurred in each group, both settled and travellers"
That, as far as I can see, continues to be your case.
My accusation was a general one aimed at those who either support that prejudice or refuse to recognise its existence.
If I worded my statement as to leave the impression that it included you, of course I apologise; I was then and remain unclear on your own view on these particular cases.
Whenever these arguments arise I'm always reminded of Jeannie Robertson's wry comment that she now had an O.B.E. to hang on her wall, but she or her family still couldn't get served in many of her country's pubs or shops.
Jim Carroll