@ Nick Dow. It is obviously very wrong when people are subjected to racist behaviour. However, a) you know nothing about what I do or do not know about Travellers and b) nobody is denying that such things happen.

Generally

It strikes me as ironic that on the same web site I encounter some people who seem hell bent on underplaying the obvious racism of a man who had to be told that Black American under-achievement was due to racism not their race and also on slagging off one of the few writers to point out this racism.

As it happens I once posted a message in which I criticised negatives stereotypes of Travellers, giving examples of types of work that they did to show that the stereotyping was wrong. Jim Carroll took the example stereotype from my post and put it all over the place falsely claiming that these words represented my opinions.

I would be careful about the friends you choose. Because for me stuff like that gives anti-racism pro equality movements a bad name.