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"Mr President, let me start by quoting Malcolm X: ‘I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their colour’. That is not one of Malcolm X’s most radical quotes. However, despite the rhetoric of the establishment, it is clear that they – and some people in this Chamber – struggle with that idea, especially when it comes to Roma people.
This crisis has seen an increase in racism and xenophobia against Roma and other minorities as politicians attempt to scapegoat them to deflect attention away from their own austerity policies.
Last month a young Roma girl in Dublin was taken away from her parents by the police. Why? Because she was presumed to have been the victim of abduction simply on the basis of the colour of her hair. This racial profiling and state racism cannot be accepted. An independent inquiry is needed immediately. In France, when a Roma child was taken from a school bus by police and deported, school students all over France marched in protest. They knew instinctively how to respond to blatant discrimination. We need more than resolutions. We need a struggle to root out a system that has racism at its core."@en1
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