My former friend - the racist (about Roma people in Slovakia)

An ok day just turned ugly. My heart was beating so fast when having this chat conversation with what I used to consider a friend/buddy from Slovakia. I have just shortened it a little and unfortunately I missed to save the first part of the conversation which included how this guy says that he thinks that Roma in Slovakia should die. His "arguments" for this are shown below. He also told me about how they stop buses by standing in the middle of the road to rob them and that they teach their kids to do the same. Another thing he said when I called him a racist is that he isn't one, that he likes white, red, yellow, black just not Roma people, as if they don't count when it comes to racism. I have now erased him from my list and have no intention to have further contact with him. Unfortunately this is far away from a unique opinion among Slovaks about Roma.

21:38M

in the school

and they never finish it even its for free

21:38Natasja

Do you say that they receiveeducation like all ther kids?

21:39M

yes

many

21:39Natasja

no

21:39M

oh yes

21:39Natasja

That’s a lie!

21:39M

that is not

21:39Natasja

they don't get education like everyone else....

21:39M

there are schools mostly around kosice

21:39Natasja

that just shows how little you actually KNOW about them

21:39M

lets call them white kids

they have to pay for lunch

at school

21:40M

they have to buy the books and pens

21:40Natasja

the white kids?

21:40M

everything

roma kids

they get lunch for free

transportation or dorms for free

books and pens and everything for free

and what happens

as i said

they dont go to school

if they go

21:41M

they steal from there

and they dont even finish it

what matters

?

education

last time they were trying to educate them

21:42Natasja

what kind of education?

21:42M

it was some kind of an american project

like 10 people from usa

they came

like how they will change them and teach them i dont know what

they came

after 3 days

they got robbed

romas took everything they had

even their passports

and americans went home

end of the storry

21:44Natasja

you're such a racist...

21:44M

milions and milions are spent on support of any kind for them

effect?!

nada

they take destroy and then they ask for more

21:45Natasja

so they are not worth as much as others?

so what? Slovaks steal and rob too? Did you think that slovaks don't??? In what universe are you living in?

21:46M

nope they are worth much more, coz others are working their asses of paying taxes

and they hardly survive from month to month

21:46Natasja

I am talking about human worth not fucking money

21:46M

of course slovaks do

21:46Natasja

so, what's you point?

21:47M

but we are talking about 10 percent top

21:47Natasja

so?

21:47M

in case of romas it is 95

21:47Natasja

you are nothing more than a racist

21:47M

slovaks are having 1 or 2 kids top

coz they can not afford more

but one roma 30 years old has ten kids

just to get the money from the state

that is all

and if that makes me a racist fine, i am a racist like everyone who lives in slovakia and is not roma

21:51Natasja

as I said, slovaks are infamous for their racism..

21:51M

well

too bad

go there try something teach them help them

change their mentality

and then we can talk

they live there coz they recieved nice house with appartaments

poor romas they live in the suburbs without electricity and water

that is not there

they had a nice house with water electricity

they were not paying for water nor electricity btw

21:57Natasja

I will end this conversation know. Bye

21:57M

they destroyed the house selling everything they could including water pipes

they destroyed the house selling everything they could including water pipes

and the house fell down

they said build us a new one

their ooown fault

and btw, i have rome friends, mother rome father roma kids roma.I know this family since forever.And they are great, but that is sadly those 5 percent i mentioned!

i dont have a problem with the fact that they are roma

coz they live and they behave like people

and they hate and they have the same oppinion about the roma u are so fighting for as i do!!!!

weird isnt it?!

bye

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