Bernie Goldbach was looking for someone – probably me –  to bite in his latest edition of podcasting.ie. 

Goddess forbid that any of the students who made the podcast that I wrote about here would actually talk about or respond to the issues made in the post or comments. And of course actually talking to Travellers might be too much of a good idea also. Ah no just read out the most patronising rant on Travellers which totally misunderstands and wrongly interprets Traveller culture, ethnicity and identity. 

The rant in question by Brenda Power, of course is couched in the ‘even if I say this I’m being accused of racism’ (taken from Ian O’Doherty) whine to cover up it’s bigotry.  And from my experience Travellers are so tired of dealing with racism institutionally and otherwise and trying to live their lives to mount any sort of response.