Gene and Aaron Williams are cousins. They are pavement contractors, based in Texas, but they travel to other parts of the country to work as well. They say they frequently feel discriminated against based on their ethnicity.
Still, he says the ad demonstrates why he never tells clients he is Romani. He has produced a documentary about his experience as a Romani in the United States. He says most of the women in his family are fortune tellers - one of whom became particularly upset when he filmed her. What did you do? Tell me what you did? He says his organization does not specifically target Roma.
Nonetheless, he says, confidence crime suspects are frequently Romani. In some of these offenses - specifically fortune telling, specifically home-repair frauds - a lot of the suspects happen to be Gypsies. They just come up with stuff out of the blue. It has evolved and maintained itself over the years by constantly adapting," says Grow.
Our laws are basically inconveniences to them. He says occupations like fortune-telling and traveling construction work may be explained by Romani history. Near the end of the 13th century Roma immigrated to Europe from India, where Hancock says fortune telling is a prestigious profession. By the s many were enslaved in Romania. Other Roma populations were constantly on the move because of various types of discrimination. These tombs are tagged with blooming pots of scarlet red poinsettias and empty Coke and Dr Pepper soda cans in place of candle adornments.
Evans is the name inscribed on each of these opulent tombs — the Roma clan that has made Fort Worth its home for more than a hundred years. They talk over one another, sometimes in English, other times in Romani, a language that is one of the healthiest immigrant dialects in the United States, carried throughout the generations with little threat of endangerment, according to Ian F Hancock, Romani activist and professor of linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.
He pulls out bags of potato chips, sandwich materials, sweet treats and more soda. On days off, Tom says his family likes to enjoy a soft drink amongst their dead, leaving the soda can behind as a momento. For decades, the Evans were chronicled in the Dallas newspaper. The Evans clan has long been known for leadership and literacy. Not far from the cemetery is the suburban neighbourhood of White Settlement, Fort Worth. Flat, generic and strewn with fuel stations, odd shops and intersecting residential streets, the region appears untouched by the gentrification of big box stores just beyond the overpass.
Parks of mobile homes are a frequent sight, some of which have been bought by Roma families. Along with Houston, the city of Fort Worth holds the largest population of Roma in the state of Texas, which is home to about 20, Romani Americans — most of which are Romanichal and Vlax — out of a national population of around one million.
The Dikhlo Collective is fundamentally about acceptance. It offers diaspora members traditional signs of Roma heritage, for example Dikhlo, but it also aims to uplift those who do not identify with traditional cultural emblems or who wish to celebrate their Romani identity in tandem with other identities. Negron must be thoughtful as she works. She makes scrunchies, jewelry, and other subtler items for those who would like to acknowledge their Romani identity without garnering attention from non-Roma.
While the Dikhlo Collective celebrates traditional ideas about Romani heritage, it is intent on appealing to younger generations. And we want to kind of be a space for celebration and acceptance.
Another key objective of the Dikhlo Collective is to create community and a sense of belonging, both for those receiving a package and those contributing to them. In addition, the collective works to uplift Roma artists around the world, Negron said. Creating individually tailored packages takes time. Negron said a pair of hair ribbons takes about an hour to complete. Yet with COVID restrictions on social gatherings, and with the gratitude many in the Romani diaspora have shared with Negron and Jones, Negron has no trouble staying motivated.
Your support ensures great journalism and education on underreported and systemic global issues. Main Menu Navigation. View Primary Menu Search. Translate page with Google. Millie Brigaud Reporting Fellow. Multiple Authors. Items included in a Dikhlo Collective package. Image courtesy of Naomi Negron. United States, Dikhlo Collective earrings. S everal groups, all known to outsiders as "Gypsies," live today in the United States. In their native languages, each of the groups refers to itself by a specific name, but all translate their self-designations as "Gypsy" when speaking English.
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