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"Why is this happening? Why are people still laughing?

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Neo-Nazis in the streets and you don’t know what’s happening.

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Gypsies in the streets, poor people and the homeless in the streets, and so on.

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They are making fools of Roma and I was just standing there.

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But it won’t be like that, the pain will leave.

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And when we have problems, Konexe Civic Association will help us.

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It isn't fun, we're always unemployed.

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Because of segregated schools, everyone is just on welfare.

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At the moment I plan on sleeping in a van.

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I rap about love, sometimes about beauty.

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And when I look for work I will ask, “Who wants us, who wants us?”

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Nobody wants us.

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Do you want to know why? Do you want to? Because you know why."

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I feel very bad today.

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I don't like funerals, especially when it’s someone I knew.

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His name was Ivan Jarka.

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He lived in England and only came because of the festival,

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because it was the biggest in Teplice...

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And it ended with his death.

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When a young man dies of an illness, it is like he is being freed.

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However, when he is killed because he is Roma, because of his race, that is senseless.

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What they did to Ivan, it was a brutal murder.

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The Czech Romani need to stand up and unite because such a murder could happen to anyone.

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We want to show the European Union that we are a people and that we suffer.

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There are race-motivated riots by the Czech people here. We can’t tolerate it.

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If a Roma has a fight with a Czech, the whole Republic wants to kill him!

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The hate is on both sides, but they don’t have to kill anyone.

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My emotions are not racist, I am just telling the truth.

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We don’t want violence!

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And all of us have to speak up, not just activists like Mr. Miker and a few others.

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All of us, nationwide, have to speak up.

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We make hiphop, we rap and we express our opinions that way.

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We are young guys who are not interested in just talking, that’s for the old.

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If we went and talked like some politicians, no one would be interested.

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Pavel is an intelligent boy, he is smart.

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He finished primary school. Pavel was born into a bad family.

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Pavel was born into the family of a junkie.

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When Pavel was little, his parents were arrested and he lived in an orphanage for a time.

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I would like to study, but I don't have time.

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My mum works all the time, and money-wise we’re not doing so well.

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So how could I go to school?

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I quit school because there were a lot of things to pay for:

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forty euros for notebooks, textbooks and overalls, and there was no money.

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So I didn't go.

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Radek barely speaks to his father. He blames his dad for their problems because he left them.

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He has talent

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I like my mum because she takes care of us and I don’t like my dad because he abandoned us.

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I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life, that’s why I go to school.

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"You have been randomly assigned these foods:

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Radek- chicken soup, noodles, potato dumplings…"

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I chose cooking

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I would like to be a famous rapper. That is my dream.

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I also dream of a hotel in Germany or somewhere even farther away.

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It would be ours and we would rap there, me and my buddies.

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Jožka: "Come on up." Boys: "No, you come down here!"

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Now, Uncle, what do you have?

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Radek: "We’ll come up for some tea."

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Why do I work with young people? Because there is hope in the youth.

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The older generation, like my generation, is unchangeable because their minds are set,

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but I see a chance with young people.

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Honza: "I’m okay, uncle."

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Jožka: "Good, good, Honza. Kaštuna, sit next to me."

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So, who is still missing? Only Milan and Radek, that’s all.

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Honza: "Milan is outside, uncle, with his girlfriend. He's coming back."

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So… When did the first Gypsies come to Bohemia? Approximately?

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When did the first Roma come to the Czech country? When did they start to get together?

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The beginning of the 17th century?

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Right… It was the start of the 17th century.

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And where did they come from?

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India.

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Well… Not from India at that point.

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People say, “Why do you help those bastards for free? Look what they do!”

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I say, “What bastards? They are our children, ours. They are our hope.”

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Jožka: "Look at how you’re sitting there, it’s a typical Gypsy photo."

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Jožka saved us. Jožka gave us a reason to live.

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Otherwise we would be taking drugs and stealing.

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Uncle is such a… I know that he would give you everything he has.

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He is not like other Roma.

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He would rather give opportunities to others than to himself.

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"Krupka ghetto, that’s us.

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We are black rappers and stylish too.

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You have to know that we are niggers, and if you have a problem you can criticise."

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The boys started with activism by rapping against Neo-Nazis, poverty and life in the dormitories.

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Neo-Nazi marches in Krupka led them to do music. There have been eight here.

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Honza, fuck! Sing nicely!

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If you’re gonna sing it like that, you should be beaten.

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How could you fuck up the Gypsy Anthem like that? Nothing is sacred to you.

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Don’t put your hands on your hearts, you’re not Americans.

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"I went, I went, on long journeys."

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Working with teenagers is very difficult, especially for me.

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A lot of times they ask for advice, but in the end just do what they want.

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They do want help, but as you can see it’s all fun and games to them

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and then they just want to make me mad or just want to joke.

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So we rap about life, drug addicts, racists, ourselves

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about how we feel when someone is on drugs and so on.

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Sometimes we rap about love

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When I rap, I feel like myself. I feel free.

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First we made our own songs, some rubbish, our own opinions,

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but when we got together with Jožka,

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we said to ourselves that it would be better to perform songs about Gypsies

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and how we must love each other.

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I need to unite Roma people, we must stand together.

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I have convinced people not to run away, but to stand and defend themselves.

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When God created Roma, he gave him a horse and told him, “The whole world will belong to you.

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You will walk around the world and spread love and culture.”

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So the Roma took the horse and started to walk around the world,

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and to this day he is learning culture and spreading love.

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And the government in [another town] after our demonstration promised improvements,

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and what do you think they did? “NOTHING!”

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Thank you for your attention.

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I understand that you are angry, but I beg you not to damage our cause.

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Do not be inspired by violence. Turn around. This will only cause problems.

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The police are prepared, so please do not go to the streets. This is not necessary.

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This is the police of the Czech Republic.

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In the name of the law you must leave this area and break up the demonstration.

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You have five minutes. If you do not comply, we will use force.

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"Czech land for Czech people! Czech for Czech!"

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I think that the real reason for the hatred is prejudice, first of all.

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That is the first reason. Another reason is high unemployment.

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The third reason is social benefits, because the people from the majority

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believe that the Roma receive more social benefits.

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People have nothing to do, they have no work,

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they are at home, so they look for someone to blame.

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I know, your heart is crying, mine is crying too.

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But they grew up with me and now they’re standing over there, on the other side.

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And now they are standing on the other side.

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The boys, like me, say no, because we are activists.

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We stand up against Neo-Nazism so that the situation from the '30s won't repeat itself.

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You know, it sounds silly, but the marches have brought us closer together.

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Because there is danger in the air and people know they must stick together.

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Why? If they don’t live here should they march through our housing estate?

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Why should some strangers march through our housing estate and scare the children?

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Why should they shout at anybody?

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I don't agree with the situation in Duchov. The attack by the Roma woman was wrong.

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but all Roma people can’t be bullied when they had nothing to do with [the problem].

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When we rap and people accept us here and there, they will talk about it,

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about where we rapped and that it was good, and we will become more and more famous.

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It will spread.

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He wants us to be ourselves and not be ashamed, or lie about being Gypsies...

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Pavel is the most similar to me. He will be able to lead others after I’m gone.

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He has a talent for organizing and a good heart.

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I think he could be a good leader. He is grateful to people who do good things for him.

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I think they will achieve more thanks to the music than if they stand on a barricade,

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even though obviously I cannot stop them.

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What inspires me to go on? When I see the young ones.

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"Why is God punishing me so?

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After all, I have a wife and children."

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Activism is the first thing that they have to take over from me.

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They have to help others.

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I feel their songs with them. First they sing them for me and then for others.

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"When my heart weeps with grief."