The US education system sucks. Why? I just learned that 70-80 percent of the Romani population (Romani, not Romanian), were murdered in the Holocaust. I had never heard of Romani’s before.

Our education system needs to be destroyed and built back up, correctly.
Erasing these people from history books, from our classrooms, from our education system, is disgusting. Did you know 90% of the Romani population in Europe live below the poverty line?

Did you know Romani women in czech republic, slovakia, and hungary, were victims of +
forced sterilization?

I didnt. I didnt even know that they existed. Our education system needs to be fixed so it is not written by the “winners”. It needs to accurately detail and educate about what happened.

Why do you think people love Columbus? They were taught +
https://medium.com/athenslivegr/roma-in-greece-another-story-of-invisibility-68fd91478832

Also another article to look at if you are interested. They’re very underrepresented in many parts of society and are tied to being criminals, which is very racist and unfair considering the circumstances they live in.
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