How tragic to see the hunted faces of the 100 Romanians being chased out of their homes in Belfast, by gangs of hooligans.
What was doubly horrible was that it was obvious that these people were Roma and so visibly dark-skinned.
You would have thought that this level of racist xenophobia would be nigh on impossible in a place that is coming out of its own long nightmarish period of "The Troubles".
The positive thing we can take is that nearly everyone else has come out in support of the Roma, the main political parties, the churches, and ordinary decent folk.
There is no room for this sort of thuggery in today's society.
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