Ramona Mayon

Nomadic Proud Ramona Mayon

These thirteen essays are about the years spent raising a young family on Ocean Beach, San Francisco, in a flat-black BlueBird school bus/home, under the hate-filled eyes of the "real" residents. Segregation is merely codified bigotry, as in a matter of there, not here. Go there, you can't be here. Go to your place. Over there is your place, not here where I have to see you. Apartheid is them telling you there is no place for you and empowering their government to drive you out by force of law. Thinking themselves perfectly legal doing so because of WHAT you are. My first (and free) book @ www.nomadicproud.wordpress.com "My Big Fat Book of Gypsy Traveller Lies, Hate & Bigotry", also on Academia, is a photograph of words (580,529 words on 1918 pages) built from hate speech collected Nov 2011 - April 2012 from online news articles, essays, forums, threads, etc. for a visible slice of dis-information and naked hatred of the GRT (gypsy-Roma-Traveller), an acronym used by NGOs and European political parties for the gypsy-Roma-Travellers. This is an attempt to show how those in 'real' houses are able to authorize a pogrom, which is, after all, defined as a planned campaign of persecution sanctioned by a government, directed against an ethnic group. I am an American-born Scottish Traveller. I compiled the hate comments after I noticed the media didn't mention the ACTUAL number of arrests of Venice Beach "RV dwellers" (52) during the 2010 Thanksgiving holidays as if all that misery really didn't happen. I kept going around the globe following a tsunami of bigotry and took a snapshot to send society a postcard about what is happening out here. Putting together that book of hate only fueled my desire to show a real Traveller's life from the other side of the curtains. This book is the result.