The inert and inappropriate behavior of the Roma has given others a free hand to run the Roma media for them. It happened because the educated Roma forgot that their place is among their people, forgot the lessons learned from other peoples' histories. The concept of the intelligentsia as champion of emancipation has sunk into oblivion. Romani journalists will have to learn to write for their own people the best way they can. Then, no one will have the right to say that non-Roma are to be blamed or given credit for the conditions in which the Roma find themselves.
Romani children receive in most national educational systems.
A Romani child receives no Romani history in school. Czechs, Russians, and Spaniards all learn about their famous fellow countrymen. A Rom, ridiculed and rejected by many, is denied education that would allow him or her to identify with a hero or a distinguished representative of Roma culture or politics. They certainly exist and always have existed. In such circumstances, a national majority will treat a people without its own history or language with condescension.