TWO Newport travellers are calling on residents fighting plans to create designated Gypsy sites in Newport to give them a chance to prove they are not all bad.
Brothers Bobby and Tom Tom Hendry say they are upset by “racist” comments left on an online petition branding Travellers and Gypsies as “thieving scum”, and are asking people not to judge them before they get to know them.
Whilst they acknowledge some Travellers, who have previously left Newport council with hefty cleaning bills after setting up illegal encampments, do not help the situation, they are adamant they are not all the same.
Bobby, 21, said: “You are tarring a very large community with a very small brush. If a black person committed a crime would you say all black people are criminals? You wouldn’t, would you?”
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