I am a Gypsy and proud !

Ben Millers aid the BBC tried to stop him using the word "gypsy" in his new sketch series with Alexander Armstrong because it could be seen as racist.
The pair wanted to use the term in their BBC One show to ridicule attitudes held in the 1970s.
Speaking to November's issue of FHM magazine, Miller said: "We're having a debate at the moment with the BBC over whether we can say gypsies, because they say gypsies is a racist term, and you think 'Yes it is, but that's the point that we're making, that we were more racist in the 70s than we are now'."
A BBC spokeswoman said: "There are no banned words on the BBC; 'gypsy' isn't a banned word. This wasn't about the word itself, but about the sketch as a whole and the potential to cause of fence."
Miller was quoted on the Daily Mail's website as saying the word was dropped after a discussion with the corporation.
He said: "After discussing the issue both amongst ourselves and with the BBC, we decided to use a different word, so that the target (racism) was clearer and the joke was funnier."
All I have to say about the issue of whether or not gypsy is a racist word is that it is not as far as I am concerned. You see the story that I have from my grandmother is that we are gypsies. It seems that my great grandmother was a lady in waiting at the court of Queen Elizabeth's' mother, she met and fell in love with my great grandfather McGill who was just a stable boy and a gypsy to boot .
Marriage was out of the question and they ran away to Canada and a few years later some Ladies from the court came to Canada to get my great-- grandmother to sign off any claims to title, lands and believe it or not the throne of England. So go right ahead and call me a gypsy I am proud of it even though the correct term is, I have been told Roma. I should also tell you that I am the seventh son of a seventh son, so watch what you say about gypsies .....................