Well, since we're gettin personal about it....
Warik said:
....I live in Miami and, as jayjay put a little less bluntly, you're full of shit. They haven't "taken over" the job market. If they are qualified for the jobs, then they deserve them, if they are NOT qualified for the jobs, isn't it pretty pathetic that some Cuban got a job over Mr. Super Smart Whitey?....
I doubt things have changed, but I grew up in Florida.
Let me tell you what it was like for me. Graduate high school, get through community college. Finding more and more jobs REQUIRE FLUENCY IN SPANISH to even be considered. I go for jobs I am more than qualified for and get refused the option to even apply.
Here's the scandal. Hispanics took the low paying jobs. In time, many worked up into positions....especially in personnel. They can make applications appear or disappear without being suspected of any wrongdoing. After all, mistakes do happen.
Want any job in South Flordia and you're white, forget about it. That's why we left.
My dad has a friend who will get him a job after he was laid off. He gets passed over. When he goes to find out why, his friend asked why he never applied for the position (he did). My dad checks at personnel and demands to see his application packet. He finds it buried in a box of dead files all 5 years old.
Sure, the hispanic woman running the airline's personnel office wan't ensuring someone else had a chance at getting hired.
Neighbor's son is a Metro-Dade detective. Routinely passed over in promotions even though he's consistently in the top 5 of the promotion list. Who gets it? A black or hispanic who couldn't even reach the upper 50 percentile of the list. Minority hiring and promotion is more important than skills and compentency.
My uncle, who ran his own company for many years, finally gets a position with a construction firm that just landed big contracts for work on I-95....after being out of work for several months. He's out in less than two weeks. Reason given? The hispanics in the office said they didn't want to work with a gringo. It was either him or them. He didn't sue the crap out of the company because the whole experiences made him depressed. He was never the same after that.
Sorry if that sounds racist, but that was the reality I saw every stinking day down there. I'm not sure what color the sky is in the world you live, but South Florida does not hire on the ability of the applicant. Color and ethnicity comes first in most all the prime jobs.
There was all kinds of ethnic groups in Florida before the Cubans came. We got along with no big problems with exception to the black/white racial tensions everyplace had. Then, the Cubans show up and all of a sudden, it doesn't matter if you're Italian, Germans, Dutch, Greek, etc. If you aren't hispanic, you're trash.
They didn't pass the English-only law in Florida to be elitist. They passed it because Cubans were defiantly refusing to do business or really do much of anything in English. They expected Americans to learn their language rather than learn our language. That's a high insult.
BTW....
Don't go thinking I'm some white supremecist. Some of my best friends were Hispanics and African-Americans. They agree that there's no excuse for the way the Hispanic community made myself and many, many others feel like outsiders in a land we were inhabiting before they ever steped on our soil.
If you can't tell, this is still a sore issue for me.
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