The English Of Freddy
You can't hardly do any good slacking out here what with all that worker noise.Those guys are working 13 hours a day and the only break I get from them is when I go down and paint the outside of the cottage they are living in, which used to be the cottage I lived in. I will live down there again someday but for now it is Las Casas de Los Latino's.
The Latino's, there's five of them out here, they don't seem that friendly to Freddy from Honduras. He is always working by himself while the other four guys laugh and joke and work together. Yesterday they were calling out to him in Spanish and laughing. I was skimming leaves off the pool surface. Freddy said under his breath to his co-workers, fuck you. English very good, Freddy, I said.
I think some Latinos look upon Hondurans as more black than they or more African. They might have come here at the same time and they might be as black, but the pecking order is based on the what some Latinos take to be class distinction and/or per capita income of the native country.
We have a Honduran friend who is not accepted well by certain other Hispanics and African Americans.
Wouldn't it be easier just to hate everybody, no, no, I mean Love everybody.
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You can't hardly do any good slacking out here what with all that worker noise.Those guys are working 13 hours a day and the only break I get from them is when I go down and paint the outside of the cottage they are living in, which used to be the cottage I lived in. I will live down there again someday but for now it is Las Casas de Los Latino's.
The Latino's, there's five of them out here, they don't seem that friendly to Freddy from Honduras. He is always working by himself while the other four guys laugh and joke and work together. Yesterday they were calling out to him in Spanish and laughing. I was skimming leaves off the pool surface. Freddy said under his breath to his co-workers, fuck you. English very good, Freddy, I said.
- jimlouis 7-12-2006 4:31 pm
I think some Latinos look upon Hondurans as more black than they or more African. They might have come here at the same time and they might be as black, but the pecking order is based on the what some Latinos take to be class distinction and/or per capita income of the native country.
We have a Honduran friend who is not accepted well by certain other Hispanics and African Americans.
- Marco (guest) 7-12-2006 5:31 pm [add a comment]
Wouldn't it be easier just to hate everybody, no, no, I mean Love everybody.
- jimlouis 7-13-2006 2:10 pm [add a comment]