Everyone should know how hard times are now. There are thousands of over-qualified people begging for jobs. College graduates who can't use their engineering degree are now working with teenagers in fast food joints. Mechanics are working at Wal-Mart. I'm a Culinary Arts major working in a corporate kitchen (one at the bottom of the barrel, if you know what I mean) because all the positions in the high-class restaurants were all full, so I get to use my degree by throwing pre-made country fried steaks in a deep fryer and flipping pancakes for drunks who want breakfast at 10:45 PM.
At this wonderfully greasy job, I work with a far-right "compassionate conservative." I also work with a lot of dish-washing Haitian people who don't speak much English. The Republican needed a bus tub, so rather than just asking for a bus tub, she tried to get their attention. First of all, she's never bothered to learn any of their names, so she tried tapping on the counter. Yeah, that works in an already-loud dish pit. She then began beating on the counter, cussing and yelling for "a goddamn bus tub" and the one closest to her, genuinely offended, gave her a bus tub. Sure, maybe they don't understand "hey, you fucking voodoo coon, get me a goddamn bus tub!" it was pretty obvious that she wasn't being friendly. She walked away saying "if you're gonna live in this country, learn to speak English!"
I lost it. "Fuck you! Did the pilgrims understand Navajo Indian, or Cherokee, or whatever, when they came over and started taking land? Did anyone speak Native when they gave them polio, raped the women, and forced them to shitty land? Did those Dutch motherfuckers speak African when they turned people into slaves? Hey, do you hate black people? I mean, people who shared your opinion brought them over here."
Her response? "Whatever. It's what I believe." Anyone who uses "whatever" as an argument is an idiot. You have no valid reasoning to back up the bullshit falling out of your mouth.
To anyone who believes this, I fucking dare you to work a day picking fruit, washing dishes, or weeding yards in 100 degree plus weather Then I challenge you to live a week in their countries. I'll be the first to say that I think a lot of minorities are milking it, (but hopefully you can tell I don't side with Nazis, either), but for fuck's sake, how can you say that they're taking your job? They're not working the grill, and you damn sure aren't washing dishes. They know the words that they need to know: Hot, bus tub, hose, behind you, plates, please, and thank you.
Oh, don't forget the fact that unless you're Native American, then you're an immigrant and English might not have been your grandparents' first language, and the only reason English is the predominant language and Christianity is the main religion is because it was forced upon people who were here long before we were.
Second: Having a Jesus tattoo, a nose ring, and a Bible while still bashing gay people and banning books from your "hardcore church" doesn't make you a cool Christian. It makes you a dick with a nose ring.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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