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Speak English Please: Staying Hopeful in Waiting for my Latino EEOC Rep to Represent

Without divulging any confidential processes in a personal protest against unfair employment practices against a local company that is a member of a international, fortune 500 powerhouse, I'm hoping that cultural competence wins the day. I have a Latino representative who seems to be proficient in administering the protocol that new intakes must suffer. Matter of fact, he seems like a nice guy. Many blacks who speak about the commonality of minorities in the fight for justice simply don't talk (enough) about the many potential stratification of indifference found between different minorities. In conversations I encounter all the time arguments like 'minorities should bind together, fight together, and forget about any potential schisms in cultural philosophy, realities, preferences. All minorities, no matter what there moral or racist codes may be, all of us are in the same bag, being discriminated against. "Dr. King never would have tolerated another minority not reco