[Diddle E. Squat]

According to the 2000 Census, Harris County is 42 percent Anglo, 33 percent Hispanic, 18 percent black, and 6.5 percent Asian and others. In contrast, Metro's 4,000-member workforce is 17 percent Anglo, 61 percent black, 14.5 percent Hispanic and 8 percent Asian.

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[glock rocks]

Hmmmm. Is the employment application written in English?

Better spend some committee time to study the issue... better have the Diversity for the Sake of Diversity and Justification of its own Existance and Expense Department study it.

[B Knotts]

"Anglo?" Do they mean to say that an Italian-American is an "Anglo?"

[lilylangtree]

Considering that under W's immigration proposal US is going to open their doors south of the border yelling "come one, come all", wouldn't surprise me to learn in about 5 years time that all the employees are non-citizens. Guess the term "illegal aliens" will be non-existent.

[muawiyah]

Seems about right to me. Public transportation systems generally get a lot of folks who are willing to work odd hours under stressful conditions. It's the money, and the uniform you know!

Way back when the Union Pacific was "brand new" it had a lot of wooden trestle bridges designed and built by the Chinese contract work crews and their engineers. White men would not take a train across the bridge, and the Chinese sure wouldn't either. They knew. But then, too, black men wouldn't take those trains across figuring that if the whites and the Chinese thought the deal too risky, it must certainly be too risky.

Ended up all the train drivers who would take a locomotive across a Chinese designed and built wooden trestle bridge were Japanese. You can find their descendants throughout the intermountain West in small cities everywhere.

Qualifying for that job depended on how desperate you were and how much faith you had in the Buddhist promise of reincarnation. The Japanese were very desperate and very devout.

The same thing goes on today in hospitals in that little laboratory where the young woman or young man from India assays a tissue or other sample for disease. THey are as desperate and as devout as were those Japanese train drivers.