[LadyDoc]

Those working in restaurants etc. are not “white” people. They are the children of working class Italian, Polish, French Canadian, Irish and Slovaks, all of whom suffered prejudice for years because they were being considered “not real Americans” by bigots like you.

When I worked in the Berkshires, Jews weren’t allowed in the local country clubs, and my parter in medical practice was the token Irish Catholic allowed membership in his country club.

Are you implying my Hispanic and Asian Grandkids are not real Americans... Even though my Asian husband is a WWII vet and my son in law is a veteran of Iraq?

[Delacon]

Ladydoc, I was going to say I wouldn't dignify your asinine comments with a response but what the hell. This article has nothing to do with racism, or prejudice, or bigotry. I am quite sure in the here and now, in your elitist enclave of the Berkshires, that your Asian or Hispanic grandkids could get any job that they were qualified for, be it as a waiter or a doctor or whatever and thank god for that. This isn't to say that racism or prejudice or bigotry don't exist there or anywhere else or that it still isn't a problem. What this article is saying is that the old saw that there are job's that legal citizens(of any race or ethnicity you dingbat) aren't willing to do, they are just throwing up a straw man. The fact is that one can find legal citizens willing to do any job in this country so long as there aren't illegals there driving them out. That the reason your waiter speaks with a new england twang instead of Latin lilt has more to do with supply because there simply aren't alot of illegals up that way to drive out the locals. That you are a doctor yet still jump to the assumption that anyone who is against illegal immigration is automatically a racist bigot just goes to show that even smart people can still be ignorant.