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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Years ago, 1982 or so, I needed to hire someone to caulk around the windows and doors in a hirise condo building under construction. I asked the labor foreman for the contractor to find me someone. He did.

The man was a 30 something Haitian. He worked like hell and said almost nothing. His English was barely passable.

As I reflect today, he would likely be illegal, but that was not on the radar at the time.

A black man with some authority and power and certainly with influence in the vast black community of Rivera Beach Florida by passed locals in favor of a man he knew could and would work every day.


22 posted on 01/13/2012 7:53:31 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: bert
Your observation of hard working Haitians in the US is no different than others' observation of hardworking Greeks, Italians etc.... "in the US." While true, it does NOT translate to character of their countrymen left behind.

When it comes to countries with lazy cultures, I've heard many of their immigrants observe that the hardworking ones come to the US and the lazy ones stay home.

28 posted on 01/13/2012 8:05:05 AM PST by drpix
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