Hawaiian Tropic Zone To Melody Morales: “You Don’t Speak White.”
28 January 2009, 6:34 PM. By Alex Alvarez
Melody Morales, a 21-year-old former Hooters waitress described as a “Latina Lovely,” is suing boobylicious Times Square restaurant Hawaiian Tropic Zone after management denied her a position because she was, apparently, “ghetto” and had an inability to “speak white.”
Melody claims she applied 15 times and each time she was met with the same xenophobic remarks.
According to her lawsuit, Morales interviewed for a job at the restaurant with her mother, where she was informed that she would not be hired because, according to one of the managers, she was not about to “ruin his business” with her Latina accent.
Morales, who is half Puerto Rican and half Dominican, has apparently said that it is her dream to work at an establishment where she serves beer while wearing a bikini, and she does not take kindly to the management of Hawaiian Tropic Zone standing in the way of her goals. A job at that particular restaurant could have earned Morales somewhere around $500 a day. And, she maintains, she was absolutely ideal for the position: “I’m five-foot-six. I’m slim and slender. I got boobs. Ok? I was perfect for the job.”
Melody’s MySpace page (which is set to private) also contains this inspiring quote, perhaps related to her current legal battle: “Gravitate towards your goals and avoid negative people and situations,Trust no one & Do your own thinking independently!!” Get it, girl.
Her lawyer, David Smith, is suing for $500 a day ($130,000 a year) for every year she could have “reasonably been expected” to have remained employed at the restaurant.
A lawyer for Hawaiian Tropic Zone said, on behalf of the establishment: “We are proud of the many Latino and Latina employees in our diverse workforce. We are an equal opportunity employer and find this claim to be without merit.”
So, our question is… Why did the restaurant’s manager cite a reason for not hiring her other than “We don’t feel you’re a good fit for the position at this time.” Because, while it could be totally conceivable that Morales had an accent that may have been difficult for SOME customers to understand or that she may have used slang when applying which would have made her sound uneducated to some, the management no right to insult her. Especially not on the basis of ethnicity. Additionally - and excuse us if this sounds ignorant - but are her potential customers really going to be focused on her speech? Really?
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I may be dead, but Melody just gave me a boner.
a shame her myspace is private
She looks busted, I wouldnt hire her.
But I think what those crackers meant to say: newyoricans speak like SHIT.
They cant speak spanish, nor can they speak english without a disgusting accent.
Speaking broken ass ghetto english is not acceptable ANYWHERE but in the strip club or in the ghetto.
She wouldnt get a job at Goldman Sachs talking like that, why would Hawaiian Tropic do any different?
Maybe her sharpie eyebrows and matching sharpie lip liner threw them off. They’re really distracting.
“it is her dream to work at an establishment where she serves beer while wearing a bikini, and she does not take kindly to the management of Hawaiian Tropic Zone standing in the way of her goals”
jajajaja
Maybe she’s lying. Or, maybe she speaks like a retard and the company called her out.
I canNOT believe this woman is seeking attention for this- I would be so embarassed! Can you imagine applying for a job to serve ogling tourists beer in Times Square clad only in a bikini WITH YOUR MOTHER! And then being rejected because you are too much of a dumbass?! Ay,ya, yai… if that isn’t enough to make a mother proud…
I know this chick through a friend. She is an attention whore seeking her 15 minutes of fame. She IS one of those ghetto Latina’s. Sorry but I am a Puerto Rican Latina myself and have to roll my eyes at broads like this who are BORN and RAISED here and cannot absorb the language and speak it properly. She is what we call a “Hood Rat”.
She’s making this whole thing up to get herself some exposure. This chick is a fraud and is just mad that she hasnt blown up the way she wanted off of myspace. For a 21yr old, she’s not that toned and firm and is soo tacky that in one of her MySpace pics, she is wearing a pair of jeans with the tag still attached to it, as well as a picture with a stain on her tank top LMAO!
IMO there are plenty of better suited, well-well spoken Latin-American women out there and this chick needs to grow up and leave that ghetto shyt behind her
Ha ha! This bird is one of my myspace “friends” She requested me a while back. She’s alright but she isnt what I would call a “dime”. She’s been doing this for a few years now, since she was a teenager. One of those fast-ass teenage girls trying to show their goods on myspace.. SMH that her mom would actually condone this behavior
Bad photo shop job around the waist area. Her make up looks a little low-rider. I think she did not get the job because of her appearance and image, which should be legal in this case.
Well, clearly she is not only a hood rat, but mentally retarded. Who the hell would waste their time by applying to work at some crappy restaurant FIFTEEN TIMES? She’s obviously as stupid as her sharpied-on eyebrows look.
1. I know this girl she got tire of people calling her fake because there are so many site with her pictures, The questions is if that really her because that pictures is running for while now on every single site (myspace, hi5, locahookupz etc.). she is a drop out, she love attention and the only way she could get it is showing her body which is not all that for her age. She think her body speak for her because she can not speak proper English neither to have a conversation in Spanish. She is striking but not all that. Like some people, say you must be retard to be rejected so many times and keep applying like smelly bikini waitress were a huge career, may be easy money but not career with long term future because as you get ugly you will terminated. What is her goal? To embarrass her culture that they can’t speak Spanish, nor can they speak English without a disgusting accent. I am Latin but the true is that most young girls think that ghetto is cool and learn slang is a profession. You need to know how to articulate and when to articulate according to the environments where we at. Latin-American women out there take this as experiences some need to grow up and leave the ghetto behind to see your goal
So its ok for ‘ghetto’ girls to give white assholes lap dances, but when it comes to serving food or anything else besides sex, one has to learn proper english, fuck that.
Go on Melody, si se puede.
Yes, it is ok for them to give lap dances because they’re not expected to speak. But when you have a job where you’re required to speak to the customer then it doesn’t help if you can’t be understood because you speak “ghetto.” I’ve got coworkers who are ghetto and proud of it but when the phone rings their voice and tone immediately change because they know no one will take them seriously if they don’t speak proper English. It’s about professionalism, regardless if you’re wearing a suit or a bikini, and if you’re going around with a voice like Rosie Perez, well, I wouldn’t hire you either, no matter how qualified you were. No one should be purposely subjected to a sound like that.
yeah, if they said that stuff to her they totally suck and were certainly discriminating and should probably settle out of court with her.
*BUT*
more importantly: Melody … girl… you gotta go easy on that lipliner. for real. that shit is hella gross on even the prettiest faces. it makes your mouth look like an asshole.