Principal Gene Suttle of Gainesville High School has issued a response on behalf of his administration after it was revealed that the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas would be looking into whether they discriminated against Latino students
27 September 2009
Principal Responds To ACLU’s Investigation Into Whether His School Singled Out Latinos For Talk On Sex, Gangs And Low Test Scores
By Alex Alvarez at 10:30 AM.
25 September 2009
The ACLU Wants To Know Whether Latino Students Were Singled Out For Poor Test Scores At Texas High School
By Alex Alvarez at 4:41 PM.
The American Civil Liberties Union is looking into whether teachers at Gainesville High School in Texas singled out Latino ninth graders for an assembly about low test scores. Ay, que mean!
21 September 2009
Texas Trailer Park Won’t Allow Undocumented Immigrants To Tarnish Its Image
By Alex Alvarez at 2:16 PM.
A trailer park in Grand Prairie, Texas is at the center of a struggle against undocumented immigrants. The struggle does not, unfortunately, involve lawn flamingos or Christmas lights in July.
25 June 2009
L’Oréal Sued For Refusing To Hire Non-White Models
By Alex Alvarez at 6:00 PM.
L’Oréal is has been found guilty of racial discrimination after the cosmetic giant decided that its Fructis Style hair product would only be promoted by saleswomen who were “bleu, blanc, rouge” - a coded way of saying they wanted white, French woman.
4 June 2009
Lost In Translation: Supermarket Employee Fired For Not Being Latino
By Alex Alvarez at 11:17 AM.
A white, non-Latino meat cutter claims he was fired from his job at a supermarket because he was not Latino. The employee successfully sued Compare Foods supermarket in Statesville, North Carolina for $30,000 through the EEOC. We think we’ll be seeing a lot more of this-o in the future-o.
13 May 2009
Superpecado: Wal-Mart Sued By “Wetback” Workers
By Alex Alvarez at 10:16 AM.
ust as the company is drumming up publicity over its new line of Latinocentric supermarkets for short fatties, Wal-Mart is being slapped with a lawsuit by the the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of ten Latino Sam’s Club warehouse workers. Why do people shop here?
6 May 2009
Ana Barbara Accuses Royal Caribbean Cruise Line Of Discrimination
By Alex Alvarez at 3:33 PM.
Mexican singer Ana Barbara was asked, along with 34 other Mexicans, to leave her Royal Caribbean cruise ship before it docked in Singapore. The company cited Singapore’s strong measures against the Hiney Bacon Flu as the reason for their throwing all these Mexicans overboard.
21 April 2009
Unshocking Revelations: Latinos In The South Are Frequently Discriminated Against
By Alex Alvarez at 6:00 PM.
Poor Latinos in the South are - get this - frequently victims of xenophobic discrimination, like racial profiling and unfair wages. Can you imagine? The comprehensive study conducted by a Montgomery, Alabama civil rights non-profit group surveyed 500 Latinos - legal immigrants and otherwise - from five communities across the South.
28 January 2009
Hawaiian Tropic Zone To Melody Morales: “You Don’t Speak White.”
By Alex Alvarez at 6:34 PM.
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.”
