{"id":40296,"date":"2015-04-08T21:51:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T01:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40296"},"modified":"2020-07-15T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:51:42","slug":"im-not-entirely-sure-why-this-is-a-surprise-to-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40296","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not entirely sure why this is a surprise to anyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long story short<\/a>: White people run Gwinnett County, despite it being \u201cthe most diverse county in the (American) Southeast.\u201d\u00a0 Apparently, this is perceived as problematic to many.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I worked for ScumTrust, ScumTrust really wanted to get their foot in the door with the mythical untapped wealth that was contained within Hispanic-American communities all across their foothold.\u00a0 It was believed that Hispanics had a very limited number of financial institutions that they could reliably trust, and that there were thousands of Hispanics that alternatively, sacked cash away in pillowcases or\u00a0plastic barrels<\/a>\u00a0buried on their properties.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, ScumTrust acquired a reputable Hispanic bank chain, and it was my department\u2019s job to produce Spanish-language versions of just about everything we already had in order to market to the wealth of Hispanic customers that they wanted.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It didn\u2019t take but a couple days after the signs rolled out to the test markets before the complaints came rolling in: El Salvadorians were offended that the dialect used in the signage was too Honduran, Puerto Ricans thought the text was \u201ctoo Mexican,\u201d and so on, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the fact that ultimately it\u2019s all Spanish, it\u2019s very much\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0Spanish, to the eye of the beholder.\u00a0 What it all really boils down to is that there\u2019s a tremendous amount of nationalism amongst Hispanic cultures, and they might not overtly\u00a0hate<\/em>\u00a0those that aren\u2019t the same as them, they certainly do not like it when some are perceived to be getting preferential treatment over the others.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t remember if it was ever truly resolved, since ScumTrust ended up giving my entire department the axe, but the last time I recall it being worked on, it was almost safer for the company to use an actual translation robot instead of actual Hispanics, as to remove all possibilities of dialect or any sort of association with one Latin American country over another.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point is, Gwinnett County is \u201crun\u201d by white people, because frankly I don\u2019t think anyone else could run the county without it stepping on\u00a0someone\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0toes.\u00a0 Racism exists, no matter how much people would like to believe that it\u2019s going away, or is being \u201csolved,\u201d because not all racism is violence, blatant discrimination, and clear segregation.\u00a0 In a way, it\u2019s actually worse, because peoples\u2019 cards aren\u2019t out in the open, and is more actions based on personal biases towards different ethnicities, which don\u2019t necessarily involve violence, but more a subtle, more complain-y manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s nice that Gwinnett is statistically the \u201cmost diverse county\u201d in the region, but the statistics\u00a0could<\/em>\u00a0be clarified a little bit better to paint a clearer picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Generalizations such as \u201cHispanic\u201d and \u201cAsian\u201d don\u2019t help in separating the Puerto Ricans from the Mexicans, the Hondurans from the Dominicans, the Koreans from the Vietnamese.<\/span><\/p>\n

Basically, if a Puerto Rican is put into a position of power, then Mexicans and Venezuelans will complain if absolutely anything at all happens that looks like a Puerto Rican business or entity is given what might look like preferential treatment.\u00a0 If a Korean person is put into a position of power, then all eyes will be on if they dare give a Korean individual or the Korean community any sort of favoritism.\u00a0 Put a black person in power of Gwinnett, and it\u2019ll be the first step towards becoming a particularly taboo Missouri town that should remain unnamed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is, as nice as it would be to think that putting diversity into political positions of power, doing so would cause a great deal of social angst and paranoia that those of the same ethnic background as those in a position of power will get preferential treatment, and react accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that whites are the solution, it\u2019s just more like, they\u2019re the medium, the group that everyone can sort of understand being there, and the group that all minorities will bitch the least about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, I don\u2019t live in Gwinnett County, so I really don\u2019t care one way or the other.\u00a0 But when I read this little snippet:<\/span><\/p>\n

In Gwinnett County today, 20 percent of all residents are Latinos, and a majority of county residents are minorities (Asians make up 11 percent and African-Americans 26 percent). That blend makes Gwinnett the most diverse county in the Southeast. Yet it is a county almost exclusively represented by white\u00a0elected<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>and appointed<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0officials.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whose fault is it\u00a0really<\/em>, that whitey keeps the ball?\u00a0 Seriously, if they don\u2019t like it, then they need to go out and vote, instead of giving reason for more of these pitiful, agenda-driven articles to be produced.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long story short: White people run Gwinnett County, despite it being \u201cthe most diverse county in the (American) Southeast.\u201d\u00a0 Apparently, this is perceived as problematic to many. When I worked for ScumTrust, ScumTrust really wanted to get their foot in the door with the mythical untapped wealth that was contained within Hispanic-American communities all across … Continue reading I\u2019m not entirely sure why this is a surprise to anyone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,8,165,89],"class_list":["post-40296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-og","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-politics","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40298,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40296\/revisions\/40298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}