Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Californian for the past two decades, I must take exception to Miss Grossman's recent editorial on Mexican immigrant workers in California. Miss Grossman paints a bleak picture of opulent Californians living off the fruits of Mexican "slave" labor...
Slave labor. On every ranch, in every spacious home, in every garden, by every poolside, they are there. Mexican workers to pick up after the children, the horses, the fallen oranges. Mexican workers to keep the dirt away from the million-dollar lifestyle that these Californians have bought into...
Whenever I leaned back before a large lunch, with remote control to the VCR in hand and a view of the grassy corral out the window, I remembered to look in the hallway. Sure enough the Mexican cleaning woman was lurking in the shadows, perched on a set of drawers and gobbling down her bag lunch. She would never accept my invitation to join me at the table, she only smiled...
Everyone I spoke with had a Mexican maid and gardner. Most people dealt with Mexicans only in their capacity as hired hands. And so the Mexicans on the street were regarded as a subservient lower class...
...STILL ENJOYED rambling around the ranch homes and orange groves. But now I also noticed the ever-present Mexican workers who were tidying up the yard and picking the fruit. Life wouldn't be so relaxed for the lucky ranch dwellers without the sweat of their hired labor. They probably wouldn't even live there without the Mexicans to pick up after them...