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White, Male & Broke in Los Angeles

June 11, 2015

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A reader feels like
an outsider in
his own hometown



"I speak perfect English but I can't seem to get a job in my own country! I have to know Spanish."


by Vincent Fraser
(henrymakow.com)

I'm a white male who lives in Los Angeles, Ca where I was born and raised.  I'm also half Italian on my mothers side but my last name on job applications displays my fathers "white" last name.  

I just turned 40 on June 1, 2015 and I'm completely broke and penniless.  I've been unemployed since March of 2013 when I slipped at work and dislocated my shoulder.  

I worked as a bartender at a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills, in their 5-star fine dining restaurant.  I was in the kitchen one night when one of the cooks had left an oil spill without cleaning it up.  I slipped on the spill and landed on my left shoulder.

I went straight to the ER and the doctor popped my shoulder back into its place without any painkillers. The doctor took me off work for the next three months, as I was not going to be able to do the job properly.  I applied for disability and received payments for three months while the Workers Compensation case was being processed in the courts.  I was awarded a small amount of money to pay for my shoulder. That money ran out very quickly, mainly just paying rent.

The hotel paid me less than $20K and forced me to resign and agree to never apply for work with them again because of the lawsuit. My lawyer assured me that future potential employers wouldn't be able to discriminate against me as a result of that case. I feel my lawyer mislead me. I never should have sued. 

WILLING TO WORK

I've had a job and been a responsible member of society since I was 16 scooping ice cream at Baskin Robbins, and paying my way through community college, where I attended in 1995. Affirmative Action was in full swing at this time and this was the first time I felt discriminated against by the system.  I made about 17k that year barely getting by but in order to get financial aid for school, I had to have made 16.5k or less, so I didn't qualify and eventually dropped out because I simply couldn't pay.  

That was 20 years ago!   ...And I'm still struggling, but I haven't quit.  I was forced to swallow my pride and accept government assistance.  I'm now living on General Relief and Food Stamps, desperately trying to find a job.  Every company out in Los Angeles has a high percentage of latinos (many of which do not even speak English) working as are other races. However, I feel that in Los Angeles there's some serious racism happening towards white people.  

People claim that latinos are the only people who would accept lower paying jobs, but this is simply not true.  The latinos who took those jobs years ago when the majority of others wouldn't, are in all the hiring positions of power and management now.  So guess who they're hiring, all of their friends and family.  Every hotel, restaurant, bar, or service oriented position that I interview for, about 90% of the staff is latino or women.  I've seen it with my own eyes.  The claim that there's no such thing as a poor white person is ludicrous.  

WHITE MALE SYNDROME

My parents didn't raise me with a racist bone in my body.  I speak perfect English but I can't seem to get a job in my own country!  I'm a talented Mixologist and Bartender. However most of the bars in LA only hire women.  Now, I know that I happen to work in an industry that caters to women.  

I did not realize that there was so much racism and sexism in the service industry when I began....and now I want out.  I want to start over but I don't know how or where to begin. There are scholarship funds available for almost every race or creed of people on this planet except for the "White American Scholarship Fund"...that doesn't exist...or the "American-American Born and Raised Here Scholarship Fund"...that does't exist either and if a white person such as myself even brings that point up, we get labeled a racist.

I feel that Affirmative Action is still being used in Los Angeles.  Many of the requirements for jobs in LA state that you have to be bilingual and know Spanish, just to get a job in our own country, but these people aren't required to learn English in order to get a job here in the USA?!

I have no one to talk to about this because no one can relate or even has the capacity to even try to understand.  I feel lost and thought I'd write you.  Any advice you can offer would be sincerely appreciated.
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Al Thompson's Advice

First Comment from Paul A:

I must admit that I do not feel too much sympathy for Mr. Fraser.  I have seen too much of what he describes, and I believe that his tale is accurate.  But I think he is investing more in whining about his problem than coming up with solutions.  I too worked in the restaurant business, but decided to get out before getting too old.  40 years old is not what people want to look at when they go out.  20 is more like it.  He should have known that.  Also, if he grew up ion LA, he should have known that Spanish is highly desirable.  If he didn't bother to learn it, oh well.  I did, and now half my customers speak Spanish.
 
The fact is that in America, whining about discrimination and fairness are luxuries that accord to race.  Many folks of different ethnicities do not actually have the extra five percent to offer that will get them the advantage that helps them succeed.  So they want set-asides, hand-outs, and quotas to help them get a decent living. 
 
Whites do not have those helps available to them.  Nor do they need it.  They have the extra 5 percent.  If you put in 5 percent more effort than the other guy, you will succeed.  We have proven it.   It is generally the white race that invented the computer, airplane, automobile, agricultural machinery, electronics, air conditioning, indoor plumbing, architecture, power plants, etc.  And it is generally the white race that keeps these things in operation, as well.  The white folks who did those things worked very hard.  They also did it on spec; not knowing if they would be successful or whether  they would waste their time and efforts.  They did it anyway.
 
The white folks who chose not to do those things drifted to Appalachia and similar environs, where they focused on acquiring pick-ups propped up on cinder blocks, investing in alcoholism as a hobby,  and impregnating their sisters.  You can see how that worked out.
 
It is not white privilege that makes whites successful, it is effort.  Vincent must make the effort.  He'd better quit whining because whining won't change his situation.  Other races won't care, and other whites are too busy fighting their own battles to worry about a guy who refuses to measure up.  He has a choice.  Make a plan, put in the effort, and see what he gets a year from now, or sit back, feel sorry for himself, and complain, then see what he gets a year from now.
 
He should listen to Al Thompson.  His advice is pretty good.  The only comment on that is to say that if California had not been "stolen" from Mexico, it'd be just like Baja California is today, and what Mexicans we had would be trying to get into the other States. 
 
We have to deal with what is, not what we wish could be.  So get off your butt and get busy.
 


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Comments for "White, Male & Broke in Los Angeles"

Annette said (June 12, 2015):

That story broke my heart. I wish there was some connection I had to help him. It is not taking long to find out just how compassionate other races will be towards whites when the shoe has been artificially put on the other foot.


Kevin said (June 11, 2015):

Have you considered a position at a medicinal cannabis grow-op? It's one of California's few growth industries. (no pun intended.)

I was speaking with a fellow from Orange County recently who had a significant amount of excess capacity due to his not being able to find honest, reliable help. (And he's not alone in that regard.)

It would require learning some new skills, but you're young enough to pull that off.

And if Cali gets its act together and legalizes in 2016, the CA recreational cannabis industry will dwarf anything seen so far.

Best of all you won't need to speak any Spanish. Although learning an additional language can often be beneficial, for one's mind and wallet.


Justin B said (June 11, 2015):

Why did you sue the hotel for the fault of one of the workers?

IBM recently said they would spend 300million dollars to hire "Non-whites and women." A white male is neither non-white or a woman.

Programs made to hire non-whites and women discriminate against people that aren't non-white and women.


Richard said (June 11, 2015):

I can almost relate to that, I am white, male, was employed. I wanted to get higher up in my work with the federal government. I was told under the table that do not count on that, courts and government regs told people hire females, blacks, wetbacks. So if a person was female, black, either half wet back or oriental they had the job. When my time for retirement came up, I was out. When people tell me that I am sucking the government for money. I tell them, I EARNED that money, if nothing but aggravation alone.

THANKS: keep the word out there.


MM said (June 11, 2015):

Vincent, update your resume, then go on Craigslist and Indeed every day and submit your resume to at least ten places daily. Twenty would be better. Keep at it, day after day, and in thirty days you'll have at least one job offer. Also, there are lots of call centers in LA. The pay's not great, but they will tide you over until something better comes along. Once you get a job, look for an upgrade and keep sending out resumes. These days, it doesn't cost a dime to submit a resume.


Cecil said (June 11, 2015):

This is what White Genocide looks like, It needs to be called what it is: Diversity is just a codeword for fewer white people.

You can't really move because Diversity means chasing DOWN the last white person. People are fed up. Worrying about whether you're a 'racist' misses the point.

There is ONE Problem: AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY IS WHITE GENOCIDE!!

Enough. Freedom now. Freedom from enforced, anti-white, genocidal 'diversity'.

Nobody's flooding Africa with Non-Africans and giving them free health care, affirmative action and special privileges.

Only White Countries are doing it, only White children are affected, and only White politicians are allowing it.

The West including Canada and the US cannot be defined simply by the rejection of Islam or as a collection of legal norms. It is a culture created by a specific people and it will be destroyed if that people is dispossessed. Europeans everywhere have the self-evident right to secure their homelands for themselves, without regard to the claims others make upon it.

There is no “White Privilege“ except the destructive privilege of forcing this “inevitable brown future” into ALL & ONLY White countries.


Tyron said (June 11, 2015):

Move Vince. Move right now even if it means you have to hitchhike. Find a place with a highly armed majority white population that is also strategically survivable. I say this because the perfect storm is coming. This series of events will be calculated toward the all out genocide of whites/Europeans-believers-dissenters in America.

Here are a couple places I might suggest. Tahoe, Washington State, Montana, Idaho, Utah or you can do like I have and move to Maine.

Don't fool yourself Vince. You'll never, ever get any type of a fair shake living in a multi cultural-ethnic area- EVER and if you decide to stay there you're signing your own death warrant.


Lisa (England) said (June 11, 2015):

I sympathize greatly with the man who wrote this article. I am sure his story and situation can be multiplied many thousands of times over, and the situation in Britain is much the same. It’s just so awful.

My advice would be to try and move away from bar tending and try to go into some kind of solid trade.

He should steer clear of anything to do with car mechanics and welding as there is no money in that these days.

Old-fashioned skills like plumbing, central heating maintenance and installation, perhaps a locksmith and security systems installer, that kind of thing.

He should take a distance learning course to learn the basics so he looks serious about the subject and has knowledge of the basics. Then he will be taken more seriously when he tries to get proper experience and skill training.


John said (June 11, 2015):

Hi Henry! Kudos to you for posting Vincent's story. It is the true commentary of what America has become for young White men, thanks to the Government. This is no "pundit's view"; it's reality.

ADVICE TO VINNIE: Get the "F" out of LA, by any means necessary. Find somewhere Whites are still the majority and go there, probably out of California too. As you have realized the Government favors ALL groups over White men. That is by law. All those groups realize this and take advantage of it...with glee. So you may have to go to a rural or quasi-rural environment where things are done more "local" and where locals are White men who have families and still live in a normal way. Don't give up but get the heck out of a depressing and hostile place like LA. Good luck to you.


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