September 29, 2005

Do Connecticut McDonald's discriminate in favor of Hispanics?

The Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control did a bit of a study and determined that most employees of McDonalds in America's drive-throughest state are Hispanic. The study is available at their website in a PDF file, and it's not exactly an academic study, although it appears they visited all or almost all the Mickey D's in the state, many in one long day. (Here's a similar feat involving CT's county highpoints). They counted the people working there, and they wonder whether some of them are illegal aliens. In New Haven and Fairfield counties, almost all the employees are Hispanic.

A news report is here:

But activists say his research methods were unsound and motivated by racism. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has rejected Streitz's call for an investigation, saying the study is not reliable or relevant.

Obviously, the race baiting can and should be ignored. As for whether the study is unsound, I personally don't consider it an academic-level study. Also, there's the question of whether all the workers are Hispanic because managers want that, or because they are the only applicants.

That would need to be determined through other means, and I get the impression that Blumenthal is too PC to conduct such an investigation.

For that, I'd suggest contacting that state's Senators or Reps and encourage them to look into this.

Posted to Immigration2005b at September 29, 2005 09:43 PM

Comments

It's also probably true that since these jobs starting going to uneducated, often actually or functionally illiterate (even in their own spoken language) Hispanics -- e.g. even to work the register they need only very primitive English and to be able to punch pictures of items and then the total cost is displayed -- most American kids don't want anything to do with these jobs. We're talking adolescents here, (overly) concerned about their image, many of whom don't really, absolutely need to work anyway. And often there are alternative jobs.

Posted by: eh at September 30, 2005 12:23 AM

This group couldn't think of anything better to do.

Posted by: Ralph at September 30, 2005 05:48 AM

This is an example of someone with absolutely nothing to do.

Posted by: Slim at September 30, 2005 06:29 PM