Hey.
My name is Will and the subject line pretty much wraps it all up.

I was laid off today, the company was downsizing, and I need any extra
work you may have.

I am quite experienced with the chainsaw, and I have accumulated alot of
experience cutting down/trimming tree's.

I have done several landscaping jobs.

I am honestly open up to any kind of odd-job that you may have.

I live in North Austin, but can make it to just about anywhere in the
Austin area.

No job is too big, or too small.

Thanks everyone.

=will=

(will) wrote:

Hey.
My name is Will and the subject line pretty much wraps it all up.

I was laid off today, the company was downsizing, and I need any extra
work you may have.

I am quite experienced with the chainsaw, and I have accumulated alot of
experience cutting down/trimming tree's.

I think someone who calls himself WhiteBoy will be having a hard time
finding gardening/lanscaping work amongst all the mexicans.

-sw

Xref: 127.0.0.1 austin.gardening:19909

Hispanics is the way the folks are referred to. I am finding a large
number of Salvadorans in the trade after I spent 8 days down in San
Salvador last week.

Steve Squirtz wrote:
=

(will) wrote:
=

Hey.
My name is Will and the subject line pretty much wraps it all up.

I was laid off today, the company was downsizing, and I need any extra=

work you may have.

I am quite experienced with the chainsaw, and I have accumulated alot =
of
experience cutting down/trimming tree's.
=

I think someone who calls himself WhiteBoy will be having a hard time
finding gardening/lanscaping work amongst all the mexicans.
=

-sw

-- =

J Kolenovsky, A+, Network +, MCP
=F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/reference.html

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:52:28 +0000 (UTC),
(Victor M. Martinez) wrote:

animaux wrote:
More polite would be "Latino."

I personally really dislike racial labels.

"Latino" is just a vague "country of origin" label. Too broad to
offer any real usefulness. I have friends I would say are Hondurans
and would not feel that use was derogatory - nor would they but I will
ask them. I would never refer to them as Latinos - just doesn't sound
right.

The human brain has this overwhelming urge to classify everything and
put various labels on it. Just look at the system for naming plants.

Rusty Mase

After watching this thread, I wonder if Will and Steve put each other up
to this as a ploy. =



will wrote:
=

Hey.
My name is Will and the subject line pretty much wraps it all up.
=

I was laid off today, the company was downsizing, and I need any extra
work you may have.
=

I am quite experienced with the chainsaw, and I have accumulated alot o=
f
experience cutting down/trimming tree's.
=

I have done several landscaping jobs.
=

I am honestly open up to any kind of odd-job that you may have.
=

I live in North Austin, but can make it to just about anywhere in the
Austin area.
=

No job is too big, or too small.
=

Thanks everyone.
=

=3Dwill=3D

-- =

J Kolenovsky, A+, Network +, MCP
=F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/reference.html

Yes, this group is good. Will and Steve have been mysteriously quiet,
though. If it was a ploy, it was a good one. What about it, guys? Will,
did you find work, yet?

animaux wrote:
=

It really didn't work. The people in this newsgroup all get along well=
=2E
=

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:41:42 -0600, J Kolenovsky wr=
ote:
=

After watching this thread, I wonder if Will and Steve put each other =
up
to this as a ploy.
-- =

J Kolenovsky, A+, Network +, MCP
=F4=BF=F4 - http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/reference.html

Just goes to illustrate something important: words, themselves, are not vessels of
meaning.

animaux wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:25:15 +0000 (UTC), (Victor M.
Martinez) wrote:

animaux wrote:
Well you should know by now there are differences and I don't find it
unreasonable to say someone is black or latino. My mother is married to a black
man, we are white. It's obvious.

Obvious you say? What do you call a brazilian black man then? Black? Latino?
Hispanic? What about a cuban mulato? A caucasian argentinian? A mestizo
mexican? An amerindian peruvian?
What do the words mean anyway? Latino derives from latin, so all folks who
speak a language derived from latin should be called latinos. That includes
the french and the italian, btw. Hispanic comes from Spain, so I guess folks
from spain should be called hispanic too, but not brazilians since they were
a portuguese colony.
To me, a native spanish speaker, the word "hispano" means from Spain, so it
does not apply to me. Latino brings to mind a more "tropical" culture than
mine and I don't identify with the label at all. If you have to put a label
on me, call me mexican, which is what I am. But I still dislike "racial"
labels. Anybody read that article in the Lancet (or was it the JAMA?) about
the fact that there is no such thing as human races from a genetic standpoint?

Cheers.

ooops, hot button. Never mind.

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:25:15 +0000 (UTC), (Victor M.
Martinez) wrote:
Obvious you say? What do you call a brazilian black man then? Black? Latino?
Hispanic? What about a cuban mulato? A caucasian argentinian? A mestizo
mexican? An amerindian peruvian?

Whatever they want to be called?

Personally, I don't much like anglo or anglo-saxon. I don't think I'm
either one. I think I look more celtic. I wish I actually knew what I
was. I suppose that would make things easier. "White" just seems so
boring

People are always going to try to find names for groups even though
those names never seem to fit and quite often the people in the groups
don't fit, either. Kinda silly, but there it is.

--
Suzanne http://cshardie.tripod.com
If you have come to help me you are wasting your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine,
then let us work together.
-Aboriginal Activist Sister, quoted by Northland Poster Collective.