Fight between Minorities

   

       After Enrique and his family move to Florida and rent an apartment, they believe the hardships have subsided and things will only get better. However, they are proven wrong when African American gangs begin to attack the Latino men because they know the Latinos "unwillingness to go to the police to report crimes for fear of being deported make them ideal targets" (251). Enrique and his friends begin to live in fear because of the continuous attacks made against them. Bullying the Latinos gives insight to the fact that although the African Americans think of the Latinos as lesser, they are also intimidated by them as well. Because more Latinos are migrating to Florida, less jobs and cheaper housing are available. The African Americans understand this, thus viewing the Latinos as a threat. They believe that they are entitled to the jobs and housing because they are "real" Americans, and the Latinos are not. The result of all of this leads them to attacking and intimidating the Latinos and telling them that they do not belong there and have no right to be there. This brings the question: was there ever a time in your life where someone viewed you as lesser and because of that, they treated you terribly? How did you deal with that? What was the end result?