Get demoted if you can't speak Spanish!!!

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When I moved to Miami, I was looking for a job in Food Service Managment. I interviewed for months, and was turned down in every case because I was not 'bi lingual' in Spanish/English.
I asked an attorney, and was told that it you could NOT turn down a Hispanic because he was not fluent in English, but it WAS ok to turn me down because I was could not speak Spanish. Evidently there are some pretty complex laws at work here, that prevent discrimination against minorities or some crap like that.
Now, in Miami, being a white guy, non Hispanic, I was the minority, but in the eyes of the law, even though Miami-Dade is 75% spanish, they were still considered 'minorities'. Go figure