The Firing of Eva

Yes, I was not involved in the firing of Eva, the Puerto Rican reporter at our small community weekly who then returned to her homeland and immediately got a job working for the Associated Press. Someone who was somewhat involved in the firing said that it seemed amazing considering that she cannot really read and write English, her prose shapeless, without form and void, or something like that. Our staff members did not know how that could happen but sometimes these larger media organization have their ethnic quotas to fill and if you are the only thing in a 100-mile radius who can sort of speak English, well, lucky you. But anyway, most of us take our opportunities where we find them, sometimes not realizing all of the strings attached, the booby traps hidden there, until much later. Things get sticky but, well, the alternative is to not have a job, to be unemployed and unable to pay the bills, and so often we have no choice but to trustingly allow ourselves to be led to the slaughter because, well, that's what we thought we were supposed to do for some unknown reason