i've met people like that, id say most of the were veitnamese, fresh off the boat

 

 

well yeah, i see tejanos all the time that dont know english, i mean people who can speak full english and not read it or write it.

 

never but strangely all the people who ask for a spanish speaker on the phone, speak good enough english that they dont need it

 

i dont know if its like this in other places but here we have so many illegal mexicans its not even funny. they live in the woods and stuff and then early in the morning they all converge at one central spot and contractors and other manual labor employers will drive up in their trucks and stick their hand out the window and indicate with fingers how many mexicans they need. then mexicans swarm the truck and the driver picks who he wants and they hop in the back.

 

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeres Johnny!

 

there's a corner about 10 mile's from my house where the same damn thing happen's, you'll drive by and there's like 20 of em standin there all day waitin for someone to come by and give em some work

 

yep we have that here too, theres never more than 10 of em

 

 

being that he was around 60-70 years old... that meant he shoulda been in school around the 1940'-50's.... Blacks weren't the most welcome people in alot of places during the 40-50's ..including schools, especially since you're in Texas. Probably worked small jobs, that required no real education until it got to the point where it'd be hard to start over..... Hell, quite a bit of the white population was very uneducated during the 50's.