Don Chavez

NEW YORK—A woman who wanted a job as a bikini-clad barmaid at a New York City eatery says managers rejected her because she has a “Latin accent.”

Melody Morales has sued seeking unspecified damages and saying she applied 15 times for a job at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone restaurant and bar. She says managers always denied there were any openings even though other employees said there were.

Her lawsuit says one manager told her her “Latin accent” would ruin his business. She says another told her “You don’t speak white.”

Wow, they used the old “you don’t speak white excuse on Melody? I would have went with “we can’t hire you because you have a bunch of trashy pictures all over the Internet”, or “we have a strict policy of not hiring people that sound like they’re doing a Rosie Perez imitation 24-7″.

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