"Nothing gringo� is immigrants’ appeal to shoppers for action on Monday. That’s a good date selection — sort of reminiscent of May Day in the Soviet Union — and equally counterproductive, as many of us can still recall.
“The Great American Boycott� is meant to point out to us Americans the importance of the boycotters to the U.S. economy, but it seems to this writer that those who are most vulnerable stand to suffer more by their actions than those being ostracized.
I agree with Larry Rubin of the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, who states that “boycotting would [only] hurt corporations that are backing what [some] people want done in the immigration bill.� In place of the boycott, he encouraged those who have relatives in the United States to urge them to write their lawmakers in support of comprehensive immigration support.
It’s sort of mindful of the story of the ancient “foo bird,� who flew around in ever increasingly smaller circles until it simply disappeared up its own derriere.
If these mental giants are looking for favorable results, I doubt they'll find it to their advantage to take the route they espouse so vocally. It seems to me Larry Rubin’s plan could be more productive than biting the hand that feeds you.
— Monroe Karl Deutsch,
Thousand Oaks
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