How the "boycott" went in our neighborhood....

[msongs]

I work in an 80% hispanic (their preferred term is Mexican) area, providing services to immigrants and citizens. the community
made it clear they prefer us to be available today as usual.
near us is a strip mall shop center with about 25 small businesses and several chains. Open were Jack in the Box,
Rite Aid (a drug store), and a mom and pop pizza place, all of which were PACKED with local people.
Everything else was closed. The most common sign in windows was "closed for inventory", followed by "closed due to
family emergency". There were NO closed in solidarity and brotherhood with immigrants, or anything else like that.

the stores are hispanic owned, hispanic staffed, and the customers are overwhelmingly hispanic. Might as well have been
Xmas day.

several shop owners said they closed due to threats from people looking for open businesses, and those people were going
to stage actions against any businesses that stayed open.

local elementary school had some loss of attendance but not much.

Tuesday will probably be back to work as usual around this neighborhood.

as El Vez sings, Viva Las Vegas!


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[Codeine]

1. I'm a grocer

in a predominately Hispanic area and we were packed; busy as heck. All of my employees, Latino and otherwise, showed up like always, and all our normal customers were in.

In our area of SoCal it seems the boycott was a bit of a flop.