Good ole New York...

One of the reasons that I love New York City is the people. yes! ALL of the people...all trillion of them, or what ever it is (eight million?)...WHY you ask??
Because they are not anywhere near as stupid as they sometimes appear to be to outsiders.

The hispanic groups in NYC watched their brethren in CHI and LA march with Mexican flags and chant "viva meh-hi-ko" for the cameras, and the New Yorkers realized what a dumb-assed thing that was to do...
So when the big march took place in NYC yesterday, they made sure to carry lots and lots of American flags, more than the ones of their many and varied native countries...Several carried home made posters saying I (heart) the USA.
THAT is how to win friends and influence people...

Of course, NYC is full of folks from Puerto Rico...which, to my mind, makes them Americans anyway...and they are significantly more sophisticated than their Mexican and banana-land cousins. The 'Ricans speak English, go to our schools, work in our stores and generally (except for the odd parade catastrophe), are normal pretty well behaved people. And they clearly are smarter.

One woman from Argentina was interviewed by the NYT. She too must be pretty sophisticated because her pronounced love the US was gushy...her point was that her children could grow up to be anything, whereas in Argentina they couldn't.

Personally, I have always found (most) Argies to be more European than plain old run-of-the-mill "hispanics"...but then, most of the run-of-the-mill hispanics I have known were from Mexico or the banana republics (not the store)...

As I see it, people form Panama should be welcomed here...they were a colony...Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, etc. are on their rown...world communism is dead (as a threat in the Central Americas), who cares if they go socialist...and Costa Rica is so on it's way to becoming what Florida was fifty years ago, than they will not be turning back to socialism of the Ortega variety...

Meanwhile...WELL DONE NEW YORK...