At the March 25 Gran Marcha — an ecstatic coming-out party — I felt more like a lucky observer than an active participant, being one of the seemingly few non-Latinos there. But Monday’s dual marches up Broadway and down Wilshire had a different look, with new faces, immigrant and non-immigrant, participating this time. It seemed as if the Latinos’ successful demonstration of verve and power in March had coaxed Los Angeles’ myriad ethnic contingents out of their hideouts: They wanted to join a winning team. Over the course of the day, the hypothesis the mainstream media had established — that the immigration marches are a Latino affair and that other immigrant communities feel threatened by this show of strength and numbers — seemed to dissolve in a sea of white shirts... More >>>