Another cult?

"The sleeping Latino giant is finally awake," Contreras said. "This will be the largest demonstration by immigrants ever held in this country."

The movement has emerged as a loose coalition of immigrants rights groups, unions and religious and student organizations.

Organizers are eager to draw other immigrant groups, including Asians and Africans, into Monday's protest. But it is the involvement of so many previously apolitical elements of the Latino community that might prove a watershed in the political and cultural evolution of Hispanics, whose influence has lagged behind their growth into the nation's largest minority.

I sympathize with their annoyance over the proposed immigration law, but I'm afraid that they might just engage in another cult of victimhood. Not to mention the fact that demonstrations are fundamentally undemocratic. (Of course that's OK as long as you agree with them.)