“Understanding the Goycott can be difficult if you’re not Latino – or even if you are Latino, but not fortunate enough to be Mexican American or Mexican. That subgroup, with roots south of the border, makes up more than 60 percent of the U.S. Latino population.” …
it’s also very important to Puerto Ricans, I myself am Puerto Rican. I grew up on these products!! Mu home is now a Goya-free household!! … #BoycottGoya … #Goycott …
Robert Unanue has every right to love Donald Trump if he wants to. But with rights come responsibilities, like owning up to the consequences.
An Op-Ed piece by Ruben Navarrette Jr. for The Daily Beast.
It’s easy to have a knee-jerk opinion about what I’m calling the “Goycott.” It’s harder to fully understand the controversy.
The Goycott is the threatened boycott by Latinos of Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States.
Notice I said “Hispanic” and not “Latino.” Don Prudencio Unanue and his wife, Carolina, migrated from Spain to Puerto Rico and then to the United States, where they founded the company in Manhattan in 1936. The Spanish are considered “Hispanic” but not “Latino.” That seemingly minor detail will become important later on in this story.
Understanding the Goycott can be difficult if you’re not Latino—or even if you are Latino, but not fortunate enough to…
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Latinos who support Trump do so at their own peril.
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