Any updates?

Thanks.

To: Larry Whitten, WHITTEN INN HOTELS

Dear Mr. Whitten:

We are saddened by the news that you have chosen to mistreat your Latino employees for being who and what they are and will always be, like all the rest of the over 45 million-plus of us Latinas and Latinos in our great nation.

We take your discriminatory employment policies and practices, as a direct affront or insult to our great heritage and contributions to our multicultural U.S. society. I also served in the Marine Corps, and am a disabled Vietnam veteran who served our country proudly like so many other Latinas and Latinos, but we did not serve in anticipation of being treated like second-class citizens by you or anyone else just because of who and what we are and will always be, as were our ancestors long before your ancestors arrived here.

We are very proud of our great histories, cultures, traditions and mother-tongue; and this will always be the case regardless of citizens like yourself who demand we sacrifice this rich heritage, in order to fit into your Anglo or Eurocentric definition of what it means to be “a true American.” First and foremost, we are Native Americans or Indians, and you certainly can’t take that away from us — ever.

The U.S. is not England nor is it Europe. Your hotels should adapt to their environments, not the other way around.

We have called for a global boycott of WHITTEN INN HOTELS that will only end, if you publicly apologize to the employees directly effected by your discriminatory policies and practices; and to all the 45 million-plus Latinas and Latinos in this great multicultural nation of ours who are appalled by your disrespect toward all of us and our ancestors.

Sincerely,

Ruben Botello, JD
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