WEST PALM BEACH — Demonstrators briefly interrupted the Green Market on Saturday with chants in support of immigrant rights and respect for all. The reactions were mixed — a thumbs-up here and a middle finger there — but the most common expression worn was one of indifference.
“Indifference is not an answer to the problems we’re facing in this country,” said 74-year-old Jim Sugarman, whose father fled to America to escape anti-Jewish pogroms in Kyiv decades earlier.
He and about 50 others marched from the Rosarian Academy on North Flagler Drive to the Meyer Amphitheater and back, weaving through crowds of Green Market shoppers with megaphones and homemade signs in hand. Indifference, the marchers said, threatens the rights of everyone, immigrant or otherwise…