Watch closely. We are witnessing history in the making. After all, it's not every day that hundreds of Latinos march on Dallas City Hall to make their voices heard.
   Yet that is what happened Sunday when hundreds of protesters gathered to register outrage over the fake drug scandal and demand that the city punish those responsible, as well as put in place safeguards so that such abuse of power never occurs again.
   The March for Justice Rally was organized by the League of United Latin American Citizens and two dozen other local organizations in the Dallas metro area. It was in reaction to the recent "not guilty" verdict in what has been the only criminal trial related to the scandal. It also was in reaction to the fact that dozens of people were illegally imprisoned in the scandal two years ago and that to date not a single person has been held accountable.
. . .  The Latino population in the United States has been dubbed the "Sleeping Giant" because of its inability to transform extraordinary population growth into political and civic power. The same goes in Dallas County, where in the 1990s the Latino population grew 110 percent to total about 40 percent of the county population. Even with those numerical gains, however, Latinos often have been criticized for being too passive and not doing enough to take control of their own destiny.
. . .  In a perfect world, there would be no need for protest. But then again, it is hard to imagine how, without it, the reformers could ever make the world a better place.