I’m at a hearing of the immigration subcommittee, and the pseudo-congressman from Puerto Rico is going on about how “we” are a nation of immigrants. “We”? Puerto Rico is a foreign country that became a colony of the United States in 1898, no different from the French colony of Togo or the British colony of Uganda (or the U.S. colony of the Philippines). Congress granted residents of the island U.S. citizenship during World War I, but Puerto Ricans remain a distinct people, a distinct nation, with their own (foreign) language, their own history, their own culture. Like other remnants of late-colonialism (like Belize, Djibouti, Comoros, etc.), most Puerto Ricans don’t want independence at this point, because it would end the gravy train. But that’s not our problem — we need to end this unnatural situation and give the nation of Puerto Rico an independent state as soon as practicable
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This guy is a xenophobe, an ethno-centrist borderline racist and he so long he has a medium on which he spouts his extremist views, he is a threat to the cause. He may have the right to say whatever the hell he wants, and thank God for that, but he doesn't have a right to say whatever he wants and not be held accountable or have it go unchallenged.
ReplyDeleteFurther evidence?
http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news-politics/national-review-tries-tell-judge-sonia-sotomayor-how-pronounce-her-name
-Julio