I love Puerto Rico. I have friends there. I used to visit as much as I could before this neuro disease got stronger but I'll be back soon.
Puerto Rico is awesome and the people are AMAZING. They should already be a state and they want to be. But the fact that they are not doesn't mean that we should forget them.
Please make this issue more known by boosting. Also, if you do not know much about Puerto Rico I urge you to look it up or better yet, travel there. If my health was better my wife and I would have already moved there but because our country refuses to let them in but abuses them in many ways we cannot due to my health.
"I come from the oldest colony in the world. We understand that it is not easy living under these colonial conditions. We have lived and survived through genocide. Our struggle is the same. We have the same enemy: the Yankee Empire, because the Zionists receive funding from the United States to commit this genocide.
"I am here talking about our country with Palestinians. They [tell me], 'I did not know that about Puerto Rico. That sounds like Palestine.' And that is true. The bombs they [Israel] have been using here were [tested] in Vieques. The weapons they have been using were probably [tested] in Vieques. There is a direct connection with our struggle."
Today in Labor History March 21, 1937: Palm Sunday, cops killed 19 unarmed men, women and children marching in a protest in Ponce, Puerto Rico. They injured another 200 civilians. The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party organized the march to commemorate the abolition of slavery in 1873 and to protest the imprisonment of the party’s leaders by the U.S. The police used Thompson submachine guns, rifles and pistols, shooting marchers in the back, during the Ponce Massacre. A commission placed the blame for the massacre on the U.S. appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Blanton Winship. However, no one, including Winship, nor any of the shooters, were ever prosecuted or punished.