the only US citizens Americans should be taking protesting cues from are PUERTORRIQUEÑOS.
why? Puerto Rico is bound, muzzled & knee-capped by the USA constitution YET our people took to the streets, IN THE ISLAND & WORLDWIDE, and changed the government in 12 days of non-stop protests.
PROTESTS WORK.
so much so, USA media wants you to forget those 12 days of protests when writing of the global unrests of 2019.
WE ARE MORE AND WE HAVE NO FEAR;
somos más y no tenemos miedo.
i take great offense when i have gringos come with their cowardly gringoladas to tell me there is nothing they can do about changing the fucked up policies of their gringo administration.
MY FATHER DIDN'T SURVIVED USA' GENOCIDAL POLICIES IN PUERTO RICO FOR YOU TO TELL ME THERE IS NO #GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN #GAZA.
YOU DO NOT GET TO DOWNPLAY DEMOCRATS COMPLICITY IN #GENOCIDE, when Native Americans and African Americans have the CVS of receipts compared to Puerto Rican's laundry list of injustices accumulated since 1898.
you do not get to tell a Puerto Rican, and an afroboricua one at that —regardless of our scholarly background— that what we are seeing is no #genocide or that there is nothing poor old Joe Biden can do about it.
I REMEMBER WHAT YOUR DEMOCRATS DID TO DON PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS
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SOMOS MÁS Y NO TENEMOS MIEDO became the de facto slogan of that summer of 2019.
WE ARE MORE AND HAVE NO FEAR.
it's ok to fear the unknown of protesting the very government and political party that you support.
BUT THAT'S WHAT CITIZENS IN A DEMOCRACY DO!!!
look around and count all the things billionaires have paid their subservient politicians to deny us: health care, food, housing, mass transportation, free k-PhD education, civil rights, human rights, so they can make their war money
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@blogdiva I have a question based on dates. Were these "Democrats" the same that left the Democratic party and joined the GOP, the folks that were labeled the Dixiecrats? This switch happened in the 1960s or are we ignoring the historical shake up of the two parties? I'm curious.
i do know that @bitterseeds it still was under Harry S. Truman.
if you do not know of all the eugenics experiments USGOV has conducted on Native American, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and the on-going genocidal concentration camps they keep at their borders with Black & Brown peoples and the fact that the 13th amendment of their so-called abolition of slavery has not one but SEVERAL loopholes, please go read-up on that.
@blogdiva Thank you very much for posting this thread. Also for including your personal & family connection to important issues - real life experience stories matter a lot.
I'm urging my followers to please take some time to read through your threaded post.
at this point? most people have NOT voted in most referendums as a form of protest.
USA needs to pay us reparations for many atrocities, including ecocide and continuing the LIE that WE TAINOS do not exist; doing so deprive us from Native American and Originarios protections under Spanish, USA and International law.
that "statehood" wouldn't change the reality of USA's genocidal and colonialist project in our island.
before status, what most Puerto Ricans want now is payback.
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