Daily News | Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. This is a recording.
You should have been yelling “Stop!” almost as soon as you started to read that sentence because there is at least one high-profile incident each year in which our fellow Americans — yes,— reveal their ignorance of the island’s status as a commonwealth of the United States.
“Do you know that my driver’s license in Puerto Rico is as valid as a Louisiana driver’s license?” the man, Humberto Marchand, a retired federal law enforcement officer, told the Hertz employeeIf I were a betting woman, I’d say no — and that’s not just a hunch: A 2017 poll showed thatis such a passive word in that context, isn’t it? It almost suggests that this kind of persistent ignorance and erasure isn’t intentional or part of a systemic structure of disrespect and neglect that started long...
Facts like how the island was first pilfered and then ill-served by the federal government, and by extension other entities as well. The message: If the government doesn’t care about Puerto Rico, why should anyone else?
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