I hated the way Ms. Perez portrayed Puerto Ricans! We are not all ghetto - and we do speak Spanish- not Puerto Rican! The slang and regionalism is common to EVERY language - I can not speak for the uneducated persons you have run into. But our language, español is intact, our island and culture is our pride.
Puerto Rico is better off economically than any other Caribbean island! I'm glad we are not like Cuba, Dominican Republic or Haiti, free from American influence. Free for what? To live in Cuban or Domincan poverty not the American meaning of poverty, the third world meaning of poverty. We are not victims we are resilient, humble,honest and intelligent people.
Our ancestry does include strong African roots, but not "black" roots- I have nothing in common with Black Americans not the culture, food, music, values, etc.... (do the research). Besides black can be anyone from the Peruvian indigenous people to the aberigines of Australia, to Pakistan and India.
The analogy between Pedro Albizu, Che Guevarra and Martin L. King could not be more off the mark.
MLK was a great hero a true revolutionary- an honest man who saw a day when we would all be free.
Che Guevarra helped Castro create the Cuba that is today, is that why boat fulls of Cubans risk their lives to come to America and even Puerto Rico- because Che made such a better place for them?
Rosie Perez had an awesome, bright idea but she politicized it too much. We have so many things to be proud of as a people - don't bring shame to our people by victimizing us. I am not a Nuyorican and perhaps that is why I can't share your views. I am Puerto Rican, I speak Spanish, I am not a victim and I have been able to accomplish many of my goals in America. If there is a part 2 in the future - less politics more history more stories of triumph- there are many.
In all honesty the film left me feeling like a second class citizen- in need of pity. Let's not bite the victim bait- it does not help anyone. We can recognize that there were wrongs but we can not dwell in the past- we have what many other races were stripped of and even gave up willingly- our culture, our roots let's grow from it, teach our children our true history.
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I hated the way Ms. Perez portrayed Puerto Ricans! We are not all ghetto - and we do speak Spanish- not Puerto Rican! The slang and regionalism is common to EVERY language - I can not speak for the uneducated persons you have run into. But our language, español is intact, our island and culture is our pride.
Puerto Rico is better off economically than any other Caribbean island! I'm glad we are not like Cuba, Dominican Republic or Haiti, free from American influence. Free for what? To live in Cuban or Domincan poverty not the American meaning of poverty, the third world meaning of poverty. We are not victims we are resilient, humble,honest and intelligent people.
Our ancestry does include strong African roots, but not "black" roots- I have nothing in common with Black Americans not the culture, food, music, values, etc.... (do the research). Besides black can be anyone from the Peruvian indigenous people to the aberigines of Australia, to Pakistan and India.
The analogy between Pedro Albizu, Che Guevarra and Martin L. King could not be more off the mark.
MLK was a great hero a true revolutionary- an honest man who saw a day when we would all be free.
Che Guevarra helped Castro create the Cuba that is today, is that why boat fulls of Cubans risk their lives to come to America and even Puerto Rico- because Che made such a better place for them?
Rosie Perez had an awesome, bright idea but she politicized it too much. We have so many things to be proud of as a people - don't bring shame to our people by victimizing us. I am not a Nuyorican and perhaps that is why I can't share your views. I am Puerto Rican, I speak Spanish, I am not a victim and I have been able to accomplish many of my goals in America. If there is a part 2 in the future - less politics more history more stories of triumph- there are many.
In all honesty the film left me feeling like a second class citizen- in need of pity. Let's not bite the victim bait- it does not help anyone. We can recognize that there were wrongs but we can not dwell in the past- we have what many other races were stripped of and even gave up willingly- our culture, our roots let's grow from it, teach our children our true history.
Asi lo veo yo!
Damaris Maldonado
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