Toñita appeared at the #SuperBowlLX alongside Bad Bunny. She is the owner of Brooklyn’s Caribbean Social Club, one of the last surviving Puerto Rican social clubs in the city, and She is such an iconic figure in New York that there is a celebration in her honor every June 22nd
I think this is the cruelest thing the Trump administration has ever done. To kidnap innocent survivors of the genocide that have escaped the most traumatic nightmare of their lives and force them back into it. Its like putting Holocaust survivors back in the camps.
Fun fact, it’s estimated to cost between $11-$30 billion to end homelessness in America. Our lawmakers still haven’t found the funds for that but they’re funneling $75 billion to ICE’s budget.
Impossible to fathom not just the personal possessions and memories destroyed with these streets, but the amount of history and art lost forever from one of the oldest areas of civilization. Pieces of our story as a human species erased in the name of settler colonialism