Remember this: Puerto Rico is not a colony because it lacks equal rights. It is a colony because there’s extractive, imperialist intent.
Affording us equal rights via statehood will not do away with extractive institutions or imperialist intent. It will embolden both.
@julito77 the disassociation many statehooders have between their idealization and the true history and reality of the USA is gross, misleading, disingenuous, and frankly just dumb.
American liberals, please stop conflating your partisan games to make DC a state with Puerto Rico’s struggle for self determination. As if your blatant imperialism wasn’t enough, now we have to deal with you framing our struggles around your self-centered wedge issues!
Self-determination for Puerto Rico is the only progressive and morally responsible position on the Island’s future.
After over a century of colonial rule by the United States, we must let the people of Puerto Rico decide their future. @RepAOC.
This is not political football.
The Puerto Rican right wing wants to be so American so bad that blatant #votersuppression is the norm. They’re telling some that the machines aren’t scanning at the moment, to just leave your ballot there and that “they’ll take care of it”. #estadity#EleccionesPR2020#vote