This is our sad reality …
‘We certainly appreciate the release of Oscar López Rivera. We thank Obama for that. But for nine million Puerto Ricans, the Obama presidency was much ado about nothing.’
At long last, after 35 years, Pres. Obama finally commuted the sentence of Oscar López Rivera. The president is to be commended for this. But for eight years, Obama misled the entire Puerto Rican community. He used them as a doormat.
Obama betrayed every Puerto Rican…not once, not twice, but FOUR times in eight years. Here is how…
#1…THE U.S. CENSUS
In the same week that Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, he also nominated Robert Groves to direct the US Census. The hoopla surrounding Sonia’s nomination enabled Groves to sail through the US Senate confirmation hearings – virtually undetected – and abandon statistical sampling as the prevailing census methodology (see page 15 of the transcript).
In other words, the appointment of Sotomayor served as a cover for the ultimate denial of hundreds of billions of federal dollars from Latino neighborhoods, and Latino school…
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