A Puerto Rican Moment …. “It Happens …. National Citizenship …. Test”!!

~~May 19, 2016~~ 

PLEASE, LEARN THE FACTS

This is a true story.

I’m baffled by the lack of knowledge about Puerto Rico’s history that many Americans display.

Puerto Rico has been in  the news a lot lately and not for good things.

The Puerto Rican financial crisis is all over the place and many facts are not known.

Puerto Ricans are American citizens!! 

When I moved to Florida, in 1999, my first landlord had no clue about Puerto Rico.

He was a rather young fellow from Florida who owned several properties.

He wondered about currency, telephone contact and mail service.

He had no clue that it was the same as the USA.

This isn’t funny anymore.

This is an insult to Puerto Ricans.

HortyRex©

“Barely a month before the United States enters World War I, President Woodrow Wilson signs the Jones-Shafroth act, granting U.S. citizenship to the inhabitants of Puerto Rico.

Located about 1,000 miles southeast of Florida – and less than half that distance from the coast of South America – Puerto Rico was ceded to the U.S. by Spain in December 1898 as part of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.

In 1900, a Congressional act created a civil government for the island; the first governor under this act, Charles H. Allen, was appointed by President William McKinley and inaugurated that May in Puerto Rico’s capital city, San Juan.”

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/puerto-ricans-become-u-s-citizens-are-recruited-for-war-effort

Simple question deserves a simple answer … that is if you know U.S. history, which many so called Americans do not.

Let see if you can get this one correct:

What is the national citizenship of a person born in Puerto Rico whose parents were both also born in Puerto Rico?

Answer:

A) Not Sure

B) Puerto Rican

C) American

~~GRAPHIC SOURCE~~ 

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We ALL are ONE!! 

To start the day …. “A Very Special Evening …. Meeting Nelson A. Denis”!!

~~October 24, 2015~~ 

“WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS”

Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony

Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico

Orlando Campus
Address: 550 N Econlockhatchee Trail, Orlando, FL 32825

Friday Oct. 23, 2015 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm

“There will be war to the death against all Puerto Ricans.”

–Puerto Rico Chief of Police, E. Francis Riggs-

When it won the Spanish-American War in 1898, the U.S. acquired Puerto Rico as a new “possession.” The American who led the invasion, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, promised “liberty” to Puerto Ricans. He also promised “prosperity” and “the advantages and blessings of enlightened civilization.”

This never occurred.

Puerto Rico was stripped of her land and natural resources by U.S. banking syndicates. By 1934, the theft was so extreme that Puerto Ricans organized an island-wide agricultural strike. In response to this strike the Yale-educated Chief of Police, whose father owned the Riggs National Bank, promised that “there will be war to the death against all Puerto Ricans.”

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/

~~ANOTHER SOURCE~~ 

https://www.facebook.com/WarAgainstAllPuertoRicans?fref=ts

…. a dream come true!

I was born and raised in Puerto Rico.

I lived all my childhood, teenage and early adult years in the Island.

It wasn’t until 1999 that I moved to the United States.

I went to a Catholic private school for all of my schooling. Needless to say, I grew up totally Americanized.

We learned about the history of the Island but nothing like I learned when I first read this book.

It took me 60 years to become fully aware of what has been done to Puerto Rico by “the master”.

Puerto Rico has never been independent .. only for a few days after freeing itself from the claws of the Spanish empire.

After the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico, along with several other nations under Spanish rule, became bounties of war and were handed over to the United States.

But I digress ….

I read the “War” book in total disbelief ….

How could the “greatest country in the world” do these things to another country under their “protection”?

I completed my reading withing three days.

I couldn’t fathom that these things occurred in my country. I was born in 1950 … the year that the “revolution” was squashed by the might of the super-power and the corruption of the local government.

Last night, I had the opportunity to meet the author and thank him personally for taking the band off my eyes and for educating me about the true story of Puerto Rico, my country.

The battled raged back in the 50’s and it’s still raging to this day.

HortyRex©

FROM THE BOOK’S JACKET

In 1950, after over 50 years of military and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the Island: assassins were sent to kill President Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burnt down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens.

Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the eyes of the controversial life of Don Pedro Albizu Campos, the president of the Nationalist Party.

… and the rest is history!! 

~~GRAPHICS SOURCE~~ 

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~~GALLERY~~

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~~La Borinqueña~~

Himno de Puerto Rico

~Published on Mar 30, 2012~

Esta versión de La Borinqueña fue interpretada por Ednita Nazario, Ruth Fernández
y Cesar Hernández en un especial de Navidad del Banco Popular de Puerto Rico.

~Himno Verdadero de Puerto Rico~

~Uploaded on Apr 15, 2008~

Himno revolucionario de Puerto Rico

This video was complied to honor the death of another great Puerto Rican Hero .. Filiberto Ojeda. The lyrics are those written to express the feelings behind the colonization of Puerto Rico at the hands of “the master”.

We ALL are ONE!! 

Thoughts for today, #162: Dry humor …. not appreciating it at all!!

~~May 21, 2015~~ 

“This one is HILARIOUS.

Thanks to Being Liberal and CJ Kalish.”

~~GRAPHIC SOURCE~~ 

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats?fref=ts

I understand the statement about Texas

Texas secession movements principally focus on the secession of Texas during the American Civil War and the activities of organizations which have existed since the 1990’s. The idea of state secession is not explicitly addressed in the United States Constitution and the issue was both publicly debated and threatened from after the Revolutionary War up until the Civil War.

Texas was a sovereign state prior to negotiation annexation with the United States.

This history has affected the state’s politics and identity from the 19th century to the present, including its standing in the Confederacy in the Civil War to education and even tourism in the 20th century.

Modern secession efforts have existed in the state at least since the 1990’s, focusing first on the Republic of Texas organization founded by Richard Lance McLaren and later on the Texas Nationalist Movement headed by Daniel Miller.

“As it appears in …. full credit/full read”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements

*The “adding of Puerto Rico” bothers me*

“There will be war to the death against all Puerto Ricans.”

–~Puerto Rico Chief of Police, E. Francis Riggs~

When it won the Spanish-American War in 1898, the U.S. acquired Puerto Rico as a new “possession.” The American who led the invasion, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, promised “liberty” to Puerto Ricans. He also promised “prosperity” and “the advantages and blessings of enlightened civilization.”

This never occurred. Puerto Rico was stripped of her land and natural resources by U.S. banking syndicates.

By 1934, the theft was so extreme that Puerto Ricans organized an island-wide agricultural strike. In response to this strike the Yale-educated Chief of Police, whose father owned the Riggs National Bank, promised that “there will be war to the death against all Puerto Ricans.”

WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS
Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony
BY NELSON A. DENIS

War Against All Puerto Ricans is a powerful, tragic, and untold history of U.S. intervention into the politics of Puerto Rico. From the U.S. invasion in 1898 to the modern day struggle for self-determination, Nelson Denis provides a panoramic history of an island once referred to by the New York Times as a significant ….

“commercial value … it would be much better for Puerto Rico to come at once under the beneficent sway of these United States than to engage in doubtful experiments at self-government.”

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/

http://waragainstallpuertoricans.com/historical-overview/

“According to the Yankees, owning one person makes you a scoundrel but owning a nation makes you a colonial benefactor.”

Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos

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AND, BY THE WAY … PUERTO RICO HAS ITS OWN FLAG

We ALL are ONE!!