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Your reaction Sonambulo speaks of your lack of understanding of Puerto Rico's national identity. English and assimilation have been tried for a long, long time on the Puerto Ricans. The island residing ones still speak Spanish---despite it all. Why?
Why do they keep speaking Spanish? That is the key to our national identity. Miranda is right. You don't get that. You want what? Puerto Rico to be the 51st state? Why?
Why should we give up wanting an independent nation that reflects who we are inside anyway? The problem is living with contradiction. Being Latin American, speaking Spanish---our history----and wanting something from the Colonizer nation that the colonizer nation refuses to give us---equality, justice and power. I have never been an elitist. I hate ignorance. I do. I hate people who never get an education yet want to say they know and can say something with substance. You can't. If one is ignorant one can't say anything of substance. And I am not talking about self-taught and directed human beings. I am talking about plain ignorant people. People who never made the effort at all to get a real education. Yet, they want to tell others that something is right or wrong. That is not elitist. That is the truth. If you never study and EXPERIENCE Puerto Rican society and history yet want to say this or that....it won't wash.
I refuse to think your way Sonambulo. If you ask Miranda he thinks that Puerto Rico has never been in Puerto Ricans hands anyway. I happen to believe that Puerto Ricans can and will affect their own destiny. But, Miranda is more analytical than you are on many issues. He is. One of them is realizing that colonized people are never thought of as agents of creativity, change and activism. That is the horror of many horrors of being in a colonial relationship. And no doubt about it---Puerto Rico is in the colonial relationship. And the USA is being an Empire and totally unfair. ACCEPT it Sonambulo----say---The United States of America (whom I identify with as Sonambulo living in the Garden State) has been totally unfair to Puerto Rico. Say that one hundred times and repeat it...until you get what that means. You still are in some fantasy world about it. You are. Sorry to tell you the truth to your face. But that is what debate is about too.
The new daily affirmative sentence....The United States of America has been totally unfair to Puerto Rico. Now that you accept that.....what does that mean? How does one cope with unfairness and lack of justice and inequality? By giving in? Or by fighting and activism? You tell me Sonambulo. You tell me how one copes with injustice and unfainess? By giving up? Submitting to the higher power and authority? Or by digging down deep and going for 'struggle for existence' that Darwin talks about. Dime. What is your take on unfair and unjust treatment? The Puerto Ricans who are pro-statehood are one of either three things: naive, self-interested, or ignorant. Or all three. Lol. One has to generate debate in this forum. Ave Maria....the bullcrap post is all yours in my opinion.
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