Dr.Barbosa unknowing or just STUPID???

[EL_BORICUA]

The more you read about Dr.Barbosa's struggle for
statehood,you got to ask yourself did he have a clue?
Should he have known?Should he have made it his business
to know?Or was he STUPID?
I say this for several reasons,you see Dr.Barbosa was
a black man at a time when blacks had no civil rights
in the U.S.A..
This was a time when blacks could be lynched for the
most trivial offence,where blacks lived in poverty
(and still do)what I'm trying to say is that the U.S.
was not that great for people of color.
Why would the good doctor want this for his compatriots?
Was he just another sellout working for his colonial
masters while holding up the dream of statehood and
equality to his poor compatriots to keep them quiet?
If he wasnt a sellout then shouldnt he have made his
to know what went on stateside,and what could happen
to him and all Puertoricans under statehood?
Maybe he was a dreamer,dreaming for statehood,the impossible
dream the dream now held by the most corrupt of Puertorican
society,"La estadidad es para los pobres" so said Romero
Barcelo a welfare state that they can steal from.
Before I go I must ask,Will statehood really help the poor?
Food for thought in 1952 Puerto Rico per capita income was
half of Mississippi the poorest state,today 50 years later
Puerto Rico still lags behind the poorest state,yes that
still is Mississippi,statehood hasnt helped the either.

[Nacionalista]

Unfortunately, Barbosa and Albizu lived on the wrong time.

I don't agree with Barbosa, but I know he was living in the wrong Puertorican era.

The same goes for Pedrito. If he was alive today, things could had been diferent in PR.

[Ecuajey]

Originally posted by Nacionalista
The same goes for Pedrito. If he was alive today, things could had been diferent in PR.

Actually, I have to disagree. You wrote that (In my opinion.) because Don Pedro didn't really get what he wanted. Though, that doesn't mean that he would of if he lived today.

I think he lived in the perfect era or a few decades ahead. It was a time that PR was completely feed up, impoverished to a greater degree, and was more supportive of any struggle that would put food on their table. (I think if Don Pedro spoke of an economic plan more than nationalism, maybe more would have followed.) That was the time of his life, maybe he could of been the José Martí of PR if he had lived in José's time, and free PR from Spain. In this day and age, after the Commonwealth and mass welfare, the people think the PPD and PNP are the ones that will put food on their tables. Sad, but true.

Let Don Pedro be the hero and role model to those who want to set PR free now, because whatever we write, we can't erase the past.

[Guaili-Cayniabon]

[i]Originally posted by El_BORICUA
Dr.Barbosa unknowing or just STUPID???

[b]BOTH!!!

Barbosa

"Trabajar y preparar a Puerto Rico para la estadidad es como prepararlo para la independencia, una vez que alcancemos esa condición, para que queremos la estadidad".

¡¡¡La Estadidad es un natimuerto que yace insepulto y apesta!!!