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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

"Garbage" Puerto Rico Represents White Racist MAGA Idea of All Latinos

Didn't Donald Trump start his political career in 2016 by denouncing the ethnicity of US-born judge Gonzalo Curiel overseeing the Trump University fraud case as a "hater... Hispanic... Mexican" who is biased against "White Anglo" Trump? Trump never apologized. Instead, he lied his way out of it by claiming that his words had been "misconstrued".

Do the Latinos and Hispanics of the United States, who love Trump because he is a macho "strong" man and hate Harris because she's a woman, realize their stupidity at backing a racist who have never shied away from denigrating all immigrants, and particularly Latin American immigrants because they "poison the blood" of America and represent a danger to an all-white protestant anglo-saxon United States?

The Donald Trump rally in which Puerto Rico was called a "floating island of garbage" should be enough evidence for the Latino and Hispanic voters not to vote for Trump and his white supremacist cabal.

In the "joke" he made at the Trump rally in Madison Sqquare Garden, the racist white supremacist Anglo supporter of Trump, Tony Hinchcliffe, said: "There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico."

This was one of many revelations of the insidious below-the-radar racism of white protestant America represented by Trump against the entire population of the majority dark-skinned, indigenous natives, and Catholic Latin and South America. 

Didn't Trump refer to your brethren from Latin America massing at the border as "rapists, drug dealers, criminals"? Just like that, casting denigration on an entire people. Don't thousands of your children and  family members serve in the US military and die in disporportionate numbers to fight the wars that white racist Americans send them to? Aren't they subjected to the blackmail of risking their lives by joining the military in exchange for the green card? Aren't many of you descendants of illegal migrants into the US who eventually adjusted your status to become US citizens?

Isn't the history of the English-stock United States laced with wars against Spain and Mexcio, land grabs, invasions, coup d'etats, and backing of dictatorships? Hasn't the United States done everything it could to prevent the emergence of popular movements from the indigenous original populations of Central and South America, and to endorse autocrats of European stock who will sell your countries to big US corporations, pilfer their resources, and ruin their environments and never give a penny to the local populations?

Aren't the white anglo-saxon protestants at the core of the racist Evangelical movement trying to convert the entire south American continent from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to better dominate and control the continent? Many of you have fallen for the lies and abandoned your own heritage to become servants of the white Anglos of the north who don't care for your so-called "salvation" and only care to dominate the American continent economically and ideologically. 

Many politicians on both Democrat and Republican sides rushed to denounce the racist garbage of Trump and his supporters. Republican US congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, desperately trying to save her seat, quickly distanced herself from her own boss Trump and said she was "disgusted" by the "racist comment". She, of course, had to lie by saying on X that it did not "reflect the GOP values", and noted thousands of Puerto Ricans served in the military. The GOP embodies white supremacist racism against anyone who is not white anglo-saxon protestant. The moment Barack Obama was sworn in, the Republican leader of the US Senate said he will do everything to ensure the failure of the Obama term, simply because Obama was a mixed race African-White individual.

Worse yet: Puerto Ricans are Americans. They are not foreigners  on whom the joke could have been ignored. Puerto Ricans are Americans who have given so much to this country.

Just listen to Hinchcliffe's speech and his racist "jokes" at the Trump convention. It should tell you what Trump really thinks and believes:

- Latinos loved making babies

- Black people and watermelons: A racist trope about how former African slaves grew watermelons after the abolition of slavery, which the racist whites saw as a loss of their domination

- Palestinians are rock-throwers 

- Jews do not spend money

Other than referring to Kamala Harris as the "devil" and the "anti-Christ", in veiled appeal to religious evangelical ideas, the Trump convention also vowed to carry out a mass deportation of illegal migrants, with Trump claiming to want to "rescue" places that had been "invaded and conquered" by "vicious and bloodthirsty criminals". Ask Trump and his criminals if they plan to deport the thousands of illegal Irish migrants in New York and Boston? Or even Elon Musk himself who is an illegal migrant to the US?

Remember how Trump handled Hurricane Maria as president when the deadly storm killed nearly 3,000 people in Puerto Rico in 2017? In Marc Anthony's own words:

"I remember what Trump did and said about Puerto Rico, about our people." In the aftermath of the hurricane, Trump "blocked billions in relief while thousands died... There were thousands of families that lacked clean water and electricity, but when Trump came to the island, he launched paper towels at people and called them dirty and poor."

Anthony also said he wasn't all that surprised by the racism at the Trump convention, because Trump began his campaign in 2015 by calling Latinos criminals and rapists. "He’s told us what he’ll do. He'll separate children from their families and threatened to use the ARMY to do it. This election goes way beyond political parties".

Meanwhile, Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin told his fans, "this is what they [Trump people] think of us. I urge you to vote for Harris".

In the last seven years, there has been an exodus from Puerto Rico, whose inhabitants have moved to the mainland US including Florida and swing states such as North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Puerto Ricans are now reportedly the second largest Latino subgroup in those states.

 

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