A brief message to all of the independistas out there fighting the good fight for our homeland and our culture: cursing, joking, posting memes, etc., do not in any way nullify or diminish our arguments or the righteous truth inherent to them! ✊🏼🇵🇷 1/
Neoliberal imperialists who have taken everything from us already—our land, our history, our voice, our autonomy—are trying to take the one thing we have left: the very land beneath our feet.
In this moment, anger is righteous. ✊🏼🇵🇷 2/
In this moment, anger is righteous. ✊🏼🇵🇷 2/
Don’t fall into their little game of playing the higher ground or waving us away as “emotional Latinos”—if someone came into your home, killed everyone there and sold off your property, you would be emotional, too! 3/
Don’t fall into that trap of white neoliberal “soft racism” which seeks to portray us as ignorant savages unable to govern ourselves and in need of saving by White civilization. 4/
Remind them that it was their policies and their brainwashing which suppressed—and continues to suppress—independence movements all across Latin America. They are solely at fault; offering total annexation as a remedy is an insult to our collective intelligence as Puerto Ricans!
Remind them that with reparations for all the destruction they have caused, Puerto Rico is totally sustainable and not only that, but unlike them, we have faith in our people and our nation, because we persevere in the face of a century of erasure and occupation! /end thread
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