{"id":30973,"date":"2018-07-14T02:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T02:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30973"},"modified":"2018-07-14T02:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T02:02:48","slug":"puerto-ricans-are-americans-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30973","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Ricans are Americans, too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I honestly don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s been an uptick in the Age of Trump in episodes such as the one shown on the video below.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xJ4CnowxMMg<\/p>\n<p>But it surely gives me pause. Yes, there seems to be more of these kinds of episodes being reported these days.<\/p>\n<p>The video that has gone viral demonstrates the absolute hateful ignorance of some Americans. The guy in this video is berating a young woman for wearing a shirt that depicts the flag of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>He said she needed to wear an &#8220;American&#8221; shirt. The woman reminded the man of what is obvious to most of us: that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting back story developed as well. The police officer shown in the video didn&#8217;t respond to help the woman; he didn&#8217;t get the man to back off. He was put on leave by his department and then he resigned.<\/p>\n<p>This whole Puerto Rico issue came to a head this past summer in the wake of Hurricane Maria, which savaged the island territory. The federal government was accused of dragging its feet to help the island&#8217;s 3.5 million residents. Why the delay? Critics said the government didn&#8217;t feel the need to rush to Puerto Ricans&#8217; aid the way it did in, say, Texas and Louisiana after Hurricane Harvey.<\/p>\n<p>But the idiot shown in this video personifies hateful ignorance that cannot be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>This is a contentious time in our nation&#8217;s history. We must not allow frightening bullies to intimidate their fellow Americans.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s been an uptick in the Age of Trump in episodes such as the one shown on the video below. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xJ4CnowxMMg But it surely gives me pause. Yes, there seems to be more of these kinds of episodes being reported these days. The video that has gone viral demonstrates the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30973\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puerto Ricans are Americans, too<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,7268,7330,7331],"class_list":["post-30973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hurricane-harvey","tag-hurricane-maria","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30974,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973\/revisions\/30974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}