A racist joke against Puerto Ricans has created aftershocks that may shake up the election
Ahead of Donald Trump’s appearance Tuesday in the heavily Latino city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, a comedian’s racist joke about Puerto Ricans at the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally drew fresh blowback.
Ahead of Donald Trump’s appearance Tuesday in the heavily Latino city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, a comedian’s racist joke about Puerto Ricans at the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally drew fresh blowback.
In an editorial endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, Puerto Rico’s largest national newspaper, El Nuevo Día, expressed anguished outrage over the remark made Sunday at the New York rally.
"Today, all of us who love this beautiful Garden of America, and of the world, feel aching inside and our hearts are tight with rage and pain," the editorial stated.
“Trump has for years maintained a discourse of contempt and misinformation against the island that reveals an obsession and disdain for a people who do not have the power of the vote to defend themselves, since the three million American citizens who live in Puerto Rico cannot vote in the presidential elections,” the editorial stated. “However, the other five million who live in the United States, whom they also labeled as trash, can vote.”
One of those five million Puerto Rican voters is Allentown resident Efraín Dávila.
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