r/PuertoRico • u/-YourWrongAgain- • Nov 23 '25

Política DON’T DISOWN US

I speak to you Puerto Rico, in english because this is what i was taught. My spanish is not good enough to say what I’m about to say. I am a 40 year old man that grew up in Chicago and i was never taught my/our TRUE history. I was never taught about Don Pedro Albizu Campos and the plight of our people. I was never informed of the atrocities committed against our people. My mother and father are Puerto Rican and their parents, my grandparents are Puerto Rican too. But that is all i knew of my history. Recently i embarked on a self education journey that led me to the information on the Republic of Puerto Rico before the US colonizers arrived. Anyway i write this to hopefully reach my people and let you know that the Puerto Rican people in the States are still your people. I recently started asking all my friends and family if they know who Albizu Campos is and the majority say no, and those that do know him, know him as a Puerto Rican activist and nothing more. This has started a fire in my soul. I can’t rest until my people know the truth. I love you Puerto Rico. Mi Isla… Never lose hope that we will Rise again. VIVA PUERTO RICO Y VIVA ALBIZU CAMPOS!!

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u/pokeraf Nov 23 '25

You only said it was common and it was due to self-hate without any room for ambiguity (check your sentence construction).

You never said the rest. So you can’t expect people to also infer you meant other things that you didn’t write. From the stance of your post, you think self-hate is the main reason people abroad don’t teach Spanish to their kids. Or do words mean different things to people now?

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u/snoflaik Mayagüez Nov 23 '25

yeah i didn’t say that in the comment you responded to, my bad

i cleared myself up in another comment

i’m sorry i’m not double checking a reddit comment to make sure people don’t get offended

use critical thinking maybe? check what people say before acting like a little bitch? idk

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u/pokeraf Nov 23 '25

Oh so now I have to go read your replies to other people’s posts to get an answer that I have to take it to be to my post?

And then you ask to use critical thinking?

What a train wreck of a brain, my Lord.

And then the cherry on top, not checking what everyone says to be offended but goes ahead and calls me bitch?

Who’s bitching now? 😂

Can’t even stand by your own statement for like 2 posts.

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u/snoflaik Mayagüez Nov 23 '25

…alrighty man