Poor Response to Puerto Rico Shows Racism Is Not About Exploiting POCs but White Americans

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Look to Flint, too. Flint's water is still poison.

tabletop_joe on October 12, 2017 at 12:39 PM

Good Afternoon Charles,
I read your piece and you may have a point. The thing about Puerto Rico and Hurricane Irma is that the latter couldn't have hit the former at a worse time. Clearly, it is the worst natural disaster that that US Territory has ever experienced. No doubt, our fellow citizens down there deserve our assistance.

But Irma arriving at a time when PR has a massive debt was just awful. I can't get over the most unfortunate timing of the arrival of Irma. Wow. Just a terrible coincidence.

Stay strong Puerto Rico.

lark2 on October 12, 2017 at 12:55 PM

It's worth noting that in addition to the annual budget deficit of $693 BILLION as of June 2017 that will be piled onto the national debt of $20 TRILLION--plus the hundreds of billions needed to rebuild south Texas, the gulf shores, Florida, and Puerto Rico--Congress's most desperate priority is giving massive tax cuts to billionaires.

Psychopathic racism, insatiable greed, and malicious stupidity have destroyed this country.

Original Andrew on October 12, 2017 at 1:43 PM

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go,
Mining, mining, mining... the middle class!
But we'll mine-- the brown folks first!
If the white folks look, to those who we're gunnin'
They'll never see, it's them for whom we're comin'!
Hi ho - hi ho - hi ho!
--Trump-White & The Seven Rentiers

treacle on October 12, 2017 at 2:19 PM

@2 The reason they have that debt is horrible colonial exploitation which is rooted in a racist "we're doing them a favor" outlook. That a hurricane while we'd been doing this to them and the rest of the Caribbean since before the inception of the US doesn't make for much of a coincidence at all.

Agrippa on October 12, 2017 at 2:28 PM