Puerto Ricans

Guy looks like a school child just drew a line straight around his head with a sharpie.

First of all, Sean, that's racist against Dominicans and Puerto Ricans.

If you've ever had the misfortune of going to a Puerto Rican barber and having him shape up your beard as a white guy, let me tell you, doesn't really, doesn't turn out too well.

But interesting about Bukele, I don't know if you saw the news yesterday or today, basically four of Salvadoran, I think, some sort of technical thing, right? Got kidnapped.

I grew up in the suburbs.

of Florida and I wasn't necessarily around a lot of Puerto Ricans.

And it was in college where I was becoming an adult and really defining who I want to show up as in the world where I wanted to engage more in my Latinida.

And so music is one of the easiest ways to like really start exercising that and creating more closeness to your cultural identity.

It's effective across not only the multicultural audiences, but general market as a whole.

And so what's great, right, is that this idea that, and this is another really big misconception, is this idea that if you create creative in culture, then it's not going to relate to folks that aren't part of that culture, right? And yeah, and I want to transition real quick into what is even a bigger example of this in culture was Bad Bunny's Super Bowl in the beginning of the year.

And Bad Bunny is so unapologetically Puerto Rican.

Like, his lyrics are very Puerto Rican Spanish.

Now, there's also some breaking news that came out of Brazil, or as we say in Portuguese, Brazil.

Now, I am an American of Puerto Rican descent, but my godmother is Brazilian.

And she lived next door to us for a little bit when I was a kid and would come over a lot.

And she was always with us.

None lived there.

Matter of fact, today, still none live there, very few.

See somebody dark, he's probably a dark Puerto Rican, a dark Dominican, but he's not like a black American that has ancestry going into the south of this country or even like a Jamaican or anything like that.

You're not going to find

You go to Miami, you're going to see a lot of incredible women, but they might just, a lot of them might be Latina, you know what I'm saying? And some black women.

You go to, you know what I mean, New York, you're going to see Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, specific types.

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everything.

If Puerto Rico's colonial question was settled more than 70 years ago, why does Congress still exercise territorial authority over the island? Why can Washington establish an unelected board with substantial power over Puerto Rico's finances? And why are Puerto Ricans still appearing before the United Nations to demand a different political future? Welcome to Puerto Rico.

Open your eyes.

I'm Edwin Ortiz, president of the National Puerto Rico and Spain Initiative.

Today, we examine Washington's call to end the mandate of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, and why the Puerto Rican voices heard before that committee cannot be dismissed by pointing to Cuba.

On October 15, 2026, U.S. Representative Tammy Bruce argued that the committee had outlived its original purpose.

She criticized its continued activities, including its annual consideration of Puerto Rico, and called for ending its mandate.

But the argument deserves scrutiny, especially when Washington invokes the participation of Cuba to challenge the committee's examination of Puerto Rico.

I was at the United Nations in June.

The opposite is true.

And that's why there's cockfighting now in rural Connecticut, because Puerto Ricans.

I would bet on that.

And I like Puerto Ricans.

I don't like that aspect of Puerto Rican culture.

yeah well that's that's why they had like some beaches in canada they had to put up signs like no shitting because indians were taking dumps on the beach like that's

If shit hits the fan...

I've just accepted the fact that I'm probably going to get ripped apart by hordes of Puerto Ricans.

And that's just how my story is going to end.

That'll be how it ends for me.

So what's at risk is that we're going to lose the flavor.

We're going to lose the richness of a culture, primarily what was the Puerto Rican culture that made El Barrio because East Harlem is El Barrio.

really being able to say that, you know, in the face of all of these changes and kind of the betterment of a community, you're losing kind of the richness of what made the community what it's always been.

I couldn't imagine a bland East Harlem.