Post by Radrook Admin on Mar 29, 2022 5:43:57 GMT -5
Everyone is Afraid of Puerto Ricans?
Just recently during one of his standup comedy performances the African American comedian Chris Rock said that everyone is afraid of Blacks and Puerto Ricans. Well, that announcement came as a shock to me since I know it to be untrue. So I responded in the following way:
Everyone is afraid of Puerto Ricans? Really? We are feared? Gee! I grew up in an Irish Italian neighborhood and they sure as hell were not scared of us Puerto Ricans. In fact, all they did was look for ways to get into fights with us even though were were minding our own business. Afro Americans weren't scared of us either. They just behaved as if we didn't exist.
That was back in the 1960's in Newark New Jersey. A film made back then doesn't show people fearing us Puerto Ricans. It shows them hating us and trying to fight us instead. West Side Story it is called. I personally as a Puerto Rican feared being attacked by Irish and Italians and was hunted like a wild animal by two of them an barely escaped. In stark contrast, the Italians and the Irish were not too eager to get belligerently involved with African Americans. Wish they would have feared us though. That way we would have been left in peace.
Last Edit: Mar 29, 2022 5:45:34 GMT -5 by Radrook Admin
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