My Two Cents

Proud Patriotic Puerto-Ricans....... Christopher Columbus arrived at Puerto Rico in 1493. He originally called the island San Juan Bautista, but thanks to the gold in the river, it was soon known as Puerto Rico, or "rich port;" and the capital city took the name San Juan. During the Spanish-American War in 1898 U.S. forces launched their invasion of Puerto Rico, the 108-mile-long, 40-mile-wide island that was one of Spain’s two principal possessions in the Caribbean. With little resistance and only seven deaths, U.S. troops under General Nelson A. Miles were able to secure the island by mid-August. After the signing of an armistice with Spain, American troops raised the U.S. flag over the island, formalizing U.S. authority over its one million inhabitants. In December, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War and officially approving the cession of Puerto Rico to the United States. The very nex...

O n the question of whether Africans "sold their own kind" into slavery: [a.k.a. "Don't get it Twisted.....Know Your History"] Stop buying into the false western curriculum narrative. It is only meant to keep driving a poisonous wedge between Africans in the diaspora, be they from the Caribbean, from America, or the UK. In America most especially, I am hard-pressed to find a greater or more bitter topic that divides African-Americans and Africans. Those who fed you this false illusion are the same ones who said let us pray when we had the land and they had the bible....you know the rest. When you opened your eyes they had the land and we had the bible. Again and again, let it be known that we fought back. Today, as the voice of the enslaved African community asserts itself in the world and lifts up the demand for reparations, the...