You may not have heard about this one. Puerto Ricans voted, not for the first time, to become a state. Time to do it.

I’ve seen memes about statehood for Puerto Rico in the Politics stream. Needless to say, racist reactions

just because they voted doesnt mean the us will allow it

Indeed

Hence, why activism here in the U.S. is required to make it happen

exactly

if the american people what change, they will advocate for it

To be clear though, they are Americans already. Puerto Rico has been part of the U.S. for 120+ years, and they’re all U.S. citizens at birth and have been since 1917.

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/03/06/law-made-puerto-ricans-u-s-citizens-yet-not-fully-american/ideas/essay/

While it should at this point be a simple process of delivering long-overdue full representation to 3+ million Americans that Puerto Ricans voted for (not even the first time), what we can predict is a big nasty brawl over this in Congress rooted in xenophobia and partisanship.

I’ll give you one guess which of the two Parties is prepared to fight Puerto Rican statehood tooth and nail

Fact, man, facts

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