By Roger Williams
Sunday, June 10, is New York City’s annual Puerto Rican Day parade. In the past, the parade has been marred by ugly events that would be hard to imagine at say…the http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2006/03/17/st-patricks-day-explained-to-england/.
In contrast, Puerto Rican Day has been associated with, for example, not only http://www.saveourguns.com/selfdefense0005.htm. So today is a good time to review the subject of Puerto Rico and its relationship to the United States and the National Question.
The Puerto Rican phenomenon has even made it into popular culture – sort of. The Seinfeld episode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puerto_Rican_Day
In real life, needless to say, the episode raised the ire of the usual suspects in the ethnic grievance industry. [http://www.workers.org/ww/1998/seinfeld0521.php, By Carlos Rovira, Workers World, May 21, 1998 And, again needless to say, NBC responded cravenly. It issued an apology and has never aired the episode since. In syndication, many stations declined to air the episode. The Season 9 DVD has yet to be released, so it remains to be seen if this capitulation will extend into the 21st century.
Why is the Seinfeld thing so funny? Because it reflects reality. Everyone kinda knows that it wouldn’t take much to set off Puerto Rican paraders….. and here Kramer does it in spades.
Entertainment aside, however, the episode does raise a few questions. Is it like this every day in Puerto Rico? Why do we have http://www.vdare.com/fulford/wall_st_story.htm? What is the history of Puerto Rico in relation to the US?
I mean, why are we doing this?
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