Puerto Ricans must address America’s race and class divide

“As Puerto Ricans were glued to their TV’s watching not only unimaginable death and destruction from Katrina, they were also living the American race and class issue. In America, the poor and black are to be neither seen nor heard. Race and racism are “messy” so we talk about other things-we play the “who’s to blame game”. Money talks, also. In America, those at the bottom of the totem pole get the shortest shrift. In America being black and poor is a deadly combination.

Some voices are saying that it was no accident that the thousands of human beings crammed into a filthy, flooded, and perilous Louisiana Superdome were the poor black citizens of New Orleans. Poor and black citizens of New Orleans were left to bake and perhaps die on their own roof.”

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