A comedian made racist remarks about Puerto Rico at former President Trump's rally last night. MSNBC columnist Julio Ricardo Varela joins José Díaz-Balart to react, saying that he is 'disappointed' that Puerto Ricans have become a 'joke' in American culture.
I am Puerto Rican, and I am tired. When comedian Tony Hinchcliffe joked Sunday that Puerto Rico was “a floating island of garbage” at the start of a Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, I was not surprised. I knew this was just the latest example of a risible American tradition: using “comedy” to insult Puerto Ricans. It’s raw and insulting. Much of the coverage of Hinchcliffe’s racism has been focused on next week’s presidential election.
It’s as if Puerto Ricans have never been extricated from the “West Side Story” stereotypes of the late 1950s when the Broadway smash became the defining image of Puerto Ricans for most Americans. Puerto Rican characters singing “Puerto Rico, you dirty island…” has always been wrong. Even as the musical went through some more modern revisions to clean it up a bit, the damage was already done. The prejudicial portrayal has never left the American cultural lexicon.
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