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Regardless of the precise terminology, the Census reported that the bulk [clarification needed] of the Puerto Rican population was white from 1899 to 2000. [18] [19] In the 2000 U.S. Census Puerto Ricans were asked to choose which racial category they self-identified with. The breakdown was follows: white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8% ...
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made few people laugh during a racist speech at Madison Square Garden where he called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" and leaned on other racist tropes during ...
MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe sparked fierce outrage after hurling insults against Latinos in a series ... about Puerto Ricans and Latinos during the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden on Oct ...
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign moved to capitalize on outrage following a comedian’s racist attempt at a joke targeted at Puerto Ricans at a rally for former President Donald Trump on ...
The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
"The findings suggested fear of crime forms part of a new 'modern racism'; that is, that local television news may contribute to the social construction of threat in relation to both minorities; television over-represents African Americans and Hispanics in crime news in relation to their share of the general population." [14]
Soto noted there are 1.2 million Puerto Ricans in Florida, 500,000 in swing state Pennsylvania and a decisive 50,000 in Georgia and North Carolina. "We have eight days left for our community to ...
Many in the Puerto Rican community said they feel the sting of the remarks, saying they especially put the focus back on the criticism Trump got for his handling of Hurricane Maria while he was ...