The NY Giants defeated the San Francisco 49′ers to earn a spot to the Super Bowl. Two Boricuas will be playing, one for each team, The Giants and the Patriots. This article on that game is interesting because it also mentions the communities protest against ABC-TV network for that insulting joke. How do these two issues come together? Read the following interesting short article:
http://latinosports.com/featured/two-boricuas-heading-to-super-bowl-xlvi.html
Yesterday January 19th, 2012 Boricuas For A Positive Image (BFPI) held their third rally in front of the ABC studios located on 66th Street and Columbus Avenue. This rally was important because several days before ABC had cancelled the show, “Work It” that had aired an insulting scene that started this Puerto Rican backlash. The now infamous line read by Puerto Rican actor, Amaury Nolasco: “I’m Puerto Rican, I would be great at selling drugs” was not funny at all to the majority of the Puerto Rican and Latino community especially for those of us living here in the States.
ABC Cancelled the show, “Work It” and perhaps they believe that by doing so all of the protest and anger directed towards them will go away. Sorry ABC, that is not going to stop the Puerto Rican protest. While there were some sectors protesting and demanding that the show be cancelled, the Boricuas For A Positive Image have been clear from day one. We want an Apology and a Meeting with ABC to prevent this from ever occurring again. The following video say’s it all. Please come and join us again this Thursday at 5:30 to 6:30 PM.
New York’s hometown newspaper, the Daily News can also be called, “El Campeón De Los Hispanos” (Champion of the Hispanic community) which is the title that El Diario has always gone by. New York’s Puerto Rican/Latino community have been wondering why El Diario has been totally silent on this insult by ABC on the Puerto Rican community? While some point to El Diario’s association with Disney, the parent company of ABC, others just wonder how can they be so blind?
It’s apparent that all the protest that has been generated against the ABC-TV Network is revealing a lot more than the insensitivity of a major station. It has also revealed many cracks in the Puerto Rican/Latino community that will also have to be addressed in the near future. Many question, How can a community help itself when some of our institutions that should be supporting and helping us won’t? Thank You Daily News.
http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/prida-racist-jokes-laughing-matter-article-1.1004119