The following link is from Latino rebels that also have been promoting the issue of the insult that ABC has made against the Puerto Rican/Latino community. We will continue to reach out to all sectors of our community until we make ABC “PAY ATTENTION.” We are not going away, just getting stronger.
http://raulcolon.net/papa-johns-apologized-abc_dotcom-decides-to-ignore-the-issue/
The major news this morning for many Latinos in East Haven, CT was to hear that the FBI arrested a sergeant, and several police officers on charges of conspiracy, false arrests, excessive force and obstruction of justice. Apparently this East Haven community has a growing number of Latinos that went from approximately 200 in 2000 to over 3000 in the last census of 2010.
This number, though small seems to be too much for many in this community that prides itself as being a small tight knit community. Therefore, this growing Latino population is not welcomed and many law enforcement officials perhaps with higher executive support have been making life for these hard working Latinos miserable.
When mayor, Joseph Maturo Jr. was interviewed by a local reporter and asked what his administration was doing about this problem and the lack of Latinos in any of the towns departments he said: Well on second thought you should hear this yourself because when I write it I can’t help but get angry and this year of the Dragon I am working on controlling my emotions.
When people question why are the Boricuas/Latinos For A Positive Image still protesting against ABC – TV every Thursday for the insulting joke: “I’m Puerto Rican, I would be great at selling drugs” they need to look at this video clip and see that many individuals in this country already have a negative image of us, thus insulting jokes aired to a national audience against our community only fosters more anger and stereotypes that are untrue and puts our community in a very vulnerable situation. That’s why it’s time to say: Basta Ya!
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
The 3rd protest against ABC TV. Approximately 200 protesters showed up on 66th & Columbus Ave. to let ABC know we want an apology and meeting.