Comments Thread For: Team USA Faces Puerto Rico at Cosme Behitía Coliseum

[paulf]

Why do people get upset when someone brings up PR is part of the USA? it is part of the USA. I'm seriously asking....

[pistol whip]

Hawaii isn't exactly apart of the United States. Its a seperate Island like Puerto Rico. Just we are territories 2 the US ****. And if now you saying your a "plain 'ol American", I don't ever wanna hear u talk about Mexican fighters mother ****er.

I can talk about whoever the *** I please Island rat and Hawaii is a ***ing state not a territory geography major!!! Either way your citizenship is that of the United States and your ***ing territory had two chances to be a soverighn country and twice voted to stay US citizens. You are not a seperate country the people of your ****** island have spoken!!!

[pistol whip]

Why do people get upset when someone brings up PR is part of the USA? it is part of the USA. I'm seriously asking....

Because everyother hispanic person in the Unites States can talk about their familys struggle to assimilate into the United States while Ricans are born Americans and still cant get it right. Ricans wanna be like the Cuban, Mexican, and South American immigrents who came to this country so they just like to downplay the fact that they were born US citizens. So in otherwords they do it because they wanna be like us.

[paulf]

Because everyother hispanic person in the Unites States can talk about their familys struggle to assimilate into the United States while Ricans are born Americans and still cant get it right. Ricans wanna be like the Cuban, Mexican, and South American immigrents who came to this country so they just like to downplay the fact that they were born US citizens. So in otherwords they do it because they wanna be like us.

You're saying Puerto Rican people are upset that they're born U.S. citizens? That sounds like a pretty sweet advantage in life to me. Becoming US citizens was a long process and a really big deal to my parents.

[mannygati]

u kno i want to kno whe this mex pr feud started this thing is huge if a mex losses to a pr is the worst thing in the world for mex but if they losse to anyone else is ok it was just a good fight pr wins theres allways excuses why so much hate from mex for being outnumber by mostly any race in the world we make noise in the boxing world and other sports to u hate but u kno respect u have to gives give it up dont make it a mex pr war make it two great boxers in the ring fighting it out u got champ we got champs u got chomps we got chomps u got legends we got legends let it be

[oc9979]

Yup! I always have a beef with Americans citizens trying to single themselves out from the rest of the Pac Mexican Americans included.

Did you know that an American citizen can be born any where in the world. He does not have to be an "American"

[pistol whip]

You're saying Puerto Rican people are upset that they're born U.S. citizens? That sounds like a pretty sweet advantage in life to me. Becoming US citizens was a long process and a really big deal to my parents.

Exactly! My grandfather and father worked their butts off to make a life for my family here so the last thin I would do is disrespect their efforts by saying "nah i wanna go back to Mexico".

Ricans on the other hand downplay their advantage of being born American citizens by talking about some make believe country called Puerto Rico.

[pistol whip]

Did you know that an American citizen can be born any where in the world. He does not have to be an "American"

Yeah and his parents need to be American citizens themselves for that to happen. But you're comparing apples to oranges because Puerto Rico is the United States it's not India or some completely seperate country! Puerto rico is United states soil!

[oc9979]

I can talk about whoever the *** I please Island rat and Hawaii is a ***ing state not a territory geography major!!! Either way your citizenship is that of the United States and your ***ing territory had two chances to be a soverighn country and twice voted to stay US citizens. You are not a seperate country the people of your ****** island have spoken!!!

On April 12, 1900, the Congress of the United States enacted the Foraker Act of 1900, which replaced the governing military regime in Puerto Rico with a civil form of governance. Section VII of this act created a Puerto Rican citizenship for the residents of the island. This citizenship was reaffirmed by the United States Supreme Court in 1904 by its ruling in Gonzales v. Williams. The Puerto Rican citizenship was again reaffirmed on November 18, 1997, by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court through its ruling in Miriam J. Ramirez de Ferrer v. Juan Mari Bras. Mari Bras,

[DondiNeverLeft]

Yeah and his parents need to be American citizens themselves for that to happen. But you're comparing apples to oranges because Puerto Rico is the United States it's not India or some completely seperate country! Puerto rico is United states soil!

Whatever it is, It initially was what America wanted it to be but to date Puerto Rico has chosen and Voted to be a partner, an Allie, a friend, and is United with America. So it is what it is.

Unlike other immigrants or migrants who fight like hell, run like hell, escape like hell and defect like hell from "their countries", then land on American Soil and begin to tell the world (some thru Boxingscene)
how great "their country" is.