Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated at the Puerto Rican Day Parade along Fifth Avenue on Sunday. As CBS2's Shosh Bedrosian reports, spectators say it reminds them how important it is to preserve their culture.
Of course not. They don't want to fend for themselves, yet, they want all the benefits of American citizenship without actually becoming a state and have to do all that legally entails. Which is why so many mainstream American's don't like them!
No, Puerto Rico is better as a commonwealth gaining statehood would ruin our culture and our language. Example Hawaii became a state and there main language is English. There culture is being taken away because of statehood and there rent is outrageous too expensive for some natives to afford the same would happen if PR becomes a state Spanish gone Coulture gone. No way
@@Flexnjpr1970 Not to mention the majority of native Hawaiians live outside their islands. And the ones that remain are a minority and are mostly in poverty or homeless or both.
It isn't a country. It's a U.S. territory. And why would they go there when they can practice separation and discrimination up in New York City by holding their own parade and having their own flag?
for the send reson you are in hire you family 👪 don't come from hire or you are Native American ? Puerto Rico Mexico Caribbean people from Mexico 🇲🇽 to Brazil 🇧🇷 USA 🇺🇸 n Canada 🍁 is America you family 👪 is not American
@@whatusay4980 is not Because we all citizenschip is Because we are American the real American black people n white people is not American Caribbean n Mexico to Brazil is Native American
@@whatusay4980 when Cristobal colon come to America en 1492 he found only Native American European white n black is not come from America is not American
Damn straight bruh! 👍 Teddy Roosevelt said it all the way back in 1907 when he said there can be no divided allegiance here. 'There is but room for one flag, the American flag. There is room for one language and that is the English language. And there is room for one loyalty only and that is to the American people!'
the Puerto Rican parade exists because the US federal government banned and then fined ($10,000, which is $126,000 today) and imprisoned anyone for possessing the PR flag between 1948 and 1957 (the Gag Law) until the Supreme Court ruled the law as unconstitutional and a violation of rights. First parade took place the next year in 1958 to celebrate. So getting rid of the parade is a no go.
@@Joyride37 First off, it was not the U.S. Federal Government that passed the Gag Law or banned anything. It was enacted by the Puerto Rican Legislature. It was done to squash the independence movement there. The law was repealed in 1957 after the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, NOT the U.S. Supreme Court opined that it was against the Puerto Rican constitution to enact such bans as flying territorial flags, sing patriotic songs, etc. They also sated that it was in conflict with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. However, what has any of that to do with a bunch of people of Puerto Rican ethnicity taking to the streets of New York City and trying to widen an already growing division amongst the American people? Today is Flag Day. Why aren't the Irish, the Italians, the Puerto Rican's, the Israelis, etc. ALL taking to the streets together parading with AMERICAN flags in a show of patriotism for our country?
@@retroguy9494 "There is but room for one flag, the American flag" Yes MAGA only waves the American flag... upside down or black and gray or with one blue stripe, or one red stripe or with a blue and red stripe. I'm sure I'm missing a couple more, but there's just so many American flags to keep track of
@@RoughNeckDelta There IS only ONE American flag and the U.S. Flag Code gives very specific directions on it as well as the etiquette regarding it. I vehemently disagree with these upside down flags or altering the flag. I think it shows the utmost disrespect for what the flag represents. However, ever since the 1974 Supreme Court case Spence v Washington where the Court ruled that flag desecration statutes violate the First Amendment, we have to put up with this disrespectful behavior. Who knows? Perhaps with the current court reversing out so much of what the court decided over the last 100 years like abortion and guns, they may reverse this and then Congress can make it a federal crime to desecrate the flag.
@@smrk2452 They ran out of floats! Just watched the CBS transmition on youtube with Sonny Hostin, Joe Torres...a lot of educational information...about founders...activists etc. 114 scholarships awarded to PRican students all around the states including P.R. who will all attend prestigous universities..talk about PRican contributions in the arts...military...politics etc...
