she black tho. alexandria ocasio-cortez should be happy.Damn 8-1. Kentanji Jackson already falling in line
Puerto Ricans are officially second class citizens.
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at this point it's sport. barbershop conspiracy talk gone mainstream. everybody wanna be in the conversation but don't actually give a fuck about what they saying.
Social media generation. Life is an anonymous comment section, accountability is not a thing anymore.
lmaoTo where?
see.
knee jerk shit with not even so much as a DESIRE to think critically.
shit wild man.
There's a lot of reading up to do on this case... so I could be wrong... but when you say this was passed under a democratic administration with a majority controlled congress... which administration are you talking about?
From what I'm seeing, the government sued a guy named Vaello Madero in 2016 to get back SSI overpayment, but I don't think any legislation was passed at that time. They (gov and the other side) seem to be disputing SSI rules that were already in place.
He was living in NYC, but had some strokes and started receiving SSI benefits, but then moved back to PR. The checks kept on going to his bank account but the gov found out he had moved to PR and tried to stop the money because (and this is where my head aches stopped me from reading up more on the law... help Colin!).... the type of benefit he was receiving (they say) is only for residents of the 50 states.
From what I'm seeing, the government sued a guy named Vaello Madero in 2016 to get back SSI overpayment, but I don't think any legislation was passed at that time. They (gov and the other side) seem to be disputing SSI rules that were already in place.
He was living in NYC, but had some strokes and started receiving SSI benefits, but then moved back to PR. The checks kept on going to his bank account but the gov found out he had moved to PR and tried to stop the money because (and this is where my head aches stopped me from reading up more on the law... help Colin!).... the type of benefit he was receiving (they say) is only for residents of the 50 states.
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I showed the Trump vid as a representation of the US on how it treats Puerto Rico. If there was a gif of the doctor experimenting on Puerto Ricans back in the day, I would have used that instead.
Lmbaooo how stupid is this cac?
Time for independence and then go the Cuban route.....
'cause the US ain't loyal......
'cause the US ain't loyal......
Always had a thing for Puerto Rican women. Since watching Rosie Perez in do the right thing.
Ask any Dominican chick and she'll call them second class too... and as far as she's concerned... it's been official
sidebar: had a Dominican girlfriend when I first came on the fire department... when I wanted to piss her off, all I had to do was call her a Puerto Rican
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Bruh you're literally on the internet where information can EASILY be found and you still decided to type that and tap "post reply"Damn 8-1. Kentanji Jackson already falling in line
Man you ain't even lying... Already know that's what's coming next... I'll give it a test before PR is deemed a travel warning by crackas
Aren’t Puerto Ricans white? That’s what most of them claim from what I’ve researched?
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I fill you
And there is a whole lot of this......and ppl swear they are in the right and are completely off.
see this is what's wrong right here
paws
All the Puerto Ricans I have know haven't thought of themselves as white. Not by a long shot... I know there are some, but it ain't like Cubans or some Dominicans.
WHERE THE FUCK is GWAM???
Is it near Guam??? ... I J S...
House Democrats Introduce Draft Proposal To Start Decolonizing Puerto Rico
House Democrats introduced a draft proposal called the Puerto Rico Status Act which would allow Puerto Ricans to vote on the island's political status. If passed, the bill would hold Congress to any binding result that Puerto Ricans move forward, including U.S. statehood.
House Democrats introduced a draft proposal called the Puerto Rico Status Act which would allow Puerto Ricans to vote on the island's political status. If passed, the bill would hold Congress to any binding result that Puerto Ricans move forward, including U.S. statehood.
100% of Puerto Ricans I’ve ever come across have always claimed Black or Taino blood.
I’ve never heard any Boricuas, including the fair skinned ones, classify as white.
Why Some Black Puerto Ricans Choose ‘White’ on the Census (Published 2020)
The island has a long history of encouraging residents to identify as white, but there are growing efforts to raise awareness about racism.
2020
"More than three-quarters of Puerto Ricans identified as white on the last census, even though much of the population on the island has roots in Africa. That number is down from 80 percent 20 years ago, but activists and demographers say it is still inaccurate and they are working to get more Puerto Ricans of African descent to identify as black on the next census in an effort to draw attention to the island’s racial disparities.
All residents of Puerto Rico can select “Yes, Puerto Rican” on the census to indicate their Hispanic origin. But when it comes to race, residents must choose among “white,” “black,” “American Indian,” multiple options for Asian heritage, or they can write something in. Most Puerto Ricans choose “white.
But the Trump administration’s slow response after Hurricane Maria and other natural disasters has made many Puerto Ricans reconsider their decision to identify as white Americans, said Kimberly Figueroa Calderón, a member of Colectivo Ilé, a coalition of Puerto Rican educators and organizers who are campaigning for more Puerto Ricans to identify as black on the 2020 census. “We are not the ‘citizens’ that we think we are,” she said.
After Hurricane Maria, Maricruz Rivera-Clemente, the founder of Corporación Piñones se Integra, said it took longer for electricity to be restored in Loíza than in the capital, San Juan, and other parts of the island. “We have the same electrical connection, the same electrical source as Isla Verde,” Ms. Rivera-Clemente said, referring to a popular tourist area near San Juan. “We had no electricity until two months later.”
What you mean?? It affects all if them. Nobody gets anything. The other territories play their role, PR trying to move up to wife status when they know they are just a side piece with limited benefits.This sends a message to other US territories. Guam and USVI are probably thinking really hard about what this means for them.
Bingo. Don't get it twisted black people."More than three-quarters of Puerto Ricans identified as white on the last census, even though much of the population on the island has roots in Africa.Why Some Black Puerto Ricans Choose ‘White’ on the Census (Published 2020)
The island has a long history of encouraging residents to identify as white, but there are growing efforts to raise awareness about racism.www.nytimes.com
Why Some Black Puerto Ricans Choose ‘White’ on the Census (Published 2020)
The island has a long history of encouraging residents to identify as white, but there are growing efforts to raise awareness about racism.
2020
"More than three-quarters of Puerto Ricans identified as white on the last census, even though much of the population on the island has roots in Africa. That number is down from 80 percent 20 years ago, but activists and demographers say it is still inaccurate and they are working to get more Puerto Ricans of African descent to identify as black on the next census in an effort to draw attention to the island’s racial disparities.
All residents of Puerto Rico can select “Yes, Puerto Rican” on the census to indicate their Hispanic origin. But when it comes to race, residents must choose among “white,” “black,” “American Indian,” multiple options for Asian heritage, or they can write something in. Most Puerto Ricans choose “white.
But the Trump administration’s slow response after Hurricane Maria and other natural disasters has made many Puerto Ricans reconsider their decision to identify as white Americans, said Kimberly Figueroa Calderón, a member of Colectivo Ilé, a coalition of Puerto Rican educators and organizers who are campaigning for more Puerto Ricans to identify as black on the 2020 census. “We are not the ‘citizens’ that we think we are,” she said.
After Hurricane Maria, Maricruz Rivera-Clemente, the founder of Corporación Piñones se Integra, said it took longer for electricity to be restored in Loíza than in the capital, San Juan, and other parts of the island. “We have the same electrical connection, the same electrical source as Isla Verde,” Ms. Rivera-Clemente said, referring to a popular tourist area near San Juan. “We had no electricity until two months later.”
Interesting. As I figured, there are two differing views on this because of the piss poor inaccurate census, but I’m sticking with most PR‘s on the street claiming everything else if and when presented with the correct options. It’s one thing to tick a box you don’t fit into, and quite another to tell me what you actually are to my face.
I’m going with option 2 every time.
In 2000 most Puerto Ricans identified as white. In 2020, few did. Why that number dropped
By Syra Ortiz-Blanes
Updated October 18, 2021 2:50 PM
San Juan, Puerto Rico
For Raquel Ortiz Roldán, a Puerto Rican woman who lives in the coastal town of Arecibo, the 2020 Census was a way to affirm her multiracial identity as a member of a large, extended mixed family. New write-in boxes under each of her selected races allowed her to describe herself better.
Ortiz Roldán marked herself as “White,” “Black or African American,” and “Some Other Race.” In the write-in boxes she identified as “afrodescendiente” — Afro-descendant — and “Taíno,” indigenous people from the island.
“When you don’t have any other options, it’s like, ‘Look, there is orange juice and grape juice. You have to choose between those two.’ But if they tell you there is orange juice, grape juice and soursop juice, then people can choose soursop too,” said Ortiz Roldán, 47.
Ortiz Roldán is among a growing number of Puerto Ricans who did not identify solely under the “White” category in the 2020 Census — breaking long-standing trends in Census racial data on the island. In the 2000 Census, the number of people identifying as “White” only in Puerto Rico was 80.5 percent. On a Caribbean island rich in Black heritage — and a history of colonization, migration and slavery — those numbers did not reflect the on-the-ground reality, said experts and researchers.
Then, the results of the last Census in 2020 in Puerto Rico stunned island residents, scholars and activists. The number of island residents identifying only as “White” saw a dramatic decrease between 2010 and 2020, to 17 percent. About half of the population identified as “Two or More Races,” while a quarter identified as “Some Other Race.”
Experts, scholars and activists say that modifications to the Census questionnaire’s design, historical events that rocked Puerto Rico, and local efforts to educate people about race and racism resulted in the significant demographic changes in the 2020 Census, which signal changes in local perceptions of identity.
“Puerto Rico, following the census, is not a white country. We who do anti-racist work know that and so do many other people,” said Bárbara Abadía-Rexach, professor of Afro-Latinidades at San Francisco State University. “But it was not what the censuses were reflecting.”
Spotty record for Census in Puerto Rico
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts a population count every decade, capturing information on race, sex, age and other data that decide public policy and billions in federal funding. While the Census has some insight into how the island understands its own racial identity, scholars saythat federal racial data collection practices do not correspond with how Puerto Ricans understand race.
“The U.S. Census uses categories that are interpreted as ... mutually exclusive. In Latin America and the Caribbean, racial categories have always been seen as a continuum. ... It is understood that there are all kinds of mixture,” said Palmira Ríos, a researcher at the Public Administration Graduate School at the University of Puerto Rico.
For decades, the island’s territorial government promoted a narrative of la mezcla de las tres razas, or “the mix of the three races” — that Puerto Ricans hailed from a harmonious combination of Spanish, indigenous Taíno and African heritage, said Isar Godreau, a professor and researcher at the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey.
“In the Hispanic Caribbean, the idea of mixture does not contradict the notion of whiteness,” the professor said, “You can understand that you are white and also understand that you are mixed.”
But that ideal the government promoted also erased the idea of racism and distanced itself from Blackness, she added. That local understanding of race, filtered through Census categories, could explain why Puerto Ricans mostly marked themselves as “White” in 2000 and 2010.
“I’m not telling you that it was an easy selection,” she said. “But when people see the options that exist and they say well, I’m not Black, I’m not Indigenous, I’m not Asian ... well then I’m white. And since there is a [local] discourse that allows that, we saw the results.”
Puerto Rico lost nearly 12% of its population in the last 10 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But migration doesn’t account for the change in population demographics on the island, said demographer Raúl Figueroa.
“Those who emigrate are not very different from those who stay,” said Figueroa. “That factor should not affect so much, especially considering the magnitude of the change that occurred.”
Figueroa said that changes in the design of the questions — like adding in write-in sections and example groups under racial categories — contributed to changes seen in the most recent Census in both Puerto Rico and the mainland U.S. Along with other scholars interviewed, Figueroa said he believes that the 2020 Census results are more representative than the 2000 and 2010 counts of the island’s racial composition.
“I think now the numbers ... are looking more like what they really are,” he told the Miami Herald.
Multiple crises
An investigation using pre-Hurricane Maria datafrom Godreau, along with Center for Puerto Rican Studies Director Yarimar Bonilla, could also shed light on the recent Census results.
A 2016 survey conducted by Bonilla originally explored Puerto Rican perceptions of the economic crisis, which developed as a landmarkU.S. Supreme Court decision cast doubt on the island about Puerto Rico’s autonomy as a territory; a debt-ridden economy that spurred an exodus; and the federal imposition of a Fiscal Oversight and Management Board to oversee the island’s finances.
These were “different instances in which it was specified that Puerto Rico was a colony,” said Godreau.
In the demographic component of the study, Bonilla and Godreau decided to team up and include an open-ended question asking participants to describe their racial identity. They wrote a paper on their findings, published in June.
They found that only about 20% of all participants identified as white. And those who did also gave qualifiers, describing themselves as “white Latina” or “Puerto Rican white.” Most also opted to use federal government terms such as “Latino” or “Hispanic,” while only 10% used Puerto Rican terms for mixed racial identification, like “café con leche,” “coffee with milk,” or “trigueño” — brown-skinned.
Godreau and Bonilla concluded that the political, economic and social turmoil on the island had affected the identity of Puerto Ricans, who were now placing themselves in a larger mainland U.S. racial context instead of an isolated one exclusive to the island. Sixty-eight percent of all interviewed agreed that Puerto Rico is a colony.
“The Commonwealth no longer has resources, because it has been bankrupt for a while, it does not have the resources to reproduce its racial myths,” she said. “The myth that we can call ourselves white ... without being challenged by our colonial reality.”
Then, President Donald Trump, whose campaign used anti-Hispanic rhetoric, came into power in January 2017. Hurricane Maria hit in September of that year, killing thousands and destroying critical infrastructure. Federal hurricane relief was slower than in states like Florida and Texas. During a presidential visit to Puerto Rico after the storm, Trump tossed paper towels into a crowd, angering many Puerto Ricans. A series of devastating earthquakes and the coronavirus pandemic followed. The events likely exacerbated tendencies she and Bonilla had seen, Godreau said, particularly the decrease in people only identifying as white. But they did not expect it would be so steep.
In all, people identifying as multiracial in Puerto Rico’s population increased by 1,238%, while people identifying as “Some Other Race” alone or in combination increased by 629% since 2010 — phenomenons that tracked trends in the mainland U.S.
Pushing Census education
As the flurry of disasters struck Puerto Rico, local groups continued building on decades’ long work against racism. Among those wasColectivo Ilé, a Black women-led group that focuses on eradicating racism and celebrating Blackness.
In collaboration with a coalition of 45 other organizations, the organization launched a Census education campaign to reduce the number of people who identified as only white and to encourage Black Puerto Ricans to claim their heritage and write themselves in as Afro-descendant.
They flooded the internet, television and radio with their campaign, and created an educational tool kit and hashtags like #PuertoRicoisAfro.
For Irán Rodríguez, a 26-year-old social work graduate, identifying as “Black” and writing in “Afro-Boricua” — Boricua is a traditional way Puerto Ricans use to refer to themselves — was a way to celebrate who he was and a “step of affirmation.” He told the Miami Herald that campaigns like Colectivo Ilé’s made him feel supported in his choice.
“You say to yourself, what I always suspected is valid. I am a Black person, a person who is Afro-descendant,” he said.
‘I am not leaving my blackness behind’
The number of Puerto Ricans who identified as “Black or African American” alone was half in the 2020 Census of what it had been in 2010. However, the percentage of people identifying as “Black or African American” in combination increased by nearly 300 percent. Abadía-Rexach, the San Francisco State University professor, said that decline in Puerto Ricans who solely identified as Black revealed the nuances of racial categorizations.
“Of course we are mixed people. But a person who is visibly black, should [they] mark Black with something else? This is a very subjective, very individual matter, but it is a question that I would ask,” she said, “I come from a mixed family, but people see me as black. I look at myself in the mirror every day, as a Black person. I’m not going to mark more than Black.”
The increase of Puerto Ricans identifying as “Black or African American” alone or in combination— about 17.5% of the population — was welcome news for Colectivo Ilé and other local
“What people are doing is saying, ‘Yes, I am black and I am something else, but I am not leaving my blackness behind,‘‘ said María Reinat Pumarejo, Colectivo Ilé’s director, “I am not leaving behind my relationship with my Black ancestors, which is vital that it be understood.’”
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Social Security Legislative Bulletin
Number: 117-9 Date: June 8, 2022
President Signs H.R. 7691, the
“Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022”
On May 21, 2022, the President signed H.R. 7691, the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022, which became Public Law 117-128.“Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022”
This law includes the following provision of interest to the Social Security Administration:
Title IV, Section 401- General Provision
- This section allows citizens of Ukraine, nationals of Ukraine, or individuals who last habitually resided in Ukraine to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) if they were:
- paroled into the United States between February 24, 2022 and September 30, 2023, or
- paroled into the United States after September 30, 2023, and they are a spouse or child of a person from Ukraine who was paroled into the United States between February 24, 2022 and September 30, 2023 (as described in 1 and a. above), or
- paroled into the United States after September 30, 2023, and they are a parent, legal guardian, or primary caregiver of an unaccompanied minor from Ukraine who was paroled into the United States between February 24, 2022 and September 30, 2023 (as described in 1 and a. above);
- To be eligible for SSI benefits, these parolees must meet all of the program’s other requirements. For example, a parolee must be at least age 65 or disabled or blind, and have countable income and resources below the program’s limits;
- A parolee’s eligibility to receive SSI benefits ends if parole status is terminated by the Department of Homeland Security. In addition, a parolee’s eligibility to receive SSI benefits ends seven years from the date on which the parolee attained parole status; and
- This section also requires SSA to not count the income and resources of a sponsor in determining the SSI eligibility and benefit amounts of these parolees (this counting process is often called “sponsor-to-alien deeming”).
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