So the "Americans" starved us, experimented on us, sterilized us, poisoned our land and sent us off to die in wars? Then all I can say is THANK GOD! Because if they did all that and there's still more than 4 MILLION of us on an island that's only 100 x 35, if they hadn't done that there would be 20 MILLION of us and we would be EATING EACH OTHER! In fact, we are pretty close to doing that right now! Man, what planet do these Niuyoricans live in? I bet they believe we have chupacabras too!
Nos importa un carajo lo que piensen los gringos ignorantes, no son nuestros dueños pueñeta, ignorantes, busquen sobre nuestra historia y verán que fuimos invadidos de manera ilegal!! nos dieron su ciudadanía para que todo lo que hicieran con nosotros no se viera tan mal ante los ojos del mundo. Nos inyectaron cáncer, esterilizaron alrededor de 20,000 mujeres en la isla porque querían eliminar la raza puertorriqueña porque son unos malditos racistas.
Muchas personas ignorantes de otros países que no conocen nuestra historia se atreven a decir que somos una isla gringa con costumbres gringas y con gringos. Somos de PUERTO RICO, somos PUERTORRIQUEÑOS, tenemos nuestra propia cultura, nuestro idioma, tradiciones, música, nuestra propia bandera, himno (aunque nuestro himno fue cambiado por obligación de los opresores yankis) Somos una nación, lástima que EE.UU. nos haya invadido y seamos una colonia QUE HORROR! VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!!!
@CapitanBasket No nos importa lo que los demás piensen, somos Puertorriqueños y lo seguiremos siendo porque nos sentimos orgullosos de ser de donde somos y no tenemos nada que envidiarle a ningún otro país en este mundo. Somos territorio de EE.UU. y me molesta mucho eso, porque somos un punto estratégico para ellos. EE.UU. no nos quieren, odian a los boricuas y somos irrelevantes para ellos. Experimentan con nosotros y abusan. Son unos tiranos y seguirán abusando de su poder.
I do not know why people find it so hard to believe that the US could have treated Puerto Ricans so horribly. I mean look at what they have done to the black people in this country with all of their experiments and whatnot. And speaking of black, why do black people try to make everyone black? African is but one of 3 main cultures that makes Puerto Ricans who they are. Please stop being so ignorant.
@msdaydreamer1979 Black ppl do not try and make everyone black!...if anything...its white ppl that did an still do...they made up that one drop rule in america from the beginning! Most african-americans today, have african and european in their blood...hence...their our surnames! lol
@rsp041333. We do pay US taxes, and PR taxes too..and yet we still cant vote por the president..and US has NEVER ever ever offered PR be a state...i dont think you know what your talking about
Is this a movie for real? cuz i would like to see it...Puerto Rico es incomparable.! Muchas imitaciones, pero solo una original.! Mi tierra bella.! Hasta en nuestros dias negros tenemos el gozo Boricua...Eso nunca nadie nos lo podran quitar.! Boricua hasta la muerte.!
United States has offered Puerto Rico to become a state many times. They do not pay US taxes. They pay Puerto Rican taxes. The Country would never of become a developed country if it was not for the US. SO USA is not really bad to Puerto rico for u haters
Rosie left out alot in this PR documentary, while most parts were good she left out the most importance about Puerto Rico and thats AFRICAN and TAINO INFULENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is the main thing that makes Puerto Rico what it is...FOOD...MUSICA and even the spanish language and the way it is spoken in Puerto Rico! Si vas a hacer un documental de Rosie, obtener todos los datos correctos!!!!!
Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and all of Latin America is truly the melting pot! Nowhere in the world is there a community of peoples of mixed origins. Spanish, Indian (Taino, Inca, Aztec, Ciboney...) and African! Mixing and contributing to what makes us who we are today. These influences are found in the Spanish we speak, Foods we eat, Customs we celebrate, and Music we sing and dance to. We have little time on this earth to be preoccupied by what divides us. We should celebrate what unites us!
I respect the first P.R's that came to the U.S mainland, they're the ones who really suffered. We have been citizens long enough and we still have these "B.S" bilingual programs, social programs, we secure and continue with our ignorance to secure the jobs of many in the legal community. It continues to weaken us! Get rid of welfare, social programs and get to work like our fathers did. It's time to assimilate and quit playing the victim card. Then we raise the flag with hard earned pride!
Puerto Rico belongs to the USA. We have the right to use Puerto Rico, Guantanamo, etc to do scientific experiments on mass sterilization, chemical weapons and so on.
@WarmongerWW3 YEAH RIGHT ! YALL DONT HAVE THE RIGHTS, U ALL ARE A BUNCH OF IMPOSTERS, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL FOR TAKING OUR ANCESTORS LAND ,NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAS, INCLUDING THE CARRIBBEAN
@Thedarksecret1 look stupe,puerto rico is a U.S. territory and we have every damn right to do whatever we want to do with it,practice bombing,putting chemicals into the ground whatever fits our fancy. We had to control your population otherwise the amount of kids u have every year (breeding like roaches) will be so many our tax dollars cant pay 4 them all just look at how many of u in NY on welfare now.ITS A DAMN SHAME,IF IT WASNT FOR SPIKE LEE ROSIE PEREZ WOULD BE ON WELFARE SO SHUT UP
@vernontrumpet2000 I don't know what you be saying about "breeding like roaches" 'cause the ones that breed like there's no tomorrow are the ones who live in the Continental US. Check your facts hun. You're nothing but a poor excuse of a human being, coming up with comments like these.
@ConcepcionPR LOOK ,IF U WANNA LEAVE THE U.S. JUST DO SO.WE ARE TIRED OF FEEDING YALL:FOOD STAMPS,WELFARE,SECTION 8 PROJECTS AND FREE CLINICS MAKE YALL A HEAVY BURDEN...RUN ON OUT THERE AND FIGHT 4 YOUR INDEPENDENCE WE ARENT STOPPING U WE NEED TO SAVE SOME MONEY ANYWAY
@vernontrumpet2000 If you don't like it, then get the hell out! Aren't you guys always braggin' about the so called "American Dream", you wanted to be the country that everybody wants to go to, right? Well, you got what you wanted! The American Dream baby! We're here and we ain't goin' nowhere! Deal with it asshole!
por favor alguien puede entrarle a pedras a nydia velasquez se lo agradeceria caramba si esa cabra es congresista propongo a el pato donald de gobernador,
one of the things people should learn how to do is respect each other beliefs and know that we all were created equally in god's vision, yea that our countries has suffered the rafts of war, poverty, abuse. we are all here for the same reason to live a better life doesn't matter who you are PR, DR,CUBAN, BLACK, the problem is nobody is better then nobody, better then all of us is the ground we step on and is the one that's going to swallow us when we die, so live and let live people. bondgirl007
no such thing as 100% pure puerto rican, a taino is not a puerto rican! pure means unadulterated, clean, untouched. how can you be pure when the original people of puerto rico and the dominican were killed off and bred to africans and raped by spaniards to produce the best slaves possible? how can you be pure when the original people have not existed for some time now? and this white thing? sure ask a white supremecist, or a skinhead or a spaniard from spain to see if they include you....not!
SHAME ON YOU ROSIE for painting a fake picture of the true PuertoRican Experience......What about the African elements of PR history in Food, Music, Culture, and PEOPLE that you left out of this White-washed ANGLO documentary.
I Cant Belive that the goverment of PR actually allowed this, and they got paid for it
thats like someone asking "hey can i use your grandpa in some experiments? kay thanks heres a few million bucks", what kind of decent human being would accept something like that , and how dare the americans( the gov. not the people they know even less) not even teach our real history in their classrooms,eso bastards
@fonseca71 Hun, look out the history books. This really did happen. That you don't want to accept it, it's a whole 'nother thing. But the US wasn't supposed to get Puerto Rico in the first place.
We do have white in us too but we have more taino and african in us esecially the music that we play and the food that we eat and some of the words that we say has a lot of african and taino hertiage
Not only african hertiage is left out but also taino hertiage is left out too it seems like the white spainards get all the fame and they slaved the tainos and africans but we still have that taino and african blood in us
Yeah you right but also taino culture is very evident also we should be proud of our roots we are truley indigenous and a lot african and matter of fact africans came here before columbus and the native americans visted the africans we visted each other and cross the atlantic before columbus there's a book that I have read its called africans and native americans the language of race and evolution of red-black peoples it has a lot of information on that check that out in google
And WTF ! Rosie Perez has afro roots. She has black in her ! Come on Rosie Perez is black ! and yet she did not capture the Afro Boricuas or the African heritage of PUERTO RICO !
Rosie's "Mulata" (Black/White) ass should be ashamed of herself. She sure benefitted from being in Spike Lee's Do the right thing flick and Hip Hop though. She absolutely downplayed the African element of her island.
@palmares77 I so agree with you! Self hatred and denial is truly evident in this! It is amazing how some people forget the people that gave them so much!
All Puerto Ricans don't look like Ricky Martin and Marc Anthony....If I was a Puerto Rican of African descent, I'D BE PISSED after watching this video.
@chsn09 here you go again, yes she has african in her what person from the carribbean doesnt. but look at her and you dare to tell me she is black like if she was 100%, just look at her hair, skin, facial features. gosh you are so freaking frustrated. just because you are probably 100% black doesnt mean we all are.
@3lilsonny Okay! Dude watch it now! I am NOT 100% black! I am light as hell! I am mixed!!! My point was that they did not go too much into detail into the afro roots! That is all I was saying! I know that she is NOT 100% black! She is only half or at least partially black! SHe also has white! And I am of Caribbean background myself and am VERY mixed! My point was just that they should NOT deny or leave out roots of things! And Rosie Perez is a mulatta!
@3lilsonny LMFAO! also you tell me that I am 100% black! You said it in an insulting manner by saying 100% black! I am not 100% anything! Do not assume cuz you make an ass out of u and me! My bloodlines are mixed! just because you feel that you are not black does not mean that you do not look it or at least will not be precieved as such!
@3lilsonny And you seem so freaking frustrated as well! I am not frustrated! I at anything! It just sucks that certain roots like Taino/indigenous and black/Afrodescent were not portrayed in detail!
@3lilsonny Also I am aware that Reosie Perez is a Boricua/Puerto Rican and identifies as such! Another thing also, from all the ignorance in this world ppl do not think a Puerto Rican can have black or Taino ancestry! Ppl ignorantly think that there are no Afro boricuas because ppl stupidly confuse race nationality ethnicity and ppl think Hispanic/Latino is a race, which it is not!
Reggaeton is BULLSHIT. Totally uncreative music. Whole bunch of Hispanic niggas trying to act Black and create their own ethnic version of hip-hop and reggae? Same wack ass fuckin beat every song. I wonder how the real Marley and the real dancehall greats like seeing the word REGGAE in this music. I know the Salsa Greats from PR have to be turning over in their graves too!!!!
Reggaeton is very creative. its a Mix of Reggae/dancehall/bomba/and rap. Reggaetoneros dont try to act black, they arent trying to be anyone, because you know you cant say Reggaeton sounds exactly like hiphop or reggae. right? It is extremely unique. and that riddum you hear is called dembow, its repititive but all Latin music has a repetitive beat. for example merengue, bachata, durango, cumbia, samba, and Reggaeton is no exception from the long list of beautiful music of my people :)
i noe u posted this comment a month ago but this s not true at all this is all bull crap i dont really know what race you are and i dont care at all but wut do u think about vanilla ice??? and eminem??? these reggaeton artists were in the same situations as the black rappers ok. P.R. is paradise but there is ghetto parts so u dont know what you are talking about oh yeah and there is black puerto ricans too like tego calderon look it up
lol palmares please kill yourself. how can puerto ricans try to "act" like what they are? if theyhave african in them, if they have rhythym why not flaunt it? im not a fan of reggaeton but they are, dont have on them because theyve taken something, remixed it and gained momentum in the quest of putting their island on the map. puerto ricans are jut as black, just as taino, just as anything else as i am, im a black skinned jamaican, and i aint hating.
@Xaymaicana Exactly! Many Jamaicans still have Taino ancestry! But yet Puerto Ricans are quick to claim everything and everybody else as black! They are the pots calling the kettle black! They complain if someone calls them black but are so quick to claim you as black! They are just as wrong as they claim others to be! African and Taino are the most important parts and need to be acknowledged instead of acknowledging only the Spaniard/Spanish part! Great comment!
i guess i can understand an see why some puertorican people are angry its ok i always welcome any of you to be my friend as im an athlete an athletes are good people
But they live in america right?. If its such a bad country they can go back to picking bananas or whatever the fuck they where doing before they crossed the border.
it's not the fact that it's a bad country it's the fact that they were bad to US!...they (the government not the U.S. ppl) exploited the land and the ppl of PR...if you cant understand the difference just shut the fuck up and keep your ignorant comments to yourself
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So if the U.S. is such a bad country then why do they live in it. Dont start to rant about them being oppressed in there homecountry and that crap cause if they where they definetly wouldnt fly THAT fleg would they.
A lot of ricans came here during the 30's when the US gave them citizenship so that they could fight in the war and for cheap labor...many ricans here are products of those families...other ricans come in search of jobs...they're American at birth whether they're born here or on the island...most ppl dont fly that flag unless they're trying to make a statement good or bad etc however it's the law to raise it before PR's flag..think of a better come back.. -_-
WHITEWASHED............She gave no justice to all the AFRO-BORICUAS that live on the island.............She focused on the SPANISH SLAVEMASTER and the Taino that he either killed or fucked to create the jibaros...............
I learned so much from watching this documentary that I got goosebumps in certain parts of the film....if Rosie does reads this THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! this is definitely one that all boricuas need to see let alone purchase to support what she did for us to know more of our history and the contributions we have made to society that are never heard of.
She completely ignored the AFRICAN influence on the island...........viva cities like Loiza, Guayama, Mayaguez, Ponce,,,,,,etc. .........This was some real whitewashed PR shit.................
mija mi gente son de ponce,guayama y otra parte de puerto rico. ella no estaba hablando de raza de puerto rico si no de que los u.s. le hacieron a puerto rico y porque uno deve tener orgullo.ahora cuando ella haga algo de la historia de puerto rico es otra cosa.
Entiendo todo eso pero no veo mucha gente de esa ascendencia en este documentario......Para alguien sin conocimiento de PR, ellos pensarion PR fue un pais con Blancos y mestizos solamente.........Rosie Perez es una boricua con ascendencia Africana en su sangre.......When she said "Oh we are just like the Taino people right.? Real loud and stuff and always partying>?? BS....Indians are quiet people. BLACK people are loud. That's the African in you........LOL.
I'm sorry but I disagree with you my afro-ricans are not loud people.Maybe you are thinking about ghetto people.and the Taino weren't that quiet either.and those people that think P.R. has not afro-boricua seriously have some issues.I guess they're blind.
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WHAT??? Blacks are naturally a very loud people. I AM BLACK. Native peoples are really quiet in comparison with Black African peoples........Come on please Rose. The music of Afro-ricans are LOUD. SALSA, BOMBA, PLENA.......??? Give me a break. The congo is the instrument that represents Africa most in PR. Is that a quiet instrument??? You don't know the African soul if you say that Afro-ricans are not loud......Loud doesn't have to mean "Ghetto."
@palmares77 were you looking at the same video I was? Cuz last I checked the first dude in there was Black, and there were PLENTY of Mulattos in there as well, including Rosie herself.
I watched the film awhile back and I think it was very well done , especailly when you consider the fact that this is a documentary. I felt the film struck a good balance of revealing abit of Rosie's persoanl history and the overall history P.R. has had with the U.S. without becoming boring. I think she did a great job answering the main question: why are Puerto Ricans so proud? She exaplins it in the trailer clip and the film simply elaborates on the claioms she makes. It was very informative.
@mlmlisa look stupe,puerto rico is a U.S. territory and we have every damn right to do whatever we want to do with it,practice bombing,putting chemicals into the ground whatever fits our fancy. We had to control your population otherwise the amount of kids u have every year (breeding like roaches) will be so many our tax dollars cant pay 4 them all just look at how many of u in NY on welfare now.ITS A DAMN SHAME,IF IT WASNT FOR SPIKE LEE ROSIE PEREZ WOULD BE ON WELFARE SO SHUT UP
Why didn't she include her Puerto rican sisters from the group home? Rosie you sould be proud of what you're doing now and remember the one's who stood by you way back when. Much love and Pride to ya.
So the "Americans" starved us, experimented on us, sterilized us, poisoned our land and sent us off to die in wars? Then all I can say is THANK GOD! Because if they did all that and there's still more than 4 MILLION of us on an island that's only 100 x 35, if they hadn't done that there would be 20 MILLION of us and we would be EATING EACH OTHER! In fact, we are pretty close to doing that right now! Man, what planet do these Niuyoricans live in? I bet they believe we have chupacabras too!
jimmo620 2 weeks ago
Nos importa un carajo lo que piensen los gringos ignorantes, no son nuestros dueños pueñeta, ignorantes, busquen sobre nuestra historia y verán que fuimos invadidos de manera ilegal!! nos dieron su ciudadanía para que todo lo que hicieran con nosotros no se viera tan mal ante los ojos del mundo. Nos inyectaron cáncer, esterilizaron alrededor de 20,000 mujeres en la isla porque querían eliminar la raza puertorriqueña porque son unos malditos racistas.
CapitanBasket 5 months ago
Muchas personas ignorantes de otros países que no conocen nuestra historia se atreven a decir que somos una isla gringa con costumbres gringas y con gringos. Somos de PUERTO RICO, somos PUERTORRIQUEÑOS, tenemos nuestra propia cultura, nuestro idioma, tradiciones, música, nuestra propia bandera, himno (aunque nuestro himno fue cambiado por obligación de los opresores yankis) Somos una nación, lástima que EE.UU. nos haya invadido y seamos una colonia QUE HORROR! VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!!!
CapitanBasket 5 months ago
@CapitanBasket No nos importa lo que los demás piensen, somos Puertorriqueños y lo seguiremos siendo porque nos sentimos orgullosos de ser de donde somos y no tenemos nada que envidiarle a ningún otro país en este mundo. Somos territorio de EE.UU. y me molesta mucho eso, porque somos un punto estratégico para ellos. EE.UU. no nos quieren, odian a los boricuas y somos irrelevantes para ellos. Experimentan con nosotros y abusan. Son unos tiranos y seguirán abusando de su poder.
CapitanBasket 5 months ago
so why do people watch this video if they gonna say bad things?
thats a stupid move. get some education! lol
miami13wildcat 8 months ago
I do not know why people find it so hard to believe that the US could have treated Puerto Ricans so horribly. I mean look at what they have done to the black people in this country with all of their experiments and whatnot. And speaking of black, why do black people try to make everyone black? African is but one of 3 main cultures that makes Puerto Ricans who they are. Please stop being so ignorant.
msdaydreamer1979 8 months ago
@msdaydreamer1979 Black ppl do not try and make everyone black!...if anything...its white ppl that did an still do...they made up that one drop rule in america from the beginning! Most african-americans today, have african and european in their blood...hence...their our surnames! lol
BXTALE 5 months ago
Where can i watch the full documentary?
dfl0rd2 9 months ago
@rsp041333. We do pay US taxes, and PR taxes too..and yet we still cant vote por the president..and US has NEVER ever ever offered PR be a state...i dont think you know what your talking about
dyahmiluna 10 months ago
@LoneCuetlachtli I know, but Rosie shouldn't have just mention the spanish part, given what they did to the Tainos and Africans.
BlasianChineseBoy 10 months ago
Is this a movie for real? cuz i would like to see it...Puerto Rico es incomparable.! Muchas imitaciones, pero solo una original.! Mi tierra bella.! Hasta en nuestros dias negros tenemos el gozo Boricua...Eso nunca nadie nos lo podran quitar.! Boricua hasta la muerte.!
wgzayasortiz 10 months ago
Yo vow con el o Ella Los estados no son tan malos pero my alma le perteneze a la borinqueña
GX1XD1PD 10 months ago
yo soy boriqua hasta la muerte
candygirl050792 11 months ago
United States has offered Puerto Rico to become a state many times. They do not pay US taxes. They pay Puerto Rican taxes. The Country would never of become a developed country if it was not for the US. SO USA is not really bad to Puerto rico for u haters
rsp041333 11 months ago
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@rsp041333 Honey, you have no idea what you're talking about.
anaeli1894 3 months ago
Rosie left out alot in this PR documentary, while most parts were good she left out the most importance about Puerto Rico and thats AFRICAN and TAINO INFULENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is the main thing that makes Puerto Rico what it is...FOOD...MUSICA and even the spanish language and the way it is spoken in Puerto Rico! Si vas a hacer un documental de Rosie, obtener todos los datos correctos!!!!!
BlasianChineseBoy 11 months ago
Montezumatamarindo tu n'es qu'un sale raciste anti nègre
N'insulte pas mon île connard, les antilles françaises ne s'interessent pas aux pays "latinos" de toute manière, quel peuple de raciste ma parole
kkreyolita 1 year ago
Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and all of Latin America is truly the melting pot! Nowhere in the world is there a community of peoples of mixed origins. Spanish, Indian (Taino, Inca, Aztec, Ciboney...) and African! Mixing and contributing to what makes us who we are today. These influences are found in the Spanish we speak, Foods we eat, Customs we celebrate, and Music we sing and dance to. We have little time on this earth to be preoccupied by what divides us. We should celebrate what unites us!
sq1ueeze 1 year ago
I respect the first P.R's that came to the U.S mainland, they're the ones who really suffered. We have been citizens long enough and we still have these "B.S" bilingual programs, social programs, we secure and continue with our ignorance to secure the jobs of many in the legal community. It continues to weaken us! Get rid of welfare, social programs and get to work like our fathers did. It's time to assimilate and quit playing the victim card. Then we raise the flag with hard earned pride!
whipcity1096 1 year ago
viva Puesto Rico carajo!!!!!! SOY UN VERDADERO BORICUA PA QUE TU LO SEPAS
boricua18jmc 1 year ago
Puerto Rico belongs to the USA. We have the right to use Puerto Rico, Guantanamo, etc to do scientific experiments on mass sterilization, chemical weapons and so on.
WarmongerWW3 1 year ago
@WarmongerWW3 YEAH RIGHT ! YALL DONT HAVE THE RIGHTS, U ALL ARE A BUNCH OF IMPOSTERS, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL FOR TAKING OUR ANCESTORS LAND ,NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAS, INCLUDING THE CARRIBBEAN
LIBRAMAN2009 1 year ago
@LIBRAMAN2009 You are a foreign invader as well but you simply don't have the best weapons >:)
WarmongerWW3 1 year ago
@WarmongerWW3 HA! We'll see what you think about that when it is done to your people... Asshole.
anaeli1894 3 months ago
@anaeli1894 Keep dreaming.
WarmongerWW3 3 months ago
@WarmongerWW3 You're an idiot. HA!
anaeli1894 3 months ago
Am dam darn Proud of my Boricua and am A mixed Rican its awesome so much culture its rich and proud. Dont hate just love it.
Chula1828 1 year ago
This seems like a very insightful documentary. I think I'll rent this soon. Yeah, I like Rosie Perez.
Thedarksecret1 1 year ago
@Thedarksecret1 look stupe,puerto rico is a U.S. territory and we have every damn right to do whatever we want to do with it,practice bombing,putting chemicals into the ground whatever fits our fancy. We had to control your population otherwise the amount of kids u have every year (breeding like roaches) will be so many our tax dollars cant pay 4 them all just look at how many of u in NY on welfare now.ITS A DAMN SHAME,IF IT WASNT FOR SPIKE LEE ROSIE PEREZ WOULD BE ON WELFARE SO SHUT UP
vernontrumpet2000 1 year ago
@vernontrumpet2000 I don't know what you be saying about "breeding like roaches" 'cause the ones that breed like there's no tomorrow are the ones who live in the Continental US. Check your facts hun. You're nothing but a poor excuse of a human being, coming up with comments like these.
anaeli1894 3 months ago
Puerto Rican Independence!!! Dont let them take our homeland!
ConcepcionPR 1 year ago 3
@ConcepcionPR
PURO5X5LK 1 year ago
@ConcepcionPR LOOK ,IF U WANNA LEAVE THE U.S. JUST DO SO.WE ARE TIRED OF FEEDING YALL:FOOD STAMPS,WELFARE,SECTION 8 PROJECTS AND FREE CLINICS MAKE YALL A HEAVY BURDEN...RUN ON OUT THERE AND FIGHT 4 YOUR INDEPENDENCE WE ARENT STOPPING U WE NEED TO SAVE SOME MONEY ANYWAY
vernontrumpet2000 1 year ago
@vernontrumpet2000 DUDE U WHIT FOLKS ARE 7 PERCENT OF THE WORLD POPULATION,, MINORITIES IS WHATS KEEPING THIS COUNTRY GOING
LIBRAMAN2009 1 year ago
@vernontrumpet2000 If you don't like it, then get the hell out! Aren't you guys always braggin' about the so called "American Dream", you wanted to be the country that everybody wants to go to, right? Well, you got what you wanted! The American Dream baby! We're here and we ain't goin' nowhere! Deal with it asshole!
anaeli1894 3 months ago
fuck all ya haters..PR/NY 4Life.
Ricanking716 1 year ago
@Ricanking716 NY ?? people will think you want statehood
boricuamovement 1 year ago
Oh my people..... Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Yochanan64 1 year ago
por favor alguien puede entrarle a pedras a nydia velasquez se lo agradeceria caramba si esa cabra es congresista propongo a el pato donald de gobernador,
joeblackforu2 1 year ago
por favor
joeblackforu2 1 year ago
callate pendeja
ricosniper 1 year ago
she forgot to mention Slavery
Applebaum 1 year ago
one of the things people should learn how to do is respect each other beliefs and know that we all were created equally in god's vision, yea that our countries has suffered the rafts of war, poverty, abuse. we are all here for the same reason to live a better life doesn't matter who you are PR, DR,CUBAN, BLACK, the problem is nobody is better then nobody, better then all of us is the ground we step on and is the one that's going to swallow us when we die, so live and let live people. bondgirl007
BONDGIRL007PI 1 year ago
Sabes que eres Boricua si... /watch?v=KEh2DrkrH-8&feature=related
LaLokPR 1 year ago
no such thing as 100% pure puerto rican, a taino is not a puerto rican! pure means unadulterated, clean, untouched. how can you be pure when the original people of puerto rico and the dominican were killed off and bred to africans and raped by spaniards to produce the best slaves possible? how can you be pure when the original people have not existed for some time now? and this white thing? sure ask a white supremecist, or a skinhead or a spaniard from spain to see if they include you....not!
bigboize 1 year ago
viva puerto ricoooo !!!!!
xXxBonita1xXx 1 year ago
que viva puerto rico y que se joda el que no le guste
Kalakekepr 1 year ago 3
SHAME ON YOU ROSIE for painting a fake picture of the true PuertoRican Experience......What about the African elements of PR history in Food, Music, Culture, and PEOPLE that you left out of this White-washed ANGLO documentary.
palmares77 1 year ago
I Cant Belive that the goverment of PR actually allowed this, and they got paid for it
thats like someone asking "hey can i use your grandpa in some experiments? kay thanks heres a few million bucks", what kind of decent human being would accept something like that , and how dare the americans( the gov. not the people they know even less) not even teach our real history in their classrooms,eso bastards
VivaBoricua93 1 year ago
Rosie Lies! What a twist of the truth.
fonseca71 1 year ago
@fonseca71 Hun, look out the history books. This really did happen. That you don't want to accept it, it's a whole 'nother thing. But the US wasn't supposed to get Puerto Rico in the first place.
anaeli1894 3 months ago
Hey atleast we are free -.-
sailormooninukag 1 year ago
We do have white in us too but we have more taino and african in us esecially the music that we play and the food that we eat and some of the words that we say has a lot of african and taino hertiage
prking66 2 years ago 2
Not only african hertiage is left out but also taino hertiage is left out too it seems like the white spainards get all the fame and they slaved the tainos and africans but we still have that taino and african blood in us
prking66 2 years ago 2
exactly.African culture in Puerto Rico is VERY evident and EXTREMELY important when talking about puerto rico.
Xaymaicana 2 years ago 2
Yeah you right but also taino culture is very evident also we should be proud of our roots we are truley indigenous and a lot african and matter of fact africans came here before columbus and the native americans visted the africans we visted each other and cross the atlantic before columbus there's a book that I have read its called africans and native americans the language of race and evolution of red-black peoples it has a lot of information on that check that out in google
prking66 2 years ago
exactly and i dont doubt it at all..=]
Xaymaicana 2 years ago
Word up ma check that book out on google they will let you read a preview of it in google
prking66 2 years ago
And WTF ! Rosie Perez has afro roots. She has black in her ! Come on Rosie Perez is black ! and yet she did not capture the Afro Boricuas or the African heritage of PUERTO RICO !
chsn09 2 years ago
AMEN.
palmares77 2 years ago 2
Rosie's "Mulata" (Black/White) ass should be ashamed of herself. She sure benefitted from being in Spike Lee's Do the right thing flick and Hip Hop though. She absolutely downplayed the African element of her island.
palmares77 2 years ago 4
exactly.
Xaymaicana 2 years ago
@palmares77 I so agree with you! Self hatred and denial is truly evident in this! It is amazing how some people forget the people that gave them so much!
chsn09 1 year ago
All Puerto Ricans don't look like Ricky Martin and Marc Anthony....If I was a Puerto Rican of African descent, I'D BE PISSED after watching this video.
palmares77 2 years ago
I never said puerto ricans look white, pa but look at my comments below k! I said that the African heritage was left out of the island!
chsn09 2 years ago
@chsn09 ROSIE PEREZ IS NOT BLAK AND HYOU YOUR NOT LATINO STOP PREAVHINB AFROSENTRIS BITCH
MONCTEZUMATAMARINDO 1 year ago 2
@chsn09 here you go again, yes she has african in her what person from the carribbean doesnt. but look at her and you dare to tell me she is black like if she was 100%, just look at her hair, skin, facial features. gosh you are so freaking frustrated. just because you are probably 100% black doesnt mean we all are.
3lilsonny 1 year ago 8
@3lilsonny not all pr,dr,and cubans have afro-bloodline in them and rosie mom has spanish descent bloodline.
Kalakekepr 1 year ago
@3lilsonny Okay! Dude watch it now! I am NOT 100% black! I am light as hell! I am mixed!!! My point was that they did not go too much into detail into the afro roots! That is all I was saying! I know that she is NOT 100% black! She is only half or at least partially black! SHe also has white! And I am of Caribbean background myself and am VERY mixed! My point was just that they should NOT deny or leave out roots of things! And Rosie Perez is a mulatta!
chsn09 1 year ago
@chsn09 SSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUT FUKSTAR YOUR EBONIK STOP YOUR BULLSHIT YOUR FRENCH CARIBEEN AFROSENTRIST STALKER AND RASIST GUADALOUPECUNT
MONCTEZUMATAMARINDO 1 year ago 3
@chsn09 NOBOIDY GIVE FUK ABOUT YOUR POINT TOTALY STUPID SHE IS PORTO RICAN THA ALL NOT LIKE YOU SAY YOU STUPID SSFROSENTRIK
MONCTEZUMATAMARINDO 1 year ago 3
@3lilsonny LMFAO! also you tell me that I am 100% black! You said it in an insulting manner by saying 100% black! I am not 100% anything! Do not assume cuz you make an ass out of u and me! My bloodlines are mixed! just because you feel that you are not black does not mean that you do not look it or at least will not be precieved as such!
chsn09 1 year ago
@3lilsonny And you seem so freaking frustrated as well! I am not frustrated! I at anything! It just sucks that certain roots like Taino/indigenous and black/Afrodescent were not portrayed in detail!
chsn09 1 year ago
@3lilsonny Also I am aware that Reosie Perez is a Boricua/Puerto Rican and identifies as such! Another thing also, from all the ignorance in this world ppl do not think a Puerto Rican can have black or Taino ancestry! Ppl ignorantly think that there are no Afro boricuas because ppl stupidly confuse race nationality ethnicity and ppl think Hispanic/Latino is a race, which it is not!
chsn09 1 year ago
@chsn09 I NEVER SEE SEE A STUPPID PEOPLE LIKE THIS AFROSENTRIST GUY
MONCTEZUMATAMARINDO 1 year ago
@MONCTEZUMATAMARINDO Fuck you you idiot! You don't know shit and I am NOT no so called black!
chsn09 10 months ago
Lol ! This seems like a good movie but it left at AFRO BORICUAS !
chsn09 2 years ago 2
Absolutely............Completed neglected the African bloodline that flows through many parts of the island like a river.
palmares77 2 years ago
does anyone know how I could get my hands on this movie?
kaeb1987 2 years ago
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TheChocoloco95 2 years ago
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SuDineroComenta 2 years ago
VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE
ReggaetonFREAK44 2 years ago
Reggaeton is BULLSHIT. Totally uncreative music. Whole bunch of Hispanic niggas trying to act Black and create their own ethnic version of hip-hop and reggae? Same wack ass fuckin beat every song. I wonder how the real Marley and the real dancehall greats like seeing the word REGGAE in this music. I know the Salsa Greats from PR have to be turning over in their graves too!!!!
palmares77 2 years ago
Reggaeton is very creative. its a Mix of Reggae/dancehall/bomba/and rap. Reggaetoneros dont try to act black, they arent trying to be anyone, because you know you cant say Reggaeton sounds exactly like hiphop or reggae. right? It is extremely unique. and that riddum you hear is called dembow, its repititive but all Latin music has a repetitive beat. for example merengue, bachata, durango, cumbia, samba, and Reggaeton is no exception from the long list of beautiful music of my people :)
ReggaetonFREAK44 2 years ago
Seriously though ! Reggaeton is CRAP but I LOVE THAT SHIT ANYWAY ! Reggaeton is just repetitive but I love it !!!!!!
chsn09 2 years ago
i noe u posted this comment a month ago but this s not true at all this is all bull crap i dont really know what race you are and i dont care at all but wut do u think about vanilla ice??? and eminem??? these reggaeton artists were in the same situations as the black rappers ok. P.R. is paradise but there is ghetto parts so u dont know what you are talking about oh yeah and there is black puerto ricans too like tego calderon look it up
TheChocoloco95 2 years ago
lol palmares please kill yourself. how can puerto ricans try to "act" like what they are? if theyhave african in them, if they have rhythym why not flaunt it? im not a fan of reggaeton but they are, dont have on them because theyve taken something, remixed it and gained momentum in the quest of putting their island on the map. puerto ricans are jut as black, just as taino, just as anything else as i am, im a black skinned jamaican, and i aint hating.
Xaymaicana 2 years ago
@Xaymaicana Exactly! Many Jamaicans still have Taino ancestry! But yet Puerto Ricans are quick to claim everything and everybody else as black! They are the pots calling the kettle black! They complain if someone calls them black but are so quick to claim you as black! They are just as wrong as they claim others to be! African and Taino are the most important parts and need to be acknowledged instead of acknowledging only the Spaniard/Spanish part! Great comment!
chsn09 1 year ago
i guess i can understand an see why some puertorican people are angry its ok i always welcome any of you to be my friend as im an athlete an athletes are good people
theolympiclifter 2 years ago
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Puerto rico is wack sorry but its true.. Never goin back
thespecialist201 2 years ago
ignorances is a bliss.
roseartpr 2 years ago
Mayaguez y gurabo reprisentando!!!!!!!!!!
dezaraeyv 2 years ago
BORICUA!!
FRESHRO 2 years ago
puerto ricans cant vote....theyve been reduced to property and their native land used as a U.S. military dump/test site.
pmsan29 2 years ago
Why cant puerto ricans have the american flag in there parades. The irish have it
farbrorbla 2 years ago
Guess some PRicans have some dignity!!! thats why
LosPirataProductions 2 years ago
But they live in america right?. If its such a bad country they can go back to picking bananas or whatever the fuck they where doing before they crossed the border.
farbrorbla 2 years ago
it's not the fact that it's a bad country it's the fact that they were bad to US!...they (the government not the U.S. ppl) exploited the land and the ppl of PR...if you cant understand the difference just shut the fuck up and keep your ignorant comments to yourself
JUNES05 2 years ago 21
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So if the U.S. is such a bad country then why do they live in it. Dont start to rant about them being oppressed in there homecountry and that crap cause if they where they definetly wouldnt fly THAT fleg would they.
farbrorbla 2 years ago
A lot of ricans came here during the 30's when the US gave them citizenship so that they could fight in the war and for cheap labor...many ricans here are products of those families...other ricans come in search of jobs...they're American at birth whether they're born here or on the island...most ppl dont fly that flag unless they're trying to make a statement good or bad etc however it's the law to raise it before PR's flag..think of a better come back.. -_-
JUNES05 2 years ago 5
we becam citizens wayyyy befor the 30s
coquibig 2 years ago
i think we become citizen on 1917
TheHERMAN94 2 years ago
@JUNES05 agrees with comment 100%
Sunni4lyf 1 year ago
@JUNES05 shut the fuck up fool rest pect puerto rico dont get bad fag
jeanwaffles 1 year ago
@jeanwaffles wtf are you talking about? speak to me in full sentences and make use of spell check....then come at me..ass-_-
JUNES05 1 year ago
VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!
amazigh6 2 years ago 3
THIS DOCUMENTARY WAS DOPE
cdrumz 2 years ago 3
WHITEWASHED............She gave no justice to all the AFRO-BORICUAS that live on the island.............She focused on the SPANISH SLAVEMASTER and the Taino that he either killed or fucked to create the jibaros...............
palmares77 2 years ago
I learned so much from watching this documentary that I got goosebumps in certain parts of the film....if Rosie does reads this THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! this is definitely one that all boricuas need to see let alone purchase to support what she did for us to know more of our history and the contributions we have made to society that are never heard of.
darnit989 2 years ago 3
She completely ignored the AFRICAN influence on the island...........viva cities like Loiza, Guayama, Mayaguez, Ponce,,,,,,etc. .........This was some real whitewashed PR shit.................
palmares77 2 years ago
mija mi gente son de ponce,guayama y otra parte de puerto rico. ella no estaba hablando de raza de puerto rico si no de que los u.s. le hacieron a puerto rico y porque uno deve tener orgullo.ahora cuando ella haga algo de la historia de puerto rico es otra cosa.
roseartpr 2 years ago
Entiendo todo eso pero no veo mucha gente de esa ascendencia en este documentario......Para alguien sin conocimiento de PR, ellos pensarion PR fue un pais con Blancos y mestizos solamente.........Rosie Perez es una boricua con ascendencia Africana en su sangre.......When she said "Oh we are just like the Taino people right.? Real loud and stuff and always partying>?? BS....Indians are quiet people. BLACK people are loud. That's the African in you........LOL.
palmares77 2 years ago
I'm sorry but I disagree with you my afro-ricans are not loud people.Maybe you are thinking about ghetto people.and the Taino weren't that quiet either.and those people that think P.R. has not afro-boricua seriously have some issues.I guess they're blind.
roseartpr 2 years ago
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WHAT??? Blacks are naturally a very loud people. I AM BLACK. Native peoples are really quiet in comparison with Black African peoples........Come on please Rose. The music of Afro-ricans are LOUD. SALSA, BOMBA, PLENA.......??? Give me a break. The congo is the instrument that represents Africa most in PR. Is that a quiet instrument??? You don't know the African soul if you say that Afro-ricans are not loud......Loud doesn't have to mean "Ghetto."
palmares77 2 years ago
@roseartpr .. Nice excuse Rose but I don't buy it. I didn't see any ricans in this that reflects PR's African roots and elements.
palmares77 1 year ago
@palmares77 UUUUUUUUUU SHUT UP MLANY RICAN AND CUBAN ARE WHITE OR TAINO SO NONE BLAK STOP PRAECHINBG BLAK PRIDE THJANK YHOU
MONCTEZUMATAMARINDO 1 year ago 2
@palmares77 YOU AVE TAINO BLOOD YOU ?????????? NO SO SHUT UP THIS THE GREAT DIFERENS TO BETWEN BLAK AND LATINO
MONCTEZUMATAMARINDO 1 year ago 2
@palmares77 roseartpr is gone! her new account is Kalakekepr
chsn09 1 year ago
@chsn09 shut up stu^pid assfrosentrist nigger blakis you latinào us estupido, mamaguevo kien vas a llamr como afrosentrista ea ves,,,,,,,
MONCTEZUMATAMARINDO 1 year ago
@chsn09 AAAAAAAAAAAA DANOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CLARO TU ES DANO LO SAVEMOS ES TU SEGUNDORASISTA CUENTA
MONCTEZUMATAMARINDO 1 year ago
@palmares77 were you looking at the same video I was? Cuz last I checked the first dude in there was Black, and there were PLENTY of Mulattos in there as well, including Rosie herself.
lexdiamonds1990 1 year ago
Dude,
This was like my favorite documentary ever!
Big ups to Rosie Perez!
biggurl2fly07 3 years ago
She didn't acknowledge all of the AFRO-PUERTO RICAN ROOT ON THE ISLAND. This doc was WHITEWASHED...............
palmares77 2 years ago
Freedom for Puerto Rico!
jumpnjza2 3 years ago 5
I watched the film awhile back and I think it was very well done , especailly when you consider the fact that this is a documentary. I felt the film struck a good balance of revealing abit of Rosie's persoanl history and the overall history P.R. has had with the U.S. without becoming boring. I think she did a great job answering the main question: why are Puerto Ricans so proud? She exaplins it in the trailer clip and the film simply elaborates on the claioms she makes. It was very informative.
mlmlisa 3 years ago
@mlmlisa look stupe,puerto rico is a U.S. territory and we have every damn right to do whatever we want to do with it,practice bombing,putting chemicals into the ground whatever fits our fancy. We had to control your population otherwise the amount of kids u have every year (breeding like roaches) will be so many our tax dollars cant pay 4 them all just look at how many of u in NY on welfare now.ITS A DAMN SHAME,IF IT WASNT FOR SPIKE LEE ROSIE PEREZ WOULD BE ON WELFARE SO SHUT UP
vernontrumpet2000 1 year ago
@vernontrumpet2000 You must be white.
Thedarksecret1 1 year ago
@vernontrumpet2000 I totally agree with you.
WarmongerWW3 1 year ago
Why didn't she include her Puerto rican sisters from the group home? Rosie you sould be proud of what you're doing now and remember the one's who stood by you way back when. Much love and Pride to ya.
eita316 3 years ago
lol the begining is funny i luv it !
Jsoyummy 3 years ago
Puerto Ricans are some of the sweetest people I have ever gotten to know.
UNICORNBLUE2008 3 years ago 2
Thanks! lol
cannonballkid 3 years ago
gracias =) lol
ricankiddblaze 3 years ago
i saw this video the whole video and loved it, i learned so much about my homeland...we need more videos like this of our land
darnit989 3 years ago
Makes one wonder why African Americans aren't as proud.
sweetiepie01 3 years ago
Black Americans went through that era in the 60's. We should be proud, we've got a great deal to be proud of. I can't wait to see this film.
TruthFan 3 years ago 4
you see man that's why they need to wake up. and let's come together!
ChariotMan5 3 years ago 2