Ya know what - Not all Puerto Ricans are lazy, government dependent people - and that WaPo article kinda pisses me off - because it presents them all as a bunch of crybabies.
Bet that there are a LOT of stories down there of folks pitching in together, finding NON-government solutions, helping each other, of surviving and vowing to come back strong. Sure would like to see some of that reported - because WE KNOW IT IS THERE. Ill bet a LOT of them are VERY HAPPY to come through that storm ALIVE - it was indeed an extremely ferocious one.
Well - excuse me - There actually IS some of that in the article - in the middle. GOOD TO SEE IT.
Cruz, San Juan’s mayor, said she has never seen such devastation, but she also said she has never seen such determination to make it. She described a phrase she keeps hearing from residents: “Yo soy Boricua. I am from Puerto Rico.”
“That has become the very courageous way of saying we are going to overcome anything that comes our way,” she said.
A janitor stopped Cruz with a request on Friday: “Tell the world we’re here,” he said, Cruz recounted. “Tell everyone we’re fighting. Tell everyone that can listen that we are going to make it.”
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