Yeah, we need a token of each race here. I miss having a token Asian around. RIP Howard. Also 333 as well but that was back in the day. I have a feeling she still lurks to this day but never posts.

yeah I wanted to ask you more about what's going down in Puerto Rico. I might even make a thread about it. So I can educate myself while educating others. I did see John Oliver's piece about it but I want more details and it would be perfect to hear it from someone who is actually there. Your experiences matter.

I wasn't around then. And unlike the Cuban Missle Crisis, I never saw a document about it (the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s), so I didn't know that happened till now. Closer to modern times, in 1981 the Canadian Prog band Saga caused riots in Puerto Rico while on tour there.

Go for it, I was actually thinking of doing a thread about it too and I was gonna include that piece John Oliver did as well and also a senate hearing on the matter.

Well go ahead and create the thread, I haven't heard about the senate hearing. Was it positive or negative towards what PR is trying to do? or get out of?

There is only one race, the human race.

A bit of both but alot of the discussion focused around on whether should PR be allowed to file for chapter 9 bankruptcy and whether that would be beneficial to help us restructure our government and our debt. Since PR was taken away the right to file for chapter 9 they talked about creating a new special chapter 9 just for us but not everybody was on board with that and instead suggested to create a committee that would help us restructure our debt.

I'll eventually make the thread once I educate myself a bit more on the matter.

French Canadian raises his hand.

The box you check says white, or the more sensitively phrased "Caucasian" (despite you probably having no relation to the people of the Caucuses region).

French Canadian? As opposed to...a non French Canadian?

It's good to be white.