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From Omowale Pan-African Library, by Dwayne Wong (Omowale)

Puerto Rico's erased history of colonization

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Dwayne Wong (Omowale) and two others talk about Puerto Rico’s colonization. One speaker, who lives in Puerto Rico, says March 22, the anniversary of the abolition of slavery there, goes almost unmarked, and that a massacre remembered on the same day is just as little known. Another says the mainland press only began covering the hurricane’s aftermath in order to attack Donald Trump. The Puerto Rican speaker adds that the U.S. Navy bombed the island for 60 years, and that Obama had been in office eight years before he freed Oscar Lopez.

They also discuss medical experiments on Puerto Ricans. One speaker ties radioactive injections, given under cover of a vaccination program, to Cornelius Rhodes. The Puerto Rican speaker says a third of Puerto Rican women were sterilized in the 1950s and that Puerto Rican women were used to develop the birth control pill. The talk closes on World War II, and on things the Allied powers did that, one speaker says, were as bad as what is condemned in the Nazis.

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Transcribed by We Them Media from the original audio, with Dwayne’s permission. Speaker letters mark turns, as the model separated them.

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0:00Ais totally practically obliterated in Puerto Rico. Very seldom do you see Puerto Ricans, uh, like on March 22nd, that’s the day of the abolition of Puerto Rican slaves. And, um, I always attend an event on that day, but I guarantee you 99% of Puerto Ricans, they don’t even know that day exists.

0:22BActually, I just found out about that.

0:24AUnless they live in Puerto Rico. And the only reason they know in Puerto Rico, and the only reason they even know about March 22nd Puerto Rico is because they’ve made it a holiday. But on that day is also another very important holiday, and that’s the, you know, a very famous massacre where people were massacred in the town of Fawcett. Oh, that I know about. And that was really horrible, you know, all come from the American intervention.

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0:52CAnd you never hear about that.

0:53AOh, it is like taboo to -- I mean, you see programs in Puerto Rico, it’s so disgusting because All it’s like gossip shows, soap operas. The news media is so far behind. I mean, even with all that’s going on with the hurricane aftermath, they’re not even reporting 90% of what’s actually going on. They’re not even today with all of the aftermath of the hurricane.

1:20CThe only reason why they even began reporting it is because Donald Trump spoke about it, and then the media was attacking Trump’s response to Puerto Rico. But it wasn’t -- they weren’t really concerned about the Puerto Rican people. It was more of an opportunity to criticize Donald Trump first.

1:33ARight, and they’re making it look like, oh, these Republicans. Yeah, look what these Republicans are doing to Puerto Rico. I said, what, are you kidding me?

1:40CDemocrats have never done anything bad to Puerto Rico.

1:42AOh, the Democrats are just little angels. I mean, look, it took Obama -- Obama was there for 8 years before he could even liberate Oscar Lopez. And a lot of people, Puerto Ricans, would say -- I see it all the time -- well, he’s nothing but a terrorist. Why, he bombed and hurt people. Some people even got killed. But you know, they say these things because they don’t know their history. If you knew their history, Puerto Rico was bombed for 60 years just by the US Navy. And not to mention all the experiments, because the same thing that happened with African Americans here, they did that in Puerto Rico too. They used us for all types, all sorts of experiments.

2:20CI didn’t know that.

2:21AThat’s why our people are so sick today. We got such a disproportionate rate of diabetes, of asthma, different types of cancer, mental illness, and that all comes from all these experiments.

2:32BPhysical deformities.

2:34AAnd all the environmental contamination, contaminants that we’ve been exposed to, and then these things, it mutates. So, you know, you see, especially when you go live in Puerto Rico, that’s how, when I really could notice that a lot of times people, you’re born in there and you don’t really notice it because you’ve seen it. You don’t see the But when you’ve been living your life somewhere else and then you move there and you see the amount of people that have so many mental and physical deformities, you’re like, what happened here? But you know, when I first moved to Puerto Rico to live, I didn’t know. I didn’t know about how they were using us for experiments and bombing, the toxic bombs, you know, those toxics that they use in those bombings, the same thing they did in Vietnam.

3:19BYou know the radioactive injections they give you for the MRI? That came from us, from experiments on us.

3:26AThat’s what birth control pills are.

3:28BAnd the reason for that wasn’t for medical, it was because of Cornelius P. Rhodes. He had -- if you look up, if you Google Cornelius Rhodes letters, he admits with congressional approval to eradicate the Puerto Rican race. So what they did was they set up vaccination places To vaccinate the population, but in fact what they were doing was injecting people with radioactive injections.

3:55CYeah, but I mean, similar to, you know, what they did here with syphilis, where they make the people think that they’re giving them one thing and it really is another.

4:02AThat was horrible. Well, during the ’50s, 1/3 of all Puerto Rican women were sterilized. Oh, and then they used our women for the birth control pill.

4:13BAnd it was against their will. That wasn’t, uh, they would come to your house, take you, like they were screaming, yelling, and all this kind of stuff, and they’d take you, you know.

4:23CI mean, another thing too with the history, what I want to mention is, um, you know, in America when we discuss World War II and how evil and, you know, bad the Nazis were, and the United States, France, Britain, all those Allied powers, they did similar things or even worse.

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