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In Allentown, a predominantly Latino city where more than 30,000 Puerto Ricans live, a comedian’s racist joke during a recent Donald Trump rally continues to get people talking. And to offer the Democrats a solid argument at the end of the campaign in this “swing state”.
The anger does not subside. Especially since it is skillfully maintained on a daily basis by Kamala Harris’ campaign teams, well aware of having received an unexpected gift from the rival camp, so close to the election. On October 27, during a Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, a comedian portrayed Puerto Rico, an American territory in the Caribbean, in “floating garbage island”. A joke deemed racist and humiliating, which spread like wildfire within the Puerto Rican diaspora, numbering 6 million people in the United States.
“This vile comment not only offended me. He twisted my guts”says Jennifer Rios, 33 years old, mother of two young children “Puerto Ricans proud of their land of origin”. A volunteer for Make the Road, a political organization led by immigrants, this resident of Allentown, a town in Pennsylvania where more than 30,000 Puerto Ricans live, is working harder than ever to convince the Hispanic community to vote on November 5 for Kamala Harris. “I tell them to make it a family affair, to go and vote with their neighbors, parents, brothers
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