02/06/2019
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"Puerto Ricans do not need a congressional invitation to debate these options, and they can keep right on debating them even after Congress offers statehood."
"Congresswoman Velazquez who is the main sponsor of the other bill which I will soon discuss came to Puerto Rico and urged voters to reject statehood."
"By doing so, they seem to adopt the same reasoning used by racist and xenophobic Justices of the Supreme Court in the early 20th century that decided the infamous Insular Cases."
"However proponents of this alternative approach to label it, anything short of statehood is colonial and unequal."