Thank you for this documentary Rocco. I was born in Puerto Rico but I grew up in the Lower West Side of Buffalo also. It was awesome seeing people I grew up with and shared in the Buffalonian Puerto Rican experience. Grasias de corazon ❤💪🇵🇷
As the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother I was searching for historical documentaries and books for information. I stumbled upon this video and was taken by the Doctors presenting the information and historical video footage. I'm glad I was able to see it.
I am a child of Puerto Rican immigrants and I was born in New York city. I loved this documentary a s I am trying to learn more about my culture and the history of the islands people. Thank you so much for posting this it was enlightening. Que viva Puerto Rico mi isla del encanto.
Crudos to Prof Martínez Fernández for honoring the real dreamers of the Munoz Era, people that loved their island without looking to get rich. The reality of the times I grew up! Thanks!
Love this and loved to see the old film especially when. You showed the west side of Buffalo. NY , I remember when we had the festival on Virginia Street ❤💪🙌💗💗
I have faint memories of the festival on Virginia St. grew up on West and Virginia (and Maryland). Thank you for watching and the positive feedback. I appreciate it.
I must say, that Puerto Rico is not the Puerto Rico I knew. So, for that girl to say that the bomba is part of Haiti or Dominica Republic she has to do research. Puerto Rico is so mix that many non- Puerto Rican identified themselves as Puerto Ricans. I do not have a problem with that but I do have a problem to say that bomba is Domican or Haitian culture she's damn wrong. I was born in Puerto Rico but I learn about plena and bomba here in the mainland. What I remembered as a little girl was la Danza and la musica jibara. I love Puerto Rico but is like a main city in the main land al mixed up with different ppl and culture, please real Puerto Ricans preserve our OWN CULTURE, don't get it confused with other cultures. Keep it real!
Bomba music emerged 400 years ago from the colonial plantations where West African enslaved people and their descendants worked. Our cultural music (BOMBA), also evolved through contact between other enslaved populations from different Caribbean colonies and regions, like Santo Domingo, Haiti, and Cuba. Even though this music form emerged in Borikén, it was influenced by other Africans from other colonies.
Yes, although it is true but BOMBA is original from Puertoro. Again, I didn't know about it until I came to the main land-the music I heard was more jibara, charanga, and english.
To all who is researching your Puerto Rican heritage please do your own research. Many people whether intentional or not will mislead you when it comes to our history.
I felt and knew some deception in this video but he is brainwashed it is clear. Never once did he mention that we suffer terribly and have unbelievable intellect, language of true ancient people and know English, and Spanish. Nor that zero last names are ours, they were forced by death from Spain. It was a horror to live in the same fear my grandparents had and their grandparents. The French in the family treated us like slave hands and sex toys. They were still ready to claim our soul every day in the 1970’s.
My family has intermarried throughout the Caribbean. The Bomba is PR Tambu is Curaçao Kumina is JA Etc etc etc Mother Africa throughout the Caribe gave us the drums with dance. It is different from island to island. Same with the food. Root soup from Jamaica is similar, and I say again similar, to SanCocho. To all my Caribbean ppl please do a little “island hopping” and embrace your sisters and brothers and their “cultura único”❤
Wonderful film, my son is struggling with his identity as a Puerto Rican and African-American. This had help, I remind him he has the best of both worlds
@@gloriaserrano4817 I also have a son with that blessed mixture,I have to constantly remind him to embrace his arroz con gandules as his collard greens.
In Puerto Rico all of my families lived usually past one hundred years and a few in their 80’s departed due to Spain starvation. Very few went a few years to school and all grew, harvested and husbanding healing own life, ground, and animals exceeding any education given, or bought today. Many still had long tendons on forearms like ancient aboriginals. They knew where the primary, secondary and terciaria families lived, and all three names and who escaped the killings throughout the coffee mountains. They had deep unwaning true family love for their own. They did every need by hand.
Independence for PR, and saying it in English, meaning, themediamondotu is either a hypocrite rat neither good for the island, not for the USA, advocating for NO American citizenship for Puerto Ricans (said by the congress) or a freeloader alien exuding envy through every pore.
Fight for it. The first thing Boricuas have to do is .....to learn to respect their own country but they don't. Whatever is Puerto Rico today, is their own fault. LA PATRIA NO SE VENDE NI SE PRESTA A EXTRAJEROS PARA QUE LA UTILICEN COMO NEGOCIO PROPIO. GENTE DE REPUBLICA QUE LES CULTIVAN SUS TERRENOS , LES VENDEN LOS PRODUCTOS Y SACAN EL BILLETE FUERA. TAMBIEN ELLOS EN VEZ DE CULTIVAR COMPRAS LOS PRODUCTOS FUERA. LOS GOBERNADORES DE P.R. SE LO ROBAN TODO Y HACEN EL TRABAJO DE PRESIDENTES DE REPUBLICAS CUIDANDOLE SU GENTE Y COMPLICANDO TODO EN P.R. SACRIFICAN NUESTRA MISMA GENTE POR OTROS. TIENEN LA ISLA PODRIDA. BOTARON LO MILITAR Y METIERON EL NARCOTRAFICO . ISLA INFIERNO LO QUE ES HOY DIA P.R. ETC.
Im Mexican Boricua and white and the culture of all three is beautiful being mixed may be hard for some people finding there identity but what we all share is being proud
Oh yes the faked landing and oh yes discovered when Puerto Rico was known by the Celtics whose maps were used by the killer, rapist and serial killer CColumbus a fake name. I found an ancient book written by shipmen and they stated clearly the third Christopher Columbus trip to PR was to rape the females and people and his true name was King Ferdinand.
I’m not finished with the DOC but i’m not happy with what this guy is saying. Luis Marin, arrested his own people. It did whatever the US government wanted him to do. Puerto Rico should have been giving the chance tu rule itself & move forward without all the injustices the US has done to the land and its people.
Impressive Doc. Soy Independentista but, Its the Economy that will determine our futuro. You left out how the "jones act" is Suffocating our key to become a Beautiful/Strong Nation. Somos Un Pueblo, tenemos una Cultural, ¡Somos Una NACION! - Coincidentally born in Chicago, but even if born on the moon - Amor Boriken. 🩵🇵🇷
Thank you for the feedback and for watching my film. Yes, I would have loved to include some info regarding the Jones Act and did record some interviews footage with Rep. Soto discussing the Jones Act and how it negatively affects Puerto Rico. As a Florida Representative however, he didn't want to rid the Jones Act as it benefits the State of Florida and there really wasn't any way to fit the footage within the film in a way that made sense with the discussion being had, so I left it out. Again, I truly appreciate your feedback and for watching the film. Thank you! Rocco
What a r4t, in the USA, saying that you are independentista or better said, I am here, I do not give a d4m about what happens the people of the island. That is what an hypocrite r4t is. Not good neither for the island nor for the USA.
@@reichardful I appreciate the question. There isn't enough footage of the Jones Act discussion (I filmed) to make up a whole other documentary, but there should be enough for a short clip or two. I'll have to go back and review the raw footage/segment of that interview. From what I remember when I was filming and editing, I asked the Jones Act question and Rep. Soto responded to it, I just didn't think it fit well with the discussion as he talked more on how it positively affected Florida more so than how it has negative effects on Puerto Rico. Thank you for watching. Rocco
If you are a proud boricua . I'm gonna share something big that Americans , and PuertoRicans , don't know only a few do . Our contributions goes far back to the to the American revolution . The Spanish militia ,and navy consisting of mostly of PuertoRican soldiers , and other Caribbean islands , defeated the Redcoats in the south in seven major battles in land and sea . from Mississippi , to Florida and upper lands and were present at Bunker Hill also . Our ancestors provided provisions , weapons , and monies to pay George Washington's soldiers . If not for the defeat of the British keeping them from attacking the Patriots from the south , George Washington would've been defeated and he and the rest of the foundling fathers would have been hung by King George lll for treason against the British Crown...Learn your history we helped make the USA possible ..This part of history has been absent and no credit given us , and I wonder why ? for reference look up General Bernardo Galvez Puertorican soldiers .
Same goes for the Cuban war and rebelión, they would’ve been all losses if puertorricans wouldn’t have given a hand because they were unarmed. Eñangotao’ desde el ADN!!
Taino,🤙🏼 too many of em ignored Taino sides but only care about Spanish and African dances n musics but thats ok us Taino community gonna keep going keep culture alive.
1:13:16 You left out Baltimore there are Puerto Ricans living in the Highlandtown district. I can understand NYC because of the nonsense hype but why mention Boston and Philadelphia? What so special about those cities? Between Boston and Washington D.C. there are Puerto Ricans populating. So do you mean to say Bos- Wash? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
Bostonian here, and I can tell you that Puerto Ricans are proud of being Puerto Ricans, we have Puerto Rican neighborhoods and even the huge Puerto Rican festivals held at city hall. Of course those cities are special, a ton of us boricuas live there
Born to in BOS to a PR born mom and the PR festivals in 90s 2000s was the main thing that connected me to my culture. There were huge Pr population before the Dr came and pr moved to Orlando , Worcester RI etc but there were 2 diff huge pr festivals in bos
@@EE-dn9ognever been to Boston. I wish I could have covered more PR communities in the film, but stuck to the places I was familiar with; Buffalo, NYC and Orlando. Thank you for watching and commenting. Best, Rocco Anastasio
Boricua Hispanic India n black iam.. pedro albizu Campo. He love Puerto Rico n die for Puerto rican. Muños took the money that America offers. Pedro want to unite other latino like cuba santo domingo Salvador n Peru he want a south Latin America. Like usa have a lot of state or country. Pedro want to do the same thing but for latino n the south belongs to us, we mix both of my grandmother was dark skin, some Puerto rican look white but they not 100 porcent . 😮 both of my grandfather was white . 😮 . Many people like us play the African drums . The India was the first slave , because the Spanish took the woman n they took the gold.
Boricua, hey, we started mixing 100 years before Jamestown, so in 100 years, USA will look Boricua! Never forget the baile, botella y baraja of 500 years!
If Puerto Ricans decide upon U.S. Statehood, then I'd highly recommend writing the State's Constitution in BOTH Spanish & English (as both California & New Mexico did).
It is already done. Check it on official government website in the Internet. (And both languages are official languages, even today, without statehood and being a US terrortory.)
@@virgiliofernandoacevedo6338 I just had a thought (BTW: I haven't yet looked at that Constitution on-line yet)... If not already in Puerto Rico's Constitution, I would highly recommend an Amendment to cover non-Puerto-Ricans from being able to own land, especially quickly & easily, without first meeting certain requirements - much like the Philippine Islands does in regards to non-Filippino-citizen residents there; for, a foreigner must first live in the Philippines for 5-to-10 years depending upon any Filippino-Foreigner marriage connection, & speak a Filippino dialect in addition to English or Spanish, be of good moral character, & aquire land by paying for it without yet actually owning it - before the foreigner can even apply to be considered for Philippine Island Citizenship (as being a Filippino Citizen is a pre-requisite to becoming a land owner in the Philippines). Now in the special case of Puerto Rico whose People might not want independence from the U.S., I'd go one step further & make some similar conditions for U.S. mainlanders, especially those without any Puerto Rican heritage - else all current U.S. citizens could quickly buy up Puerto Rico & displace the Puerto Ricans (& don't think that this can't happen because it happens within the U.S.A. quite a bit - & often immediately following a "natural disaster" if not purely by economic manipulation... for their are domestic as well as foreign enemies here, some of which are in places of power &/or influence). Just saying, Be Wary Tainos (Remember, Tainos are "The Good Guys," & not everyone else is). 🇵🇷😎👍
El que tu comas comida tradicional de Puerto Rico no hace a un New Yorican Boricua. Lo siento. Hay que vivir alla. No es un pecado ser New Yorican de padres puertorriquenos. Por que tanto lamento.
Rocco a good example of been Puerto Riican is the 5000 Puerto Ricans man woman an children that emigrated to Hawaii to cut sugar you would think that they would lost their identity instead they tribe and keep their purtorican tradition and love for the island they never visited anyone wants to learn more Google Puerto Ricans in Hawaii. And you are Puerto. Rican because your mo blood an u enviroment,😮😮😊😊
Great point about the community of Boricuas who moved to Hawaii and settled there and created their own unique community. Love it, we are everywhere and carry our traditions and customs wherever we go. I would have loved to have had an opportunity to capture the Hawaiian Boricua experience, but it wasn't in the plans for this film. Maybe next time. Best, Rocco
You are kidding me, right? There is no “Boricua”. There is Bohiken in Taino. Mispronounced by the Spaniards into Borinquen. From which Borincano or Borinqueño are derived. Look up the Classical Island Literature and you will not find Boricua anywhere. Later this “elecua” version starts going around from unknown origins and is popularized particularly by the Newyorikans in later generations along with the Spanglish that comes back to the Island with visiting and repatriating descendants of migrating Borinqueños. Just like the Island wasn’t named Puerto Rico, which your presentation states as a matter of historical fact, but San Juan Bautista del Puerto Rico. Which later in the records of lazy scribes became the name of the Walled City in the small island of San Juan and the Del Puerto Rico description became the oficial name of the Main Island. Something similar to the Phenomenon of the United States Of America becoming the America, when there are 3 such named land masses in the Western Hemisphere. Pretty much everybody in North, Central and South America is an American, but no American Citizenship is the exclusive domain and right of USA passport carrying individuals. Boricua is the product of illiterate and/or under educated popular culture that rouses the masses at music concerts of popular interpreters of Puerto Rican music, yes not Portorican music like the speech impaired Gringos like to say. Did you know that Gringo was applied to any generally white English speaker in the Americas, not just from the US as many Borinqueños think. So stop fabricating a myth without factual foundation, such as the internet version of history where “Boricua”was described as being used by the Taínos of the Island to refer to themselves. They would not have because it is not Taino but a transliteration to Archaic Spanish of the time.
I do have a problem because they think mofongo and pasteles are theirs and we are stolen from them what's next ? Piña colada? Chuleta can can our slang?
“These islands (Cuba and Puerto Rico) are natural appendages to the North American Continent. Cuba in almost sight of our shores, from a multitudes of consideration has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interest of our Union.” John Quincy Adams Cuban and Puerto Rican statehood is critical for securing Hispanic POWER. Central America and DR can be candidates for Statehood in the future.
My father knew the greater history and always said that at one time in history we had families from lower USA and up the coast to the Connecticut Indigenous and even the Apache. In history the true now deceased Mexican and even Honduras shared people families. History has Arawak and Taino to the Amazon jungle and through Mexico and even Argentina. Celtics arrived first settling and mapping and the islands. The look of early dark skin Celtics is found in those curly hair and bronze gold peoples. There were over one hundred Kings and Queens on Puerto Rico. Each family owned gold and land and considered royals just like Hawaii. We were silenced.
Prove me wrong…..but I have an Annexation theory supported by historical facts. The Panama Canal was started by the French. If it had been finished by them I bet a bunch of Central American countries would be speaking French today. When the Canal company went bankrupt, guess who wanted in? The Germans….. Why? Because France, England, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal had a presence in the Caribbean, which is the US backyard and Germany did not. From my studying the history of the Panama Canal, I concluded that one of the main reasons for the US to take it over was to prevent Germany (who was negotiating with France) to control the backyard. Then WW1 broke out against who? Germany, and then WW2 broke out against who again? Germany. Consider fighting a deflated Spain and taking Puerto Rico as a proxy war with Germany. So in conclusion, Puerto Rico was taken to prevent Germany accessing the Northern Atlantic and the Caribbean with impunity.
Patria NO es lo mismo q nacionalidad. Hay mucho puertorriqueño “expatriao” y mucho AMERICANO q se identifica con la patria de PR y jamás ha pisado la isla. Eso NO re-identifica lo q está definido: origen. A donde comenzó la existencia de esa persona? Solo por identificar cuantas alcapurrias tiene en “la papa” NO equivale, así cualquiera! Mi esposo 100% italiano comiendo bacalao puertorriqueño todos los finde.. gente, identifíquese! En PR se sabe lo q es un pionono y a eso q le llaman “cultura” se cultiva hasta sin intención, ni fiestas patronales. Es la memoria (real) de nuestro entorno al crecer, visitar a abuela en el campo y comer de su arroz tapado con penca de plátano, q mamá te lleve a san Juan y te diga q no vayas pa la perla, y lo q define una “guaynabi..” QUIEN te enseña eso visceralmente y no sintéticamente cuando naces en EU y desde q sales del hospital vas en airecito acondicionado? Háblame de las calores en verano q no hay quien las escape, de acostarte en un piso de cemento pa refrescar, q tengas un hermano (FULL, mamá y papá) negrito y tú seas hincha.. q tengas un pana q le apodan “tisne” y no se ofenda cuando la jincha se lo menciona… q el Spanglish es natural 65/35 ESPAÑOL, NO inglés… hay quienes se tatúan la bandera en la frente pa q no se lo cuestionen y hay quien en medio de fincas de soya y maíz en EU, SABEN q esa nariz, Bemba y acento no se puede esconder!
Puerto Ricans always complaining, but I do not hear anyone complaining about the plague of drug mules invading the island along the coasts to fill the island, NY and the rest of the USA of drugs, or better said crime and delinquency and to live at expenses of Puerto Rican tax payers.. Puerto Rico has the best economy status than the Caribbean, Centro and South America according to statistics given by Jaime Bayly who was comparing the minimum salary in each country. So what are you complaining about.Worse, those who complain live in the USA or if aliens crawl themselves th have what Puerto Ricans take for granted. the USA citizenship.
😂New Information found! We are HUMAN! ALL RELATED! South American, Arab, and Arowak Indian! Jews and Arabs are related just like Dominicans, and Puerto Ricans. Free Palestine!
Dominicanos have contributed with nothing to the island, just flooding the island and the USA of drugs, or better said crime and delinquency and to live at the expenses of Puerto Ricans on the island.
We used to go to Bomba dances in USA so good and with crowds of Dominican and Haitians I never once heard their bomba shouts a suntzu, nor saw them wear the clothes nor dance. It was fun and good and wise.
Educación, orgullo, cultura, respeto.
This was SPECTACULAR! Very well produced & executed.
Love our culture & its people!
Thank you, I appreciate the feedback
Thank you for this documentary Rocco. I was born in Puerto Rico but I grew up in the Lower West Side of Buffalo also. It was awesome seeing people I grew up with and shared in the Buffalonian Puerto Rican experience. Grasias de corazon ❤💪🇵🇷
Thank you! I appreciate the kind feedback. It was a labor of love. Thank you for watching.
Best,
Rocco Anastasio
I agree Freddy I remember the old days when we had the festivals and many other great memories as a kid and growing up on the West side 🙌💪🔥❤️
As the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother I was searching for historical documentaries and books for information. I stumbled upon this video and was taken by the Doctors presenting the information and historical video footage. I'm glad I was able to see it.
Thank you
Thanks God for The Island of Lamb my identity ❤
I am a child of Puerto Rican immigrants and I was born in New York city. I loved this documentary a s I am trying to learn more about my culture and the history of the islands people.
Thank you so much for posting this it was enlightening. Que viva Puerto Rico mi isla del encanto.
I want to say,we Puerto Ricans aren't immigrants.
Immigrants?!
@@luze.camacho458 No, we are not, and that hurts the freeloader aliens who exude envy through every pore.
You need an history class
@@mindy2215 "freeloader aliens"? From one PR to another, I don't think that's a good attitude to have.
Very nice, well done. Thank You
Thank you, I truly appreciate your feedback
Crudos to Prof Martínez Fernández for honoring the real dreamers of the Munoz Era, people that loved their island without looking to get rich. The reality of the times I grew up! Thanks!
Puerto Rico Libre
Love this and loved to see the old film especially when. You showed the west side of Buffalo. NY , I remember when we had the festival on Virginia Street ❤💪🙌💗💗
I have faint memories of the festival on Virginia St. grew up on West and Virginia (and Maryland). Thank you for watching and the positive feedback. I appreciate it.
I must say, that Puerto Rico is not the Puerto Rico I knew. So, for that girl to say that the bomba is part of Haiti or Dominica Republic she has to do research. Puerto Rico is so mix that many non- Puerto Rican identified themselves as Puerto Ricans. I do not have a problem with that but I do have a problem to say that bomba is Domican or Haitian culture she's damn wrong. I was born in Puerto Rico but I learn about plena and bomba here in the mainland. What I remembered as a little girl was la Danza and la musica jibara. I love Puerto Rico but is like a main city in the main land al mixed up with different ppl and culture, please real Puerto Ricans preserve our OWN CULTURE, don't get it confused with other cultures. Keep it real!
BOMBA IS AS Puerto Rican as the coquiand es de AQUI.
We’re NOT Dominican. We love our neighbors but they’re absolutely not the same people or culture
WEPA, cantaselo! 🌺🦜🦎🌴
Bomba music emerged 400 years ago from the colonial plantations where West African enslaved people and their descendants worked. Our cultural music (BOMBA), also evolved through contact between other enslaved populations from different Caribbean colonies and regions, like Santo Domingo, Haiti, and Cuba.
Even though this music form emerged in Borikén, it was influenced by other Africans from other colonies.
Yes, although it is true but BOMBA is original from Puertoro. Again, I didn't know about it until I came to the main land-the music I heard was more jibara, charanga, and english.
To all who is researching your Puerto Rican heritage please do your own research. Many people whether intentional or not will mislead you when it comes to our history.
Ciertamente.
I felt and knew some deception in this video but he is brainwashed it is clear. Never once did he mention that we suffer terribly and have unbelievable intellect, language of true ancient people and know English, and Spanish. Nor that zero last names are ours, they were forced by death from Spain. It was a horror to live in the same fear my grandparents had and their grandparents. The French in the family treated us like slave hands and sex toys. They were still ready to claim our soul every day in the 1970’s.
My family has intermarried throughout the Caribbean.
The Bomba is PR
Tambu is Curaçao
Kumina is JA
Etc etc etc
Mother Africa throughout the Caribe gave us the drums with dance.
It is different from island to island.
Same with the food.
Root soup from Jamaica is similar, and I say again similar, to SanCocho.
To all my Caribbean ppl please do a little “island hopping” and embrace your sisters and brothers and their “cultura único”❤
Finn loved your comment I know this same history as true.
Wonderful film, my son is struggling with his identity as a Puerto Rican and African-American. This had help, I remind him he has the best of both worlds
@@gloriaserrano4817 I also have a son with that blessed mixture,I have to constantly remind him to embrace his arroz con gandules as his collard greens.
In Puerto Rico all of my families lived usually past one hundred years and a few in their 80’s departed due to Spain starvation. Very few went a few years to school and all grew, harvested and husbanding healing own life, ground, and animals exceeding any education given, or bought today. Many still had long tendons on forearms like ancient aboriginals. They knew where the primary, secondary and terciaria families lived, and all three names and who escaped the killings throughout the coffee mountains. They had deep unwaning true family love for their own. They did every need by hand.
PUERTO RICO INDEPENDENCE!! ✊🏽🇵🇷🏝️✨
Independence for PR, and saying it in English, meaning, themediamondotu is either a hypocrite rat neither good for the island, not for the USA, advocating for NO American citizenship for Puerto Ricans (said by the congress) or a freeloader alien exuding envy through every pore.
Fight for it. The first thing Boricuas have to do is .....to learn to respect their own country but they don't. Whatever is Puerto Rico today, is their own fault. LA PATRIA NO SE VENDE NI SE PRESTA A EXTRAJEROS PARA QUE LA UTILICEN COMO NEGOCIO PROPIO. GENTE DE REPUBLICA QUE LES CULTIVAN SUS TERRENOS , LES VENDEN LOS PRODUCTOS Y SACAN EL BILLETE FUERA. TAMBIEN ELLOS EN VEZ DE CULTIVAR COMPRAS LOS PRODUCTOS FUERA. LOS GOBERNADORES DE P.R. SE LO ROBAN TODO Y HACEN EL TRABAJO DE PRESIDENTES DE REPUBLICAS CUIDANDOLE SU GENTE Y COMPLICANDO TODO EN P.R. SACRIFICAN NUESTRA MISMA GENTE POR OTROS. TIENEN LA ISLA PODRIDA. BOTARON LO MILITAR Y METIERON EL NARCOTRAFICO . ISLA INFIERNO LO QUE ES HOY DIA P.R. ETC.
Libre! No matter how much we have to fight
Im Mexican Boricua and white and the culture of all three is beautiful being mixed may be hard for some people finding there identity but what we all share is being proud
Weeepppaaaaaa!!!
UsA use PR as Laboratory for theirs business
Aquí hay información falso broski.
Let's not forget "the doctrine of discovery" that Christopher Columbus brought to us
And he was a Jew
y luego reunificarse con España
@@oscarmeneurubio3330thank you my witness👊
Oh yes the faked landing and oh yes discovered when Puerto Rico was known by the Celtics whose maps were used by the killer, rapist and serial killer CColumbus a fake name. I found an ancient book written by shipmen and they stated clearly the third Christopher Columbus trip to PR was to rape the females and people and his true name was King Ferdinand.
Puerto Rican and Italian? That is really good food from both sides! 🤤
I was thinking the same thing
I’m not finished with the DOC but i’m not happy with what this guy is saying. Luis Marin, arrested his own people. It did whatever the US government wanted him to do. Puerto Rico should have been giving the chance tu rule itself & move forward without all the injustices the US has done to the land and its people.
Impressive Doc. Soy Independentista but, Its the Economy that will determine our futuro. You left out how the "jones act" is Suffocating our key to become a Beautiful/Strong Nation. Somos Un Pueblo, tenemos una Cultural, ¡Somos Una NACION! - Coincidentally born in Chicago, but even if born on the moon - Amor Boriken. 🩵🇵🇷
Thank you for the feedback and for watching my film. Yes, I would have loved to include some info regarding the Jones Act and did record some interviews footage with Rep. Soto discussing the Jones Act and how it negatively affects Puerto Rico. As a Florida Representative however, he didn't want to rid the Jones Act as it benefits the State of Florida and there really wasn't any way to fit the footage within the film in a way that made sense with the discussion being had, so I left it out.
Again, I truly appreciate your feedback and for watching the film. Thank you!
Rocco
I Apologize for hurting the chances of floridians climbing out of their 48% below the poverty level, ¿Que estaba pensando?
What a r4t, in the USA, saying that you are independentista or better said, I am here, I do not give a d4m about what happens the people of the island. That is what an hypocrite r4t is. Not good neither for the island nor for the USA.
@@AnastasioMediamaybe another documentary about Jones Act with that footage?
@@reichardful I appreciate the question. There isn't enough footage of the Jones Act discussion (I filmed) to make up a whole other documentary, but there should be enough for a short clip or two. I'll have to go back and review the raw footage/segment of that interview. From what I remember when I was filming and editing, I asked the Jones Act question and Rep. Soto responded to it, I just didn't think it fit well with the discussion as he talked more on how it positively affected Florida more so than how it has negative effects on Puerto Rico.
Thank you for watching.
Rocco
I wish PR would have kept their true language.
Martinez is rigjt. We have kept divided for more than 500 years by Spain and the USA and do with us what they pleased. Keep us fighting!
We need someone with the ideology of Nayib Bukele Salvador's president.
I wish I can explore all Puerto Rican mixture of cultures of people's background
PR now is not even have of what PR was. Is alot bad things Santería, drugs, aids horrible.
Santeria always been there tho
If you are a proud boricua . I'm gonna share something big that Americans , and PuertoRicans , don't know only a few do . Our contributions goes far back to the to the American revolution . The Spanish militia ,and navy consisting of mostly of PuertoRican soldiers , and other Caribbean islands , defeated the Redcoats in the south in seven major battles in land and sea . from Mississippi , to Florida and upper lands and were present at Bunker Hill also . Our ancestors provided provisions , weapons , and monies to pay George Washington's soldiers . If not for the defeat of the British keeping them from attacking the Patriots from the south , George Washington would've been defeated and he and the rest of the foundling fathers would have been hung by King George lll for treason against the British Crown...Learn your history we helped make the USA possible ..This part of history has been absent and no credit given us , and I wonder why ? for reference look up General Bernardo Galvez Puertorican soldiers .
Same goes for the Cuban war and rebelión, they would’ve been all losses if puertorricans wouldn’t have given a hand because they were unarmed. Eñangotao’ desde el ADN!!
My Father is half Puerto Rican half Italian
My Mother is Italian
This is the safest thing .borinken belongs to the native Taino people you should be ashame
Taino,🤙🏼 too many of em ignored Taino sides but only care about Spanish and African dances n musics but thats ok us Taino community gonna keep going keep culture alive.
1:13:16 You left out Baltimore there are Puerto Ricans living in the Highlandtown district. I can understand NYC because of the nonsense hype but why mention Boston and Philadelphia? What so special about those cities? Between Boston and Washington D.C. there are Puerto Ricans populating. So do you mean to say Bos- Wash? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
Bostonian here, and I can tell you that Puerto Ricans are proud of being Puerto Ricans, we have Puerto Rican neighborhoods and even the huge Puerto Rican festivals held at city hall. Of course those cities are special, a ton of us boricuas live there
There’s Puerto Rican communities in Boston and Philadelphia
Born to in BOS to a PR born mom and the PR festivals in 90s 2000s was the main thing that connected me to my culture. There were huge Pr population before the Dr came and pr moved to Orlando , Worcester RI etc but there were 2 diff huge pr festivals in bos
@@EE-dn9ognever been to Boston. I wish I could have covered more PR communities in the film, but stuck to the places I was familiar with; Buffalo, NYC and Orlando. Thank you for watching and commenting.
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Rocco Anastasio
Boricua Hispanic India n black iam.. pedro albizu Campo. He love Puerto Rico n die for Puerto rican. Muños took the money that America offers. Pedro want to unite other latino like cuba santo domingo Salvador n Peru he want a south Latin America. Like usa have a lot of state or country. Pedro want to do the same thing but for latino n the south belongs to us, we mix both of my grandmother was dark skin, some Puerto rican look white but they not 100 porcent . 😮 both of my grandfather was white . 😮 . Many people like us play the African drums . The India was the first slave , because the Spanish took the woman n they took the gold.
I lived this history you said it, hechalo hai Que sepan. Pero lla se olvidaron de los males que nos hacen y hicieron.
Boricua, hey, we started mixing 100 years before Jamestown, so in 100 years, USA will look Boricua! Never forget the baile, botella y baraja of 500 years!
If Puerto Ricans decide upon U.S. Statehood, then I'd highly recommend writing the State's Constitution in BOTH Spanish & English (as both California & New Mexico did).
It is already done. Check it on official government website in the Internet. (And both languages are official languages, even today, without statehood and being a US terrortory.)
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I just had a thought (BTW: I haven't yet looked at that Constitution on-line yet)...
If not already in Puerto Rico's Constitution, I would highly recommend an Amendment to cover non-Puerto-Ricans from being able to own land, especially quickly & easily, without first meeting certain requirements - much like the Philippine Islands does in regards to non-Filippino-citizen residents there; for, a foreigner must first live in the Philippines for 5-to-10 years depending upon any Filippino-Foreigner marriage connection, & speak a Filippino dialect in addition to English or Spanish, be of good moral character, & aquire land by paying for it without yet actually owning it - before the foreigner can even apply to be considered for Philippine Island Citizenship (as being a Filippino Citizen is a pre-requisite to becoming a land owner in the Philippines).
Now in the special case of Puerto Rico whose People might not want independence from the U.S., I'd go one step further & make some similar conditions for U.S. mainlanders, especially those without any Puerto Rican heritage - else all current U.S. citizens could quickly buy up Puerto Rico & displace the Puerto Ricans (& don't think that this can't happen because it happens within the U.S.A. quite a bit - & often immediately following a "natural disaster" if not purely by economic manipulation... for their are domestic as well as foreign enemies here, some of which are in places of power &/or influence).
Just saying, Be Wary Tainos (Remember, Tainos are "The Good Guys," & not everyone else is).
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Good discussion! Thanks for checking the film out.
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Thanks for presenting it.
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El que tu comas comida tradicional de Puerto Rico no hace a un New Yorican Boricua. Lo siento. Hay que vivir alla. No es un pecado ser New Yorican de padres puertorriquenos. Por que tanto lamento.
Rocco a good example of been Puerto Riican is the 5000 Puerto Ricans man woman an children that emigrated to Hawaii to cut sugar you would think that they would lost their identity instead they tribe and keep their purtorican tradition and love for the island they never visited anyone wants to learn more Google Puerto Ricans in Hawaii. And you are Puerto. Rican because your mo blood an u enviroment,😮😮😊😊
Great point about the community of Boricuas who moved to Hawaii and settled there and created their own unique community. Love it, we are everywhere and carry our traditions and customs wherever we go.
I would have loved to have had an opportunity to capture the Hawaiian Boricua experience, but it wasn't in the plans for this film. Maybe next time.
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Rocco
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El primer nombre que le pusieron los españoles a puerto rico fue san juan bautista no fue puerto rico.
¿no era Boriken?
@@AnastasioMedia me refería al nombre que le pusieron los españoles, pero antes de los españoles era boriquén así es.
Este hombre no sabia nada hablo sus disparates.
Puerto Rico, España.
STATEHOOD FOR PUERTO RICO .
If someone was born in Florida or Texas or any other state , are the Floridians are going to call themselves Texians or New Yorkers? :/
The act Jones was killed, now we are in the limbo :/
You are kidding me, right? There is no “Boricua”. There is Bohiken in Taino. Mispronounced by the Spaniards into Borinquen. From which Borincano or Borinqueño are derived. Look up the Classical Island Literature and you will not find Boricua anywhere.
Later this “elecua” version starts going around from unknown origins and is popularized particularly by the Newyorikans in later generations along with the Spanglish that comes back to the Island with visiting and repatriating descendants of migrating Borinqueños. Just like the Island wasn’t named Puerto Rico, which your presentation states as a matter of historical fact, but San Juan Bautista del Puerto Rico. Which later in the records of lazy scribes became the name of the Walled City in the small island of San Juan and the Del Puerto Rico description became the oficial name of the Main Island. Something similar to the Phenomenon of the United States Of America becoming the America, when there are 3 such named land masses in the Western Hemisphere. Pretty much everybody in North, Central and South America is an American, but no American Citizenship is the exclusive domain and right of USA passport carrying individuals. Boricua is the product of illiterate and/or under educated popular culture that rouses the masses at music concerts of popular interpreters of Puerto Rican music, yes not Portorican music like the speech impaired Gringos like to say. Did you know that Gringo was applied to any generally white English speaker in the Americas, not just from the US as many Borinqueños think. So stop fabricating a myth without factual foundation, such as the internet version of history where “Boricua”was described as being used by the Taínos of the Island to refer to themselves. They would not have because it is not Taino but a transliteration to Archaic Spanish of the time.
I do have a problem because they think mofongo and pasteles are theirs and we are stolen from them what's next ? Piña colada? Chuleta can can our slang?
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LMAO nobody but the tiny fringe in Puerto Rico wants independence dude. Talking about independence is just bad fan fiction
@TWE_2000 amazing what indoctrination will do isn't it.. you know nothing about struggle. Beat it..
@@gboogie360 And...? Nothing you said disputes the fact that the vast majority of Puerto Ricans don’t support independence.
@TWE_2000 so you think.
@@gboogie360 Literally every plebiscite and survey shows that independence is unpopular. Its not my fault you believe your own fan fiction
Is not that complicated to understand the terms Boricua and New Yorican, pls.
You actually watched a one hour show on rico ???
“These islands (Cuba and Puerto Rico) are natural appendages to the North American Continent. Cuba in almost sight of our shores, from a multitudes of consideration has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interest of our Union.”
John Quincy Adams
Cuban and Puerto Rican statehood is critical for securing Hispanic POWER.
Central America and DR can be candidates for Statehood in the future.
My father knew the greater history and always said that at one time in history we had families from lower USA and up the coast to the Connecticut Indigenous and even the Apache. In history the true now deceased Mexican and even Honduras shared people families. History has Arawak and Taino to the Amazon jungle and through Mexico and even Argentina. Celtics arrived first settling and mapping and the islands. The look of early dark skin Celtics is found in those curly hair and bronze gold peoples. There were over one hundred Kings and Queens on Puerto Rico. Each family owned gold and land and considered royals just like Hawaii. We were silenced.
Being boricua is being caribeño. Boricuas tend to be conservstive unless other latinos.
they are not latinos, they are spanish
Prove me wrong…..but I have an Annexation theory supported by historical facts. The Panama Canal was started by the French. If it had been finished by them I bet a bunch of Central American countries would be speaking French today. When the Canal company went bankrupt, guess who wanted in? The Germans….. Why? Because France, England, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal had a presence in the Caribbean, which is the US backyard and Germany did not. From my studying the history of the Panama Canal, I concluded that one of the main reasons for the US to take it over was to prevent Germany (who was negotiating with France) to control the backyard. Then WW1 broke out against who? Germany, and then WW2 broke out against who again? Germany. Consider fighting a deflated Spain and taking Puerto Rico as a proxy war with Germany. So in conclusion, Puerto Rico was taken to prevent Germany accessing the Northern Atlantic and the Caribbean with impunity.
Patria NO es lo mismo q nacionalidad. Hay mucho puertorriqueño “expatriao” y mucho AMERICANO q se identifica con la patria de PR y jamás ha pisado la isla.
Eso NO re-identifica lo q está definido: origen. A donde comenzó la existencia de esa persona?
Solo por identificar cuantas alcapurrias tiene en “la papa” NO equivale, así cualquiera! Mi esposo 100% italiano comiendo bacalao puertorriqueño todos los finde.. gente, identifíquese!
En PR se sabe lo q es un pionono y a eso q le llaman “cultura” se cultiva hasta sin intención, ni fiestas patronales. Es la memoria (real) de nuestro entorno al crecer, visitar a abuela en el campo y comer de su arroz tapado con penca de plátano, q mamá te lleve a san Juan y te diga q no vayas pa la perla, y lo q define una “guaynabi..”
QUIEN te enseña eso visceralmente y no sintéticamente cuando naces en EU y desde q sales del hospital vas en airecito acondicionado? Háblame de las calores en verano q no hay quien las escape, de acostarte en un piso de cemento pa refrescar, q tengas un hermano (FULL, mamá y papá) negrito y tú seas hincha.. q tengas un pana q le apodan “tisne” y no se ofenda cuando la jincha se lo menciona… q el Spanglish es natural 65/35 ESPAÑOL, NO inglés… hay quienes se tatúan la bandera en la frente pa q no se lo cuestionen y hay quien en medio de fincas de soya y maíz en EU, SABEN q esa nariz, Bemba y acento no se puede esconder!
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Puerto Ricans always complaining, but I do not hear anyone complaining about the plague of drug mules invading the island along the coasts to fill the island, NY and the rest of the USA of drugs, or better said crime and delinquency and to live at expenses of Puerto Rican tax payers.. Puerto Rico has the best economy status than the Caribbean, Centro and South America according to statistics given by Jaime Bayly who was comparing the minimum salary in each country. So what are you complaining about.Worse, those who complain live in the USA or if aliens crawl themselves th have what Puerto Ricans take for granted. the USA citizenship.
Jesus..
Of yourself and not including our ancestors.CONJO
😂New Information found! We are HUMAN! ALL RELATED! South American, Arab, and Arowak Indian! Jews and Arabs are related just like Dominicans, and Puerto Ricans. Free Palestine!
Not likening the connection of bomba to dominicanos. Our African descent, rebelión did not start outside of Borikua.
Dominicanos have contributed with nothing to the island, just flooding the island and the USA of drugs, or better said crime and delinquency and to live at the expenses of Puerto Ricans on the island.
We used to go to Bomba dances in USA so good and with crowds of Dominican and Haitians I never once heard their bomba shouts a suntzu, nor saw them wear the clothes nor dance. It was fun and good and wise.