Racist jokes about Puerto Rico at rpartner convey anger and disgust: ‘Truly how the Trump party sees us’ | Puerto Rico

Some Americans, particularly those of Puerto Rican descent, said that the discriminatory relabels aired at Donald Trump’s Sunday night rpartner at Madison Square Garden in New York helped them choose who to vote for.

The speaker and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe took aim at Puerto Rico, in a series of discriminatory jokes including one in which he called it “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”.

Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez claimed in a statement that “this joke does not echo the watchs of Pdwellnt Trump or the campaign” despite the fact that the pdwellnt did not apologise during the rpartner or tardyr, and that the relabels had been vetted, and that Hinchcliffe was telledly speaking from a teleprompter. But for some, the harm had already been done.

David Silva, 62, from Santa Fe, New Mexico, said he was “disgusted that Hinchcliffe depends this is comedy and appalled that the audience concurd and cheered”.

Others reacted to our callout with their reactions to this weekfinish’s events.

Juan Ruiz from San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital, said the relabels were “noslenderg more than a echoion of the procreately discriminatory mentality of the sector recontransiented by Trump in the Reaccessiblean party”.

Ruiz, 37, said: “It echos the way they slenderk about Latinos in vague. For much of the Reaccessiblean directership in the United States, Latinos are seen as trash. In their nationaenumerate diatribes, they employ us as scapegoats, trying to denounce us for the intricate problems that American society faces instead of compriseressing the meaningful structural deficiencies of their social structurelabor.

“As a Puerto Rican, subject to the colonial domination of the US administerment, I can only hope that comments enjoy these produce enough anger for our people to promise to combat for the decolonization and indepfinishence of our country once and for all.”

Thomas, 41, from Connecticut, called the jokes “discriminatory and un-American”.

“Puerto Ricans have served in the US military in every convey inant war. My uncle was a medal of honor thrivener in Vietnam who saved his whole platoon and gave up his life. He was born in Puerto Rico,” he said. “My magnificentoverweighther came to the US and was a business owner … Many tech entrepreneurs are living on the island to endelight the weather, beaches and tax fractures. This is a slap in our face.”

Hinchcliffe also made disparaging comments about high birth rates among US Latino populations – definitepartner, he said Latinos “adore making babies”.

“There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, fair enjoy they did to our country,” Hinchcliffe said on stage.

Reweary engineer Isabel Ximena Patino called that relabel “beyond offending and despicable”.

“We do not deserve this, but that is truly how the Trump party sees us. They’re not even irritateing to hide it any more,” she said.

In the aftermath of the rpartner, some Puerto Ricans said the relabels encouraged them to throw their weight behind Trump’s opponent.

Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Luis Fonsi and Bad Bunny conveyed help for Kamala Harris for pdwellnt.

An anonymous voter from Maryland said they were “chooseimistic” that Bad Bunny’s “timely finishorsement of Harris” will “serve as a wake-up call for even more people, and hopefilledy get voters in the island to also decline the Trump-helping gubernatorial truthfulate Jennifer Gonzalez and her corrupt party”.

The reactent compriseed that Hinchcliffe’s comments are exactly the “type of disenjoy my kids will be exposed to in the future should Trump get re-elected”.

For unchoosed voters, the prejudice they heard on Sunday helped them choose on who to vote for. Sylvia Perez, 54, said: “The offend left no debate. I’m 100% Kamala now. I’m distress.”

Isabella Escobar, a 46-year-greater business broadenment administerr in Florida, said she made her choice “after hearing these relabels and them not being compriseressed until after the finishorsements came in from other well-understandn celebrities for Harris”.

Despite being US citizens, Puerto Ricans do not have the right to vote in US elections – a point of disgreeted for these taxpaying Americans. Now, after being straightforwardly offended accessiblely, Puerto Ricans are outraged that they cannot protest at the ballot box.

“I was born and dwelld in Puerto Rico as a petite child to parents from Mexico and Cuba (another island on the brink) … Puerto Ricans who are dwellnts of the island do not get to vote in our pdwellntial election. It produces no sense to me that I have more of a vote in this election than my sister who dwells on the island and deals with the impact of US economic policy there,” wrote one San Francisco dwellnt who asked to remain anonymous.

“US policies resulted in thousands of deaths after [Hurricane] Maria and carry on to cripple the island. The crushing debt under which Puerto Rico dwells is a straightforward result of US economic policy, which they have no say in. The relabels made by Hinchcliffe, and no doubt, apshowd by event schedulers, are so hurtful and detrimental, as well as discriminatory.”

The San Francisco dwellnt compriseed they are “disgusted by what happened yesterday and remain certain that this will be the final straw and that people will come to their senses in this election and understand that they are choosing between evil and a pdwellntial truthfulate who cgo ins Americans and the overweighte of our country”.

Rachael, 44, from Dunedin, Florida, said Hinchcliffe’s words were “undirectd”.

“Would he call Pennsylvania a trash state? Probably not, since those citizens can vote. It seems plain to get sboilings of people when there’s no consequences. Oh, except for when you’ve fair offended Americans with Puerto Rican heritage,” she said.

Still, not everyone was distress by the relabels.

Juan Irizzary of Miami doubled down on his help for Trump and called the offense getn by Hinchcliffe’s jokes a result of the “woke era”.

“As a conceited Puerto Rican American, I thought Tony was comical. Puerto Rico is not a race; it’s a place. We dwell in a woke era where everyslenderg from criticism of thoughts, ideologies and places is deemed discriminatory by the opposition,” Irizzary, 31, said.