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Bad Bunny, the Halftime Moment, and Puerto Rico's Turn · D-constructing Topics

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  that are going on in this world to trying to like break you in
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  and take a side or anything to that effect this is the deconstructing topic
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  the mind is saving the life that's for sure and i think a couple of i'm not
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  gonna say a couple a handful more than a handful people have reached out to
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  me and be like hey david what's going on talk to me,
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  what's your take on the bat bunny situation and so on and so forth and i'm gonna
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  say is this your legendary host of this podcast months ago way months ago before it was announced.
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  I've uh kind of have told people hey listen he's gonna
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  be in the halftime show and then two or three weeks later he was in a halftime
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  show and we're talking about bad money i kind of knew that there was something
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  was gonna happen because i think that he was performing to rehearse in the super
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  bowl halftime and you know a lot of people are just like hey listen david so
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  talk to me and And everybody,
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  I mean, I think I've done heard every opinion that one can count.
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  But let me just tell you this side of things.
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  Because I'm one to say, look, I'm Puerto Rican, born in Puerto Rico.
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  So shout out to the brother Benito out there. He did his thing.
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  Whatever he did, he did his thing. I'm one in the mindset that now is our time.
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  The ball, you know, he did the halftime show right there in the Super Bowl.
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  And then the Super Bowl is key, and football is key when you have to,
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  there's a saying that when you have the ball in your court, then you got to score, right?
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  And I want to say that the Puerto Rican and the Latino community,
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  we have the ball in our court.
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  Tenemos el balón, I'm going to say in Spanish. I'm going to hear a little bit of Spanish.
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  Pero tenemos el balón en nuestra cancha. And we dictate what's going to happen
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  next, and we need to dictate what's going to happen.
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  But I always, and I've mentioned a couple of times, And I, you know,
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  It's always on the description.
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  If there was a little inspiration to the halftime show would be one and none
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  other than Pedro Albizu Campo, which, you know, I definitely got to do my podcast work on that situation.
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  When he won state in the 1950s.
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  Each generation has to gather the ashes of their elders.
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  Those who do not revere the ashes of their elders are truly dead, the elders.
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  Think about that. And I'm saying, and every time that there's a situation where
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  we are put in a spotlight, and I'm trying to explain to people,
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  for those people that were not a fan, claiming that he doesn't represent us,
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  and et cetera, et cetera, all I'm saying is this.
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  It's very seldom when somebody is put in that pedestal that it's us, right?
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  Whether you are, you know, some of his music early on, he has mature.
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  Keep in mind is this, that when you're like 21, 20, you're going to be rapping
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  about something different than when you're 30.
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  So, you know, I want to remind people that he's been performing for quite a while.
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  I know that some people, you know, some of the music in his early,
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  it's a little bit, you know, questionable, but he's moving on to a different stage in his life.
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  To talk about a little bit of everything. Now, my thing is this.
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  And I'm one that have been critical of Bad Bunny in the past.
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  And this is anybody who's in the pro-LBGT movement.
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  And sometimes it's just so weird how we could say, oh, yeah,
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  we're in the LBGT plus movement.
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  You know, we believe in equality, but then at the same time,
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  promote products of companies that have, let's say, business with countries
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  that are anti-LBGT. You understand?
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  So it's kind of like hypocritical and I was kind of critical about that with Bad Bunny years ago.
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  And people was like, hey, you know, that makes sense.
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  But this happens a lot. This is what America is.
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  America is like that propaganda machine. You dance with the devil and you dance with angels.
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  You eat with both at the same table. And one can say that hey,
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  listen, if we boycott everything, we redo everything, we'll be on total shutdown.
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  And what I'm saying is this.
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  If this individual was the number one worldwide streaming music or anything
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  to that effect, he's from Puerto Rico, Latino, whatever you think about his
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  music, whatever you think about him, all I'm saying, guess what?
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  You have a business. You're doing content like myself.
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  You're doing, you know, independent thing. You're doing whatever it is.
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  It's your time to grab the board and be like, okay, it's that time to make it happen.
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  For me, I'm not one to, you know, he did his thing. You know,
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  I'm mature to say, well, he's an entertainment.
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  I can't use his message. I'm going to use the message of those elders that have
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  been there, such as Pedro Alvizo Campo, United States, Malcolm X.
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  There's so many people out there of some of these elders that we tend to forget
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  because sadly in the United States, you know, capitalist country,
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  even corporations co-op a movement I'm telling you.
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  And that I could understand for those people who were not too fond because he sold out.
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  And then there's Puerto Ricans that he's like, oh, who is he to talk about the
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  independence when I'm over here and then so on and I'm struggling and so on
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  and so forth. You know, it's like a domino effect.
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  All I'm saying is, what are you doing? What are you going to do now?
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  I don't want to, like I said, I'm not going to just go back and be like,
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  oh, the inspiration of our people was at Bizzou Campo in the halftime show.
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  I'm not going to do that. No.
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  I appreciate what he did. He did what he could best do in a limited spot, no matter what it is.
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  But guess what? Now it's our turn to shine. Now it's our turn to talk about
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  our history, the elders that fall. Now it's our turn.
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  And when I say that it's the turn because he mentioned a lot of countries and
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  primary Puerto Rico, think on your own and stop being dependent,
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  especially dependent of the United States of America.
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  Wherever the United States goes, Puerto Rico goes.
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  And I was in Puerto Rico a long time, my homeland.
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  I'm over here taking a picture of the mountain. There's a Walmart.
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  Walmart is owned by a corporate American company.
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  Where are we as people that we could say, you know what?
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  We need to do better. We can do better. Even something where people in the Bronx,
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  people in the Gattles, in the hood.
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  We depend on these things. And I'm saying to myself, what can we do to gravitate
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  and say, listen, listen.
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  Because people just was thinking about, oh, you know, it was political.
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  It was this and that and that. And I'm like, look, number one. He was number one.
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  It's like he's the number one artist, right? Michael Jackson appeared.
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  You know, Beyonce. Now, sadly, the Super Bowl, the halftime show,
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  the NFL halftime show, they get co-opted.
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  It's like a corporation taking it, like I said, taking a movement,
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  whether it's Black Lights Matter, whether it's, you know, ICE,
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  whatever it is, whatever movement.
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  And it's in the center stage and it becomes a little political or whatever,
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  but I'm like, that's United States in a nutshell.
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  And I once told people, because there are people,
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  in the independence movement and we have an artist before, Bad Bunny,
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  who was talking and setting light about Puerto Rico, but he was showing because,
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  ah, whatever, from Calle 13.
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  And people were like, oh, how can he be independent, But yet,
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  you know, talk crap about government, but yet reap the benefits of living here
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  and being an artist in the United States. I say it's this.
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  There's a lot of LBGT people who go out there and promote equality.
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  Hey, listen, by all means.
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  But then they wear certain brands, certain clothes. They work for certain companies
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  that have business in countries that are against them.
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  But then I say to myself, is this, if I had a chance to say,
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  you know what, I'm going to work for this company and I'm going to make,
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  you know, I'm just using an example.
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  I'm going to make a million dollars per year, a company that I might not agree
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  that they have business doing this versus a company, let's say, I'm using an example.
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  If they probe whatever it is that I'm fighting for and they're only going to
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  give me $200,000 a year doing the same thing, guess what I'm going to take?
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  I'm going to take the money. Why am I going to take the money?
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  Because with money, then you can have more to make spaces of the things that you're fighting for.
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  And this is what exactly I've been telling people in regards to the bad bunny.
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  Is that, okay, enough. I'm with you. And enough with the people that's against
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  it. Enough with the people that's pro.
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  What are we going to do? Now, there's situations where, again,
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  we go with the money situation.
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  You need money in order to promote something. Let's be straight up.
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  And I'm not saying that, listen, David, doesn't that mean that you're selling
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  to the devil? And that means you're selling your soul? No.
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  Selling your soul would be that you change your tune on whatever it is, right?
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  And that's where I want people to understand is that, hey, you're not going
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  to agree with a lot of things in this life, with companies, corporations.
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  You're not going to agree with that. But if it brings some benefits,
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  if it brings money to help others, by all means.
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  And that's what I try to explain to people hey listen you
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  have the right to do whatever it is now people
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  want to say well you know how can I say hey
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  listen that there's other Latinos or better artists or
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  whatever it's not that there's a better artist I'm pretty sure there's
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  a thousand better artists than Bad Bunny but guess
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  who's number one you understand what I'm saying what
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  now now that you you know in Puerto Ricans now that we
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  here we people are talking about Puerto rico what are we gonna do whatever whatever
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  you know you know especially those people in the in the oh yeah he's not latino
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  he doesn't represent no he's not he doesn't represent puerto ricas i'm like
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  shut the up and just what are you gonna do now not that the focus on you that means,
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  example if you're puerto rica living in puerto rica if you know that tourism
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  is gonna go up after the superbowl what are you gonna do i'm just saying what
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  kind of business you have What kind of thing that you want to do?
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  I remember years ago when I went to my island.
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  A gentleman, you know, from Georgia, he got off. I know Georgia had the conversation.
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  Imagine this. He stood in this hotel and he's asking one of the workers in Puerto
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  Rico, where can I eat good food?
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  The young brother's telling that gentleman, oh, Applebee's.
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  And I'm like, Jesus, you see what I'm talking about? This is the point,
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  what I'm trying to say here.
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  I stood there and I told the gentleman once he stopped talking,
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  I'm like, why is he sending to Applebee's? Don't you got an apple because you're in the United States?
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  Here's a local shop here. You see, this is exactly what I'm trying to tell the
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  Puerto Rican people, the Puerto Rican community.
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  If you're negative, turn something into something.
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  If you don't agree with it, that's fine. But let's turn something positive to positive.
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  If Puerto Ricans that are out there in Puerto Rico, you got a business.
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  If you're listening to this, small business independent.
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  Or if you anyone out there try to push people in
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  these service to go to places that's going to support the island go to your
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  local supermarket go to whatever the case don't go to no apple bees or chili
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  or anything like that what the hell is the apple bees in puerto rico right i'm
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  just saying sadly they can't get away with walmart but i'm just saying what avenues can we bring,
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  and the same applies here in this united states now that we have people talking
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  about puerto rico and whatever, and what are we going to learn?
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  And one thing, Pedro Albizu Campo, one thing, the Puerto Rican diaspora here
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  in the United States, we're going to unite everybody, Puerto Ricans,
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  all South American, Central American, Canadian, obviously, I see.
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  We're going to unite because, sadly, in this country, in this beautiful country.
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  The benefits of you being divided, and when it's your turn to do something,
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  you don't have the energy to fight your fight.
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  And the people that you fought along, It's not the same people that's going
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  to fight your fight. You fought their fight, but they're not here to fight your fight.
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  Oh, that, you know, Bad Bunny, he doesn't represent us. And I'm like,
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  blah, blah, blah. So then who represents you? I'm just saying. My point is this.
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  You're going to go in crazy.
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  What are we going to do? What's in your hands? What's the power in your hands?
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  What are we going to do going after or going forward?
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  Again, I want Puerto Ricans out there who are in the pro Bad Bunny situation.
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  I get it. We appreciate what the young brother did,
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  But again, like Brother Macamac said These are entertainers And we can't cling
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  on entertainers And we can't cling on politicians That want to be entertainers
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  If you know what I mean Got a couple of Puerto Rican politicians That want to be entertainers.
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  What is the power that we're going to do to educate people on our history, on our culture?
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  I often have told people when they be like, oh, I'm going to go to Europe.
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  With all due respect to my European brothers and sisters, I'll be there one day.
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  But I tell people, especially my people, when I say my people,
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  the marginalized groups, blacks, Latinos, whatever it is, I tell them,
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  you don't need to go to Europe.
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  If you're going to go on vacation, go to the Caribbean. We got to think.
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  Jamaica Dominican Republic Haiti I'm pretty sure we'll get You know there's
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  a couple of spots But hey listen Cuba,
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  The low-end seals The higher-end seals Barbados Puerto Rico obviously I'm just
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  saying You know get that sun But just going forward.
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  The spotlight is on us My Puerto Rican people And my Latinos And all these people
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  that feel marginalized The spotlight is on us What are we gonna do?
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  Please do something. I urge you to grab something, learn something, follow my podcast.
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  Let's make it happen. Do something.
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  Reap the benefits for not only yourself, but for those in our community.
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  Because at the end of the day, we only have each other.
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  And trust me, you don't need to wait another halftime show to be inspired.
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  You don't need to wait for another the music or let's say sports entertainer,
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  actor, actress, whatever it is.
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  You don't need that. There's always been heroes, both men and women who fought
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  that fight for us, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, Haitians,
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  Jamaican, the Caribbean, South American, Central American, all that good stuff.
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  There's those people who fought that fight. And if you want us to learn from
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  them, start talking about them instead of going out there, buddy,
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  Let's make it happen. I'm out of here. Peace.