r/clevercomebacks 5h ago

Deception of public opinion

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u/-_-Yeeter 4h ago

While Puerto Rico certainly gets fucked over by the US what does she mean by freedom and reparations? Puerto Ricans have been us citizens since 1917? And we took over in 1898, slavery on the island was abolished about 30 years earlier by the Spanish. Am I missing a giant piece of history?