US Strangled Puerto Rico’s Growth With Racism – FFK
August 9, 2020
4:37 am
Pedro Albizu Campos was a Puerto Rican attorney and politician, and the leading figure in the Puerto Rican independence movement.Β Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode,Β took to his verified Facebook pageΒ to explain how the United States manipulated and frustrated his efforts for an independent Puerto Rico on racist grounds.
In his words:
Let me tell you a story about racism. The first actual Afro-Latino valedictorian of Harvard Law School, Pedro Albizu Campos graduated in 1921.
He graduated while simultaneously studying Literature, philosophy, Chemical Engineering, and Military Science. He was fluent in six modern and two classical languages: …
