As I was thinking about it and started talking to my friend about the struggle that the Puerto Ricans went through in New York (most of which he did not know about) I was thinking of what went wrong. Why did the black movement get so much power and still in the textbooks while Mexican-Americans or Puerto Ricans rarely, if ever appear? One problem they had was that there was not a presence all over the US, it was mainly in Chicago and New York. The other fault they had was they did not have a martyr. I know it sounds strange, but every strong movement has someone that sacrificed their life for the cause or was a casualty to show the irresponsibility of the other side. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Malcom X, Gandhi, Joan of Arc, and many more.
The idea of using a person as a symbol of your struggle seems terrible, but it works and could have worked for the Puerto Ricans when they were at their peak.
An interesting side note on the Puerto Ricans is that Hilary Clinton will be campaigning through Puerto Rico...
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-runoverdarder0413.artapr13,0,6878200.story
I don't think this is a big move of power for the Puerto Ricans, but it shows that when a candidate gets desperate that is when they are willing to go to them (which is a sad state of affairs).
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