Mark-Viverito quotes Mia Motley on colonialism
Mark-Viverito quotes Barbados Prime Minister Mia Motley on the underdevelopment of Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America as a child of the colonial experiment. She says Puerto Rico has not yet freed itself from that experiment.
I would like to start by sharing a quote.
We have to understand that the underdevelopment of Africa, of the Caribbean, of Latin America, in many instances, is a child.
of the colonial experiment, and the colonial experiment extracted wealth.
And in some of these countries, the extractive attitudes still remain, such that we haven't been able to build the kind of domestic enterprises and the domestic foundations that's necessary to sustain our people.
This quote from Barbados Prime Minister Mia Motley speaks to Puerto Rico's reality today.
We have not yet freed ourselves from that colonial experiment, but it is a moral imperative that we do so, that it is Puerto Rico who has the ability to build that domestic foundation necessary to sustain our people.
The resolutions in discussion today speak to a scourge that must be uprooted, the continued economic and political subjugation of Puerto Rico and its people.