Puerto Rico- moving towards statehood?

[LesterMaddox]

If it'll encourage them to stay on their island, I'd be all for it, but since I don't think it would, we ought to force independence on them.  It's not like they'll be able to just walk across the border like the Mexicans do.

[LesterMaddox]

Not racism or politics but culture. Legally, Puerto Ricans may be Americans, but not culturally.  Mexicans are neither.  When you take a look at all the palces in the world that have ethnic strife the last thing in the world the US needs is to become another multi-ethnic powder keg waiting to explode.  We need to slow down immigration to rate at which immigrants can be assimilated.  Immigration, especially Hispanic immigration, is too high right now for assimilation to keep up with the influx.  It's also culture and not skin tone that's at the root of our race problems.  For over three centuries black and white have been two seperate cultures in America, and there is no sign of them melting into a single culture, although each keeps borrowing from the other.

[LesterMaddox]

Wow.  Lester's post is so blatantly racist, it doesn't deserve an intelligent resopnse.

Meaning that you couldn't come up with an intelligent response, so you decided to insult the messenger instead.

If it's racist to acknowledge the self-evident fact that black and white are two cultures living side by side in America, so be it.  If you fail to see that fact, go visit a church this morning and tell me how integrated it is (or more likely isn't).  Having more than one cultural group in the same area is an invitation to disaster.  Doesn't mean that the invitation will be accepted, as diaster is a busy fellow, with far more invitations than he can possibly accept.

[LesterMaddox]

Not all territories should become states, and the person who said that should be hung.

Don't need to be that drastic.  Just deport them to Bosnia, Cote d'Ivoire, Darfur, Kashmir, Rwanda, or the like, so they can see for themselves that different cultures can always find a way to live together in harmony.