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August 16, 2004
It serves you right, America!
ESPN.com - OLY/SUMMER04/BASKETBALL - Puerto Rico stuns Team USA with decisive win
Greetings from Athens! While the talk here is mostly of the magnificent showing so far of the powerhouse French women's fencers, who took two medals yesterday, I have been asked to comment on the complete and utter humiliation of the United States Men's Basketball Team -- and by implication, all 280 million Americans -- by oppressed colonial outpost Puerto Rico.
To me, this result is an indicator -- nay, a symbol! -- of the utter failure of United States colonial policy. By neither fully embracing Puerto Rico, and making it an integral part of the United States, nor fully oppressing it and making it too downtrodden to compete, the USA has doomed itself. Do you think France would allow itself to be humiliated by Tahiti?
Posted by Mac Thomason at August 16, 2004 09:03 AM
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