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As a Puerto Rican I find this annoying. I've spent the last few years Learning my own history and culture as part of trying to find who I am and the more I learn the more I become aware of the colonial nature of Puerto Rico. And Because of this I find it Infuriating that you Lump PR & DC together as if they are one in the same. DC Is a Civil Right Issue and Of course should be a state. Puerto Rico Is a 500 year Old Colonial Issue you inherited from Spain in which people have been killed, jailed and persecuted for having 'The Incorrect status position" By the United States. I sit here saying this knowing that I may not be alive today had my grandmother not left as a teen and avoided la operación Or my grandparents growing up being unable to speak Spanish in class bec you banned it. Or how my grandfather lived through the gag law where he couldn't own his own flag and had revolts break out in his own town. Puerto Rico deserves a genuine process of self determination in accordance with International law and not that local non-binding crap that even a 2013 senate committee hearing admitted was problematic which you guys pull up from Wikipedia like it somehow makes you an expert on Puerto Rican politics. I also find a lot of the so called support selfish bec so many responses about PR statehood end with 2 dem seats as if that's all we are and not a Latin American Nation with a Unique history and Culture.