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...black or white-black "mod squad" patrols in the ghettoas in New York and Detroit. But New York's Eldridge Waith was chastised by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association for allowing himself to be frisked when he entered a church held by the Puerto Rican Young Lords, though by doing so Waith managed to help defuse a potentially dangerous situation. "We are not saying we are going to work with them," Waith notes, "but there's no doubt that in terms of the community there are areas where our goals are the same...
...Puerto Rican flag...
Hundreds of the single-starred Puerto Rican flags-suggestively like the Cuban flag with its colors reversed-waved from poles or decorated clothing. Berets were of nearly as many colors as there were shades of people present. Hardly a moment was silent between chants-almost exclusively in Spanish-rejecting the draft for Puerto Rican men, supporting "anti-imperialist" revolutions, or simply proclaiming "Viva Puerto Rico libre." The chants were often accompanied by raised fists; but the fists occasionally turned to fingers when the march happened by a United States flag...
...juxtaposition of U. S. and Puerto Rican flags is painfully symbolic to many Puerto Ricans. A song in Spanish, started by someone toward the end of the march and joined by almost everyone nearby, translates...
...need to have and govern one's own country may seem a petty consideration to people whose country became independent two hundred years ago. But the Puerto Rican people did not discover and settle the United States, and none of them fought to establish this nation. Their ties to the United States are recent and involuntary, and the slogans they chant reflect a closer kinship with the poorer nations that have broken away than with the richer ones that boast success and power. And so last Friday they marched, militantly but without guns; not disguised at night to throw...