My first time traveling to the homeland was in August 2020 during the Black Lives Matter uprising. I was shocked to find that even two years after the Hurricane, the island was still recovering, thanks to the natives that nurture it. Just a year after the island had gotten together to overthrow their governor Ricardo Rosselló, and at the finale of the Trump Administration, the island's proclamation for abolition had not subsided in the least. Murals decorated the city with Black and White Puerto Rican Flags, paired with names of Trans and Black Puerto Ricans murdered written in chalk. These memorials were met with dozens of candles, flowers, and an overwhelming sense of mourning. I thought about how similar our grief was from the states to the island, and what that meant to the overall feeling of Puerto Ricans worldwide.
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