Racism is to blame for Puerto Rico’s dire fiscal situation, Mayor de Blasio charged Saturday.
“The backs of the United States government turned on them, while a health-care crisis grows, a humanitarian crisis grows, the Zika crisis grows,” he said in a speech at the National Action Network in Harlem.
“By the way, brothers and sisters, do you think by any chance it could be because they’re people of color?”
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