“Trying to attribute a pejorative intention to myself by expressions taken from an audio from several years ago is absurd.”
This is how the pre-candidate to the government reacted by the New Progressive Party (PNP) Pedro Pierluisi about a video that circulates through social networks in which he appears referring to some former co-workers at a restaurant in New Orleans as “prietitos”.
“I have washed dishes, without gloves, with some little skin that I did not even understand English”, maintains the former resident commissioner in the images.
Before that, Pierluisi said in written statements sent to The new day that his words came “in the context of me being in a place working with pride as a dishwasher and cook to pay for my studies, when I did not speak English well and where we were all minorities”.
Earlier in a radio interview (WKAQ – 580 AM), the also former PNP president indicated that he did not know the origin of the video.
“That seems like a public forum and I should have made that expression many years ago because I did not do it recently, so I do not know where it went or where it went, but I reiterate, there is nothing negative in that expression, I am saying the true, “he defended.
“My trajectory against discrimination and equality is clear, and I will not deviate from continuing to carry my message of giving Puerto Rico a government of excellence”, he added in the statements to this medium.
He also contested that the images have been published, since, according to him, there is an intention to “inject hatred into public discussion.”
“What our society needs is peace and sensitivity and that is what I will always focus on”he stressed.
In the radio interview, he added that he would repeat his expressions “as many times as I have to repeat it” because he is proud of his origins.
“I am proud of all the jobs I’ve had throughout my life, including very humble jobs like that, because the important thing is that you sweat what you have,” he said.
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