Just this past November we saw the case of the young soccer star, Jan Carlos Mateo Delgado who was verbally attacked with racist remarks from a fan at a match with the University of Puerto Rico (Mayagüez). The game was neither suspended nor was said fan removed from the stadium.
We have the controversial situation in Santurce’s Museum of Art of Puerto Rico where they substituted the name of the Cecilia Orta Allende Gallery Hall to that of the only daughter of an affluent couple — donors of the renowned museum. Known as La Pintora del Pueblo (The Painter of a People), Cecilia Orta Allende, an Afro-Puerto Rican woman was not only an outstanding plastic artist but also an educator and advocate of our youth, founder of the Academy of Plastic Arts of the Future Painters of Puerto Rico.