A crowd of angry Puerto Ricans gathered in front of ABC’s corporate offices in New York to demand an apology for a quip on a primetime comedy that suggested all Puerto Ricans are drug dealers.
“We want respect now!” at least 100 people shouted indignantly during the second protest at the network’s headquarters over the line uttered during the Jan. 3 debut episode of the sit-com “Work It.”
In one scene, a character portrayed by Puerto Rican actor Amaury Nolasco says: “I’m Puerto Rican… I’d be great at selling drugs.”
“That wasn’t a joke, that was an insult and we want an apology,” activist Julio Pabon, one of the organizers of the protest called Thursday by Boricuas for a Positive Image, told Efe.
