Response to False Claims against Florida Cubans
Feb 5, 2022 11:59:37 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Feb 5, 2022 11:59:37 GMT -5
Response to False Claims against Florida Cubans
There was a recent claim on the YouTube discussion venue, that the reason for Cuban success in Florida was due to there benefiting from free education under communism. Well, as the historical records clearly show, that claim is totally false. True, statistics reveal that Cubans indeed have been the most successful of all the Latino groups that have immigrated to the USA. However, the person making that claim is obviously abysmally ignorant of recent Cuban history. Why? Simple, because those successful Cubans, mostly of European descent, were not the product of Castro's communist regime. Instead, they were the first wave of wealthy very educated upper class Cubans that had decided to flee Castro's communist Cuba as soon as Castro took control. So contrary to popular uniformed opinion, they had not benefited from any communist free education that guaranteed or at the least would have made financial success in the USA much easier..
Interestingly, the second wave of Cubans, called Marielitas, based on the Cuban port of departure from Cuba to the USA, were of low income lowered classed and far less educated. In fact, many had criminal records. The film Scarface is based on them that second wave of Cubans whom Castro ha maliciously laced with the dregs of Cuban society.
About Cuban discrimination? Well, as a Puerto Rican, I have suffered far more discrimination from African Americans all over the USA, Mexican Americans in Chicago, and Dominican Americans in New York than I have ever suffered at the hands of Florida Cubans. In fact, I have found that Cuban Americans in general are very keen in always reminding Puerto Ricans that they consider Puerto Rico and Cuba as sister islands, that cultural and historically have always shared the same heart. Also, I resided among that first wave of Cubans for three years and they never attacked me physically. The ones who did attack me physically were the African Americans who considered me fair game to vent their very intense very violently inclined anti Cuban hatred against me simply because I am Latino. Unfortunately, for me at tht horrifying moment, whether I was a Puerto Rican or not didn't mean shit.
Interestingly, the second wave of Cubans, called Marielitas, based on the Cuban port of departure from Cuba to the USA, were of low income lowered classed and far less educated. In fact, many had criminal records. The film Scarface is based on them that second wave of Cubans whom Castro ha maliciously laced with the dregs of Cuban society.
About Cuban discrimination? Well, as a Puerto Rican, I have suffered far more discrimination from African Americans all over the USA, Mexican Americans in Chicago, and Dominican Americans in New York than I have ever suffered at the hands of Florida Cubans. In fact, I have found that Cuban Americans in general are very keen in always reminding Puerto Ricans that they consider Puerto Rico and Cuba as sister islands, that cultural and historically have always shared the same heart. Also, I resided among that first wave of Cubans for three years and they never attacked me physically. The ones who did attack me physically were the African Americans who considered me fair game to vent their very intense very violently inclined anti Cuban hatred against me simply because I am Latino. Unfortunately, for me at tht horrifying moment, whether I was a Puerto Rican or not didn't mean shit.