Reply #99: It's getting better down here [View All]

[RagingInMiami]

I was born and raised here, but left more than ten years ago to travel the world, and I returned right before the election.

The Cubans are losing their power because Miami is becoming much more diverse with other latin americans who are moving here everyday.

I don't know when you left Miami, but I think the Miami Cubans started becoming less arrogant after the Elian Gonzalez fiasco. That was when they realized that not everybody sees the world through their eyes. It came as a shock to them.

Before the election, I volunteered for the Kerry campaign office, and it was right in front of Versaille in Little Havana, if you're familiar with that area. A lot of Cubans who had never voted democrat in their life were coming into the office and asking for kerry stickers.

There are still plenty of Cubans who love bush and drive around with that goddamn sticker on their cars and it does piss me off. Especially because it was the democrats who allowed them into this country in the first place to start a new life (kennedy, johnson and then carter).


As far as the word "latin" goes, that's just an english translantion of how all latin americans refer to themselves. In Spanish, we call ourselves Latinos, no matter what Latin American country you come from.

Hispanic is a word coined by Anglos. There is no Spanish translation. I didn't realize I was Hispanic until I moved to Arizona when an ex-gf told me "over here, you're hispanic".

Chicano means Mexican-American. Nobody is really certain of the origin of that word.

Anyway, here is a photo I took before the election of your typical right-wing cuban republican.