'What Does It Mean to Be a Good Cuban American?'

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"What does it mean to be a good Cuban American? If you’d have asked me that question six years ago my answer would have been the standardized one, because it was an answer that had been etched into my mind since I was young."

"To be a good Cuban-American I had to: Vehemently hate the Cuban government and revolution; Oppose anything that remotely resembles communism or socialism; and Thoroughly support the Embargo on Cuba."

"Those were the three basic pillars for being a good Cuban-American, and they were not optional. They still aren’t. At least, that’s what the loud Cuban-American voices in Miami and South Florida want you and me to believe."

"Over the last five years or so, I have done a lot of unlearning, and while I still feel very strongly about the Cuban government and their crimes toward the Cuban people who oppose them, I do not believe the issue of Cuba is as black and white as the loud voices in South Florida want you and me to believe. The one thing, however, that is very black and white is that the embargo does nothing but hurt the people of Cuba. The embargo does nothing else but cut off an already limited supply of items, medicines, and tools that the Cuban people need to survive."

Continued at link:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/being-good-cuban-american

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1. I've often wondered what the purpose of the embargo was since it seemed to target the people of Cuba.

Did we hope they would become so miserable and desperate that they would rise up and rebel? It's never made sense.

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2. That's been the stated goal for decades: cause as much pain as possible hoping Cubans overthrow the regime.

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3. You'd think after a while they'd notice that it wasn't working.

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4. 64 years to be exact.

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5. You'd think someone would have begun rethinking their plan. 64 years seems a bit stubborn and short sighted.

Idiots!