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again, i’m not claiming castro is perfect, i don’t believe in idols or heros, but truly this villainization of cuba and cuba’s struggle toward a future free from the clutches of exploitative imperial social and economic control, has got to be investigated, esp by cuban americans
this propaganda made me so ashamed of being cuban,,, when we are truly a part of such a historic, anti-imperial nation!!! we are the fucking rose that grew from the concrete...w missiles pointed a the u.s. to rub salt on the wound :*
no nation is perfect or innocent, but cuba’s grappling and reckoning with trying to imagine a future free from colonial systems in the face of intense sanctions as a small island is worth fostering and reconsidering. move past anticommie fear mongering, i am begging
i get you, i too have family, in fact all of my family, in financially desolate times. but then i realized that the boogeyman wasn’t just “ahh commie castro govt!!” but the product of intentional and violent social and economic isolation from the greater neoliberal order
as well as other shit, cuba is a former colony, who was founded on colonial ideals. shaking off that legacy and those violences is not a feat we can see over night and should investigate ie castro’s antiBlackness in who he let be ranking members of his party (white cubans)
but again, please, make room for nuance. cuban americans, the education ur receiving about cuba in america, one of cuba’s former colonizers, should and does require historical research and revisiting. ur anecdotal and personal biased experiences do not replace historical fact
and no, all of your, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED! CUBANS SHUN YOU!, do not affect me, my very cuban grandmother with a framed picture of fidel and a polaroid of castros on her nightstand, is very proud of me, and cuba. u don’t speak for me or my connection to mi patria, BAIIII
my gdma’s sister was lowkey the person who radicalized me, bcus the rest of my expat fam shuns her for being a commie, and all the propaganda in my head i thought i would meet her and she’d be suffering
and then i meet her in her nice house, open the door soon as u walk in huge portrait of fidel greeting you, grandmas sister going off abt how much she loves her daily yoga and how she stays young by lightly puffing the cigs from the 3 packs she smokes a day at 76
i met her and i was like hold up,,, here i am being told this is a horrible regime. but i have this woman who dead ass lived thru pre and post revolution, living her best fucking life, retired, protected, w better quality of life + community than old ppl in the us thats for sure
my grandmother is not some high ranking member of the party or whatever, she is a regular ass woman, living her best life in cuba, only news she spoke on ab the us was bernie sanders LOL
and like, as i grew up and was allowed (lol caribbean family dynamic) to take part in more political conversation w elders, i realized the nuance conversations around communism and the government had ON THE ISLAND v IN THE US, where everything cuba did was just WRONG
my family on the island is not all like my grandmas sister, they don’t all love the government, and they have their own interpretations of how the revolution evolved and survived, but none of them ever matched the fervor of hatred expats in miami spewed
