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When you're Afro-Latina from Miami, you are deeply familiar with the racism, white supremacy, classism, anti-Blackness, individualism and disdain of socialism (while benefiting from it) that emboldens Miami Cubans to act a fool like this. the selfishness and lack of solidarity + https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1323861306215157760
with other immigrants and refugees is hard to watch. yet, Cubans make up 9 of 10 people in Miami receiving welfare set aside for refugees. While other immigrants are barred from collecting aid for their first five years and undocumented folks are not eligible at all. Where many +
folks go wrong though, is assuming that Cubans are "voting against their own interests." No. white Cubans' (and white Latinidad) interests are perfectly aligned with with the current (but not for long) administration: white supremacy, individual wealth. this is not a surprise +
to the Black Latinas who have been constantly trying to remind you that whiteness and white supremacy does not end at the US border and that it is baked into centuries of European enslavement, attempted genocide and immigration policies favoring white people across Latin America.
No explanation, no analysis of the Cuban American (in Miami specifically) vote is complete without a serious reckoning with how racism and legacies of slavery and in turn, white wealth in Cuba got us here.
