"Spare me your exile story if you're only going to weaponize it while denying someone else the same chance your family had. That's not patriotism. That's cowardice in a guayabera."
"I see it, too, in the way many Democrats have turned their backs on the LGBTQ+ community. As long as the monster isn't coming for them, they feel safe."
The author, a child of Cuban immigrants, reflects on the pervasive narratives shared among Miami's Cuban community about their escape from oppression. However, they express concern over a noticeable disconnection among Cuban Americans who forget their struggles and show indifference to contemporary immigrants facing violence and poverty. The piece critiques a growing divide in understanding and empathy within the community, linking it to broader issues of discrimination, including towards the LGBTQ+ community, and calls out hypocrisy in supporting anti-immigrant policies while ignoring the parallels of their own history.
Read at Advocate.com
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