re: #142 HappyWarrior

That’s something I understand completely and I hope I don’t mean disrespect but they’re not the only ones. Plenty of Chinese-Americans, Vietnamese-Americans, etc lost a lot when communist regimes took over there and took a lot of wealthy and property. I understand the emotions. i also have long resented the exile community creating a narrative that only they suffered. A friend of my cousin is Romanian and his family lost a lot of their property during that era too and yet we still did business with the Romanians even during the Cold War since Nicolae Ceaușescu was Anti-Soviet.

I don’t take it as disrespect. Cuban-Americans have been much more politically active, so their voices are the ones that get heard the most. I think part of it is because of Cuba’s proximity. There was, for decades, the hope that Castro would fail and that they’d be able to return home. Most who would consider Cuba home have died or are close to death. The emotion was passed on to their children. But their grandchildren are less passionate, or at least see a different way because that fight is not our fight.