[Magdalen] 50 - 50

[Jay Weigel]

Have you been able to see the ones who had to stay, who are REALLY dark? As
in black? Not many of those made it over here in either wave.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> From: Jay Weigel
>
>  good look at the ones who left for Florida vs. the ones who stayed (or
>> couldn't leave) you'll see a notable difference.
>>
>
> Oh? I never noticed any such thing at Ft Indiantown Gap, with thousands of
> Cubans from the Mariel boatlift. I would say it was about 50-50 in fact.
> And in general there was no conflict or even separation of races as is
> common in the U.S. I wrote about the lack of overt racism in a newspaper
> article at the time.
>
> Of course, that's post revolution. The ones that came in the early 60s
> were mostly people with money or connections. Lots of those folk in Miami
> have their Cuban property deed stuck in a Safety Deposit box, ready to
> reclaim their property the minute the Castros are gone. Of course, the
> people who’ve been living in those houses all these years and suffering the
> deprivation of the economy aren't going to willy-nilly move out when that
> happens. It's going to be a huge nasty conflict with some huge racial
> overtones  when the Castros are gone, you can be sure.
>
> Albert's brother is a physician in Havana -- and we've been emailing each
> other for about 10 years -- ever since he got his first laptop. So I hear
> lots of interesting things about what's going on there. Always interesting.
> We can also exchange photos, which is even more interesting as Horaldo has
> a digital camera. At some point next year, if the stars align and my health
> holds out, we're planning to spend a week or two there.
>
> We also have friends from Cuba who go back and forth to visit family and
> friends twice a year or so.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
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