• Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    I can hear it in his voice “anti Italian discrimination!”

    I kinda want that piece of shit corrupt senator (but which one! Laugh track ) Bob Mendez to speak more about his alleged Cuban-American discrimination so it can also become a meme. But Americans are legitimately stupid enough to probably not see that a white guy like ol’ Bob complaining about discrimination is the same as Sil complaining about it after the year like… 1930 lmao. I mean when was the last time Italians were seriously treated as not-white by the Anglos (in America). The Spanish and their descendants in Cuba (talking about the white ones like Bob, not darker skinned Afro Cubans and indigenous) were probably brought into the “whites club” before the Italians, but I’m too lazy to google it honestly. Fuck Bob though. Dude literally lied about the only thing white Cubans might have a grievance against. That being Castro taking their family’s (stolen) land and (stolen) wealth and bringing rights to workers which were literally slaves not long before and essentially still were slaves when Castro came. But Bob can’t even say “but he took my family’s slaves!” Because his family left before Castro came in. Lying sack of shit. Dragging a dead hero’s name through the same mud for 60 years after Bob’s dumb ass got caught doing the most obvious crimes in history. So obvious even the FBI was forced to indict a US senator.

    • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      The Spanish and their descendants in Cuba (talking about the white ones like Bob, not darker skinned Afro Cubans and indigenous) were probably brought into the “whites club” before the Italians

      i think that’s got to do with them being rich, cuban emigres and the rancheros of northern mexico after guadalupe hidalgo had very little trouble adjusting to yankee society, but the discriminated-against whites all came in waves of overwhelmingly poor migrants from europe. if a couple million dirt-poor spanish peasants had ever shown up in boston it’d be a different story, but most spanish immigration obviously went to latin america instead