If ever there was an example of why immigrants should listen to Black Americans, the recent reports of record deportation of Cuban Americans is it. Black Americans know white America as does no other... 👀
Latino communities have been duped into believing themselves to have a status of whiteness that is not real or ascribed to them for any benefit of their convenience. They were labeled "white" as part of a numbers game intended to bolster the numerical illusion of a white majority. They are one of many clearly non-white appearing groups that have been lumped into this category merely for the sake of census.
They have been used as a pawn to create a wedge between themselves and Black Americans. They have been used to help keep a foot on Black America's neck. Sadly, as with many other immigrants of color, many were all too willing participants in the game of Black oppression and truly believe(d) the hype that, in America, they are considered white simply because America has applied such prefix to their ethnic identity (i.e. white Cuban, white Puerto Rican, model Asian). MENA (Middle Eastern North Africans) certainly don't fit the visual racial construct of white, yet, the census says they are so, despite loud cries of objection from within the community.
Many an immigrant suffers from the illusion of inclusion. Having white ascribed as a prefix to their identity, feeds the insatiable need many have for white affirmation or white acceptance. Any Black American could have, and probably did, tell them no matter their "milky" complexion, or straightness of their hair, white Americans don't see them as white and that a "wake up" call was inevitably in their future. Can you hear us now?
Latino immigrants and others, must come to understand that their being labeled as "white" has nothing to do with their truth but rather is for the convenience of others striving to maintain a numerical majority status thereby leading to this FAFO moment for the Cuban community, the inevitable wake up call. Still, some remain woefully asleep. Many others, still, are far too eager to throw even their own under the bus in which they believe themselves passengers.
Meanwhile, Black Americans are passing the popcorn as the drama unfolds...
~ Miss Higgi Says
To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/politics/cubans-florida-deportations-trump.html?smid=wa-share
Cubans failed to read the very important clauses in their visas: being granted asylum because you are under the threat of death in your homeland means you can never return to that place. The deported folks went back to Cuba for vacations and came back to the states without any trouble in Cuba. That means it's safe for them to permanently return to Cuba at this time.
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