boyslayr:

LATINXS/HISPANICS OF TUMBLR:

latino-diversity:

el-pajarito:

latinaavenger:

putonejetinaline:

i do not see nearly enough selfies and photographs of hispanic/latinx bloggers on my dash. i’ve also noticed that our culture tends to be twisted by cinco de mayo, which, in the usa, has become a drinking holiday. so, to remedy this issues, i’ve come up…

the girl who’s behind this post is white… [x][x] & being that she’s from florida it’s likely that she’s a white cuban. now as a white cuban myself i gotta ask. how the fuck do we lack representation…? were overrepresented in the american spanish speaking media & in the english speaking one as well. we’re also overrepresented in other sectors of society ie… politics. some of y’all need to stop acting like latinos all have the same history, struggles & experiences in america. stop being naive in thinking that race plays no part in those experiences..’cause the cuban american experience with the exception of the afro cuban experience has been shaped by white privelege. my whole reason for putting this out there is because i’m confused why a white girl is in need of representation? not only do we see people who look like us in most of the spanish media… but the same goes for the english speaking media. even if you don’t identify with white americans…it doesn’t change the reality that both of us are of european background and that people who look like us hold the most power & are most represented in most fractions of american society 

All of this!

I don’t know if the person is Cuban-American, but southern Florida is a Mecca for white Latin Americans either way, and that’s largely due to white Cubans and the community they formed.

Some insight on the issue at hand: most Cuban-Americans, at least the ones who descend from the first couple of waves of post-revolution immigrants, were elite and middle-class white exiles, who left Cuba largely to avoid their wealth being seized by the newly formed communist government. Many of these people have recent European ancestry, due to the fact that Cuba was the last country in Latin American to receive a massive influx of Spanish immigrants. Spaniards were still immigrating there until the 50′s. This is in part why a large percentage of the Cuban-American population is white.

Now, just like el-pajarito said the experience of Latin Americans in the United States greatly differs from ethnic group to ethnic group, naturally, but also from racial group to racial group. Black-Cubans obviously do not have the same prievelges as white-Cubans, but in the United States they’re a minority. I don’t understand why so many people ignore those differences for the sake of Pan-Latinism.

Ever heard of Operation Peter Pan?  When the United States government permitted Cuban parents to send their children to the U.S. 90% of these children were white:

With the rest being either Mulatx or Chinese-Cubans. Now, let’s compare this to the experience of Mexican and Central American migrant children, who are largely brown Mestizxs and Indigenous people, and who are being deported in hordes. Parents and children alike.

Or even before the Cuban Revolution. When Black Cubans in southern Florida experienced the full effects of the Jim Crow laws, were marginalized and segregated from white American and white Cuban neighbourhoods. While white Cubans for the most were viewed in the same light as other white immigrants, and not constrained to segregation laws. How that segregation continued among the white Cuban population after the end of Jim Crow, and how it affected the black Cuban-American population in terms of econimic disadvantage.

Or let’s look at the fact that, most Cuban-Americans are Republican. How the Republicans in Miami have such solid influence that the Cuban embargo lasted this long because of them, economically hindering Cubans living on the island who as a majority are largely mixed-race or black. How the immigration policies for Cubans are lenient thanks to those policies, but harsh on Haitian migrants who arrive in a similar manner.

Or how one of the main proponents of the racist stop-and-frisk policy that targeted poc, was Rafael Piñeiro, a white Cuban.

Or how Cuban-Americans make more money than other Latin Americans and even many European immigrant groups. How more of them also attended post-secondary education than the previously mentioned groups.

Lastly, as el-pajarito said. How white Cuban-Americans are already overrepresented in the United States media and positions of power, especially compared to Mexican-Americans and Puerto Rican-Americans, two groups which are predominately non-white.

Cuban-Americans:

 See, this is a significant reason why the whole latino-out thing is a terrible idea, not even taking into account how it co-opts Blackout Day. Many white Latinxs, feel they have a right to invade the spaces of black, brown, and Asian Latinxs. I understand that many of them face xenephobia in the United States, as do other immigrants, but that doesn’t change the fact that their race is white and they’re already represented universally due to Eurocentric beauty ideals. Pick up a magazine in any post-colonial American nation, and you’ll see a person who looks like you. Give non-white people a chance to shine for once!

What on earth does Cinco de Mayo have to do with most of Latin America anyways?