[jdm61]

I grew up in Miami and one of my fraternity brothers is now a lawyer/mouthpiece for the Mas Canosa's of the world. i used to agree with the Miami Cubans, but after being away for a while and actually going to Cuba, I have come to the conclusion that they are nuts. Their primary practical reason for keeping the embargo going is that when it ends, ANYONE in the US with the resources will be welcomed to come and partner up with the Cuban government and whatever entities it designates to do business in Cuba......EXCEPT for the Miami exiles. My friend and his people actually believe that they can come back on reclaim their land because "nobody owns it now" (his words to me 20 years ago) What i came to realize when I visited there is that nobody "owns" land because it is a Marxist state, but people are sure as hell living on that property and they have NO interest in going back to being peasants on some Miami Cuban exile's plantation. And i won't EVEN get into the whole virulent racism issue, which allegedly no longer exists in Cuba, but you could have fooled me...lol From living in Miami, I thought that Cuba was a predominately white country until the Marielitos showed up in 1980, and even then, I had no idea how few whites there were left down there. (20% of the population....even if you could the 500,000 that fled, it was never more than 25-30%.