https://www.okwassup.com/elian-gonzalez-then-and-now/ News, Entertainment, Lifestyle and more! Wed, 27 May 2015 07:58:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.okwassup.com/elian-gonzalez-then-and-now/#comment-770 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:39:15 +0000 http://okwassup.com/2010/04/08/elian-gonzalez-then-and-now/#comment-770 Co-sgn with Anon. But I'd also like to add:Two things always struck me about the “Little Elian Gonzalez Saga in America.”First: The ANGLO-Cuban community in Florida (including his “extended family”) _aided shamelessly by the American MEDIA_did their damndest to present little Elian as “a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Cubans to flee the oppression of Fidel Castro's communist regime.”But the truth is: What the ANGLO-Cuban community in Florida (AND GOP politicians in their pockets) put THAT CHILD and his father through was “a sin and a shame before God”! That poor child was USED in the most cynical of ways to serve the ANGLO-Cuban community’s OWN SELF-serving agenda. Cuban families who enjoyed wealth and “Privilege” BEFORE Castro took over had beat a HASTY retreat for Florida shores at his rise to power. But many of them NEVER stopped dreaming of getting “their” country_AND WEALTH_back. The unfortunate plight of little Elian was twisted into a Made-for-TV script to garner sympathy AND support from the American viewing public for “all oppressed Cubans”_SMH. For the GOP it was pure political opportunism. End of story. Two: Had little Elian been a BLACK-Cuban, he would have enjoyed NO SUCH outpouring of “support” from the Florida Cuban “Community” _OR GOP politicians. In fact, he would have been sent BACK to his father immediately.Of THAT I am sure!

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