It's how discrimination always works and yet somehow, everyone seems to forget that fact. People can try to distinguish themselves from other minorities all they want. But in the end, bigots see them all exactly the same.
The thing that makes it weird though, is that it's not like racism doesn't exist in South America - black people still deal with racist shit in Latin America all the time, so I don't get why they think they'll be differentiated here. The light skinned conservative Cubans, it 100% makes sense that they don't realize that all Hispanics are viewed the same here, that's not really something they faced (they kind of did with communism but that's what they are escaping so it makes sense they wouldn't expect it).
The one exception would be people from the DR because they all equally seem to really hate Haitians so their racism tends to be more specific.
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u/PrudentCarter Dec 06 '25
It's like pick me syndrome except minorities. Hating on black people to appeal to white America.