Reflection 18

I myself was wondering, can you really make a political matter, a racist matter? If you look at it from the surface you can see it just as it is, a political matter. The Haitians didn’t have the same privileges as the Cubans because they weren’t govern the same way. The Cubans were run by communist, were as the Haitians were run by a democratic government. It was plan and simple, if the Cubans ever got sent back to Cuba knowing they tried to escape, they would have been sent back and would have been taken to jail, or even worse, politically persecuted. Were as the Haitians would of just been sent back to the poverty which the had originally came from. Now when they talk about racism, they have a part of a case. The United States is discriminating towards the Haitians because they are denying them the privilege to stay in America. Then it goes into a political matter because the Cubans have something to offer to the United States, in the 1960’s Cubans brought their own wealth, and they were highly educated. We didn’t mind the wet foot dry foot rule, because it was beneficial for us. If Cuba didn’t want their educated citizens, then we would gladly take them, and use them for our benefits. Where the Cubans didn’t mind because they were away from their communist country, and were able to make a living, because truth be told, most of the Cubans were smarter than the average American citizen. Now when it comes to the Haitians they were the poorest country in the hemisphere, they didn’t have enough money to keep their citizens alive, never mind give them a decent education. The Haitians had nothing to offer America, they had labor skills, and the skills to stay alive, though they were not educated, and they had no money. Where the Cubans could work there way up with the kind of skills they brought to America, the Haitians weren’t as privilege to have those skills; instead they had other kind of skills that would still leave the Haitians at the bottom. This case is a racial matter, but in a way the Americans tried to help the Haitians they had a dictator ship once, and America took him out. We can’t help a country by constantly bringing in people, because it doesn’t really help their country, it just helps the citizens that leave and never come back. Though for the ones still there it’s all about what happens in the country instead of the ones who makes it out. I believe that this is more of a political matter than a racist one, sure there are some racist points, but there are more details then meet the eye.