Lost in translation

As I think on the subject of race in America I wonder why it was first created. We have accepted race as a normal part of life when in reality it only defines our acceptance of inferiority and the allowance of European supremacy in America. While watching the video in class my eyes were opened to the situation of the early Cuban and Mexican Americans and how their struggle was just a few of many in the plight of the minority class. Mexican and Cuban Americans came here to seek freedom and to attempt to re-establish themselves with the ultimate hope of taking the assumed experiences of their American lives back to their home country. America has a tainted history of promoting the American dream when no-one including American born Americans can truly attain such an unattainable thing. Mexican Americans have had such a hard time acquiring citizenship in current day that I thought this was something that only started in the past few decades and not that it had started so long ago. I believe that the most simple thing underlying racism is skin tone and that is what truly allows us to see a difference in others in comparison to ourselves. Cuba and the Cuban Revolution were pretty much erased form history in America. It took me 23 years to ever hear about this and I was extremely shocked to hear that there was such a strong Cuban influence in early America. Marte, a Cuban immigrant relocated to the states,  gained insight in American culture but quickly lost faith in America and all he thought it promised. At the height of the Civil Rights Movement Marte’ saw the racial tensions between white in blacks in America and knew that if that blacks who were born here were seen as lesser than then Cubans would definitely have a hard time trying to gain equality and citizenship in the states. He started a political movement by sending money and allying with Cuban cigar workers in order to start a movement in Cuba that he hoped would give Cuba more power. Also he understood that at the rate that America was gaining power that the Cubans had to act fast in their ascension to power or they would be swept under the rug. There was just so much I learned in viewing this video that I do not even know where to stop. All in all America has systematically gained power by making darker skin feared and disregarded.