What will Miami-Dade be like in 10 - 20 years? (job market, eat)

[Leovigildo]

And yes as a Cuban -American I know Cubans go off the deep end when talking about their heritage. They are everything else on the map except black as if black is some GOD-awful curse...

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Well, Cubans are Southern, just older.
200 years older.
Yes, "cuarterones" abound in every Slave society.

[Loggerhead Shrike]

Yes Scarlet O'Hara, Cubans are 200 year old southerners.

[Leovigildo]

More, 500 hundred years.
And yes, there were here before Boludos.

[Wild Style]

Originally Posted by Leovigildo

You're some sort of Latin American, right?
I understand you, your Cuban boss treats you like dirt.
Yes, they built Miami, and they are the reason you're here.

This is not 100% accurate. Jews built south beach (the main reason people come to Miami) and Aventura. The Merricks, Flagler family and Mary Brickell (all of which are non Cubans) built up Miami in the early day and set the stage for what Miami is today. There are other non Cubans who built the foundations of Miami but their names escape me right now. Take a trip to the South Florida museum of history; it does a great job of chronicling Miami’s history. Only segment they left out is the Christian Arab role in Miami's history.

[Loggerhead Shrike]

500 years? The Siboneys were also in Florida? Interesting. You are right then Che, way before the Boludos.

[tallrick]

WHy do people brag about those who "built" Miami? That would be like bragging about building Three Mile Island- starts off well and then melts down!

[Leovigildo]

No, Che was one of your people.
He was related to Cantinflas and your orto.

[Leovigildo]

Historical Museum of Florida


The Tequesta, along with the Calusa, Mayaimi, Jeaga, Ais, and other neighboring tribes, obtained new goods, such as metal wares and tools, from the Spanish. They also succumbed to European diseases for which they had no immunity. Diseases, warfare, and cultural disruption decimated the Indian population. In 1770 Bernard Romans, an English surveyor, came upon the ruins of the 1743 mission on the north bank of the river. He later wrote about the last of the southern Florida tribes: “in 1763 the remnant of these people consisting of about eighty families, left this last possession of their native lands and went to Havannah.”

Well, they are back.

[Rosemary123]

Who cares who came here first, we are ruled by the United States of America and not by the Hispanic, Red Indian or whatever. As far as I am concerned, Miami has changed for the worse. The majority of jobs are given to those who travel in illegally, for those who happily accept pay lower than minimum wage, whereas, a citizen of this country has been forced to learn and speak a new language, whether it is spanish or french or be forcibly rejected out of the working environment and finally, what up with this self righteous mentality, as if to say, your on my turf now and you have to comply with my rules and regulations or face ostracism. The last time I checked I was living in the United States of America and it is about we the people and not me and my people alone. Help Obama and clean up this sensitive racism and discrimination in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. That's all.

[cuba libre]

Originally Posted by Rosemary123

Who cares who came here first, we are ruled by the United States of America and not by the Hispanic, Red Indian or whatever. As far as I am concerned, Miami has changed for the worse. The majority of jobs are given to those who travel in illegally, for those who happily accept pay lower than minimum wage, whereas, a citizen of this country has been forced to learn and speak a new language, whether it is spanish or french or be forcibly rejected out of the working environment and finally, what up with this self righteous mentality, as if to say, your on my turf now and you have to comply with my rules and regulations or face ostracism. The last time I checked I was living in the United States of America and it is about we the people and not me and my people alone. Help Obama and clean up this sensitive racism and discrimination in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. That's all.

Maybe we (Americans) should march down to Miami with pitchforks and lanterns and scare all the 3rd world people who screwed up Miami into swimming or floating back to where they came from! I would love to see the Sedano's chain go out of business! And Don Pan!!! We like Dairy Queens and Albertson's not that other crapola!