Did Cubans & Haitians Ruined South Florida/Miami?

[lionking]

Miami has become this in the last 20 years....

80% of the people speak spanish preferably, 40% can only speak spanish. Of the percent that can speak english most of them have a dialogue that consists of mostly "yo dawg" "yo bro" and "yo my *n*i*g*g*a" in their speech in between 4 letter words.

Before I left Miami one night at a gas station in line to pay there was this Puerto Rican kid behind me telling his friend "Miami reminds me of NY where I am from, everything between here and there is "crackerville".

But it isn't Cubans that the thread implies because they have generations now that speak english, the biggest problem that so many from latin central and south America fllooded Miami in 10 years to where nobody needs to speak english, let alone proper english.

Miami youth these days are a bunch of fast & furious wannabees with gangland speech patterns for the most part

[chicagonut]

Originally Posted by jasper12

Haitians? No. Cubans? Yes.

Sadly, African Americans have become completely marginalized in South Florida. Section 8 housing vouchers go to Cubans first. African-Americans who have lived in Miami for generations have been shoved aside for Cubans. Speaking Spanish has become almost a pre requisite for employment in Miami now.

Sadly it is becoming that way here in the southwest also due to the high influx of Mexicans and other Latinos both legal and illegal. That is why diversity quotas are so important but have gone by the wayside. "Immigrants" tend to assimilate when there is a good mix rather than a saturation from one ethnic group.

[Iamme73]

Originally Posted by JackTheRipper

Let's be civilized, and not start any flame wars..

I was just watching a documentary on the miami dade county channel, on cubans arriving in the 60's and 80's, when the haitians came.

and how the south florida paradise was lost after the cubans/haitians came.

I've been hearing the same from old white folks.

Your opinion?

My opinion is that the documentary and those old white folks are racist.

[Lucario]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Obviously that's not what i mean. Hell, they were the segregationists in their own country to some degree.

My point is that it was no paradise before the Cubans and Haitians arrived there. Simple as that. Maybe for a narrow portion of the population, but it was hell for other people.

Yes..........