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How can we be so
selfish to want to deprive these young and vibrant
American youths from experiencing the old-world
charm of Cuba’s dilapidated buildings and barefoot
children playing in the streets? For what—the
freedom of eleven million Cubans? Not if it is going
to infringe on Bridget and Erik’s rights to enjoy
watching poor Cubans struggling everyday to feed
their children!
The most amazing
thing to me is that neither the writer of this
article nor Bridget or Erik even realizes the
significance of what they are writing or saying. To
them, Cuba and its people are nothing more than a
vacation stop. When they walk through the streets of
Havana and see the old cars, the shoeless and
shirtless children playing with empty cans, the
rundown buildings and the homeless beggars, they see
a quaint little village of natives who don’t know
any better.
They don’t see the
human suffering because deep down inside, they don’t
see humans.
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