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I'm tired so I'll make this concise and go to bed.

You basically lumped ALL cuban exiles/immigrants into your lovely bigoted and obviously resentful diatribe.

I'm sorry that you were personally offended by the fact that the Cuban flag was waved, or that you were blamed for being a gringo (although I think it was more because you are a blatant bigot based on your statements).

This is good. Maybe while she's at it, she could also encourage all recent Cuban immigrants to learn how to speak English,

"all recent Cuban immigrants"? Not all come here knowing English (not exactly an encouraged language over there) and if they just got here, how quickly do you expect them to learn it?

stop sucking off welfare,

That shows your ignorance since Cubans are one of the least likely ethnicities to receive any type of assistance because of their resistance to government dependence in any form.

and put down that Cuban flag and wave the Stars and Stripes,

During Elian, the anti-exile crowd adopted Old Glory as their Cuban-hating emblem, so what else where the Cubans supposed to use to show unity? Maybe the Confederate flag?

instead of burning the American flag when they start another riot like they did almost two years ago.

There was ONE recorded instance of flag-burning and it was quickly stopped by other Cuban exiles. The guy who burned Old Glory was suspected of being a Castro plant in the crowd. Oh, and by the way, there was no "riot". Were any homes or businesses burned or looted? Were people dragged out of their cars and assaulted? Standing on street corners protesting loudly is not considered a riot, it's called a protest. You were just threatened by such a large group of brown people in a confined area.

Being anti-Castro is commendable, but if they can't also be Americans, then they should get back on the raft.

Rick - In case you didn't hear, if it wasn't for the Cubans, there would be a President Gore in the White House. And the "get back on the raft" comment was just plain disgusting. Ugh!

Famous Florida bumper sticker: "Would the last American to leave Miami, please bring the flag."

The only people I ever saw with those bumper stickers were the kind of people I was glad to see leaving Miami anyway.

Good night Rick. I'll be on tomorrow if you wish to continue your debate.

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Oh, am I? Well, if being for reduced immigration and not wanting the part of the country I live in to turn into another banana republic makes me a "bigot," then so be it. I'm certainly no more of a "bigot" than, say, a National Review editor who calls for all Americans of Chinese descent to be placed into internment camps, under the ridiculous pretense that every single one of them might be commie fifth columnists, or vile neo-cons like William Kristol who believe all Arabs (both Muslim and non-Muslim alike) are evil and should be nuked off the face off the earth. Similar views are shared by many people here at Free Republic. So tell me, who's the real bigot here, hmm? It's ironic seeing certain Republicans playing the race card just like any other typical Democrat when it suits them.

And I most certainly did NOT make my feelings on the Cuban immigration issue known to them, they harassed me first. Besides, doing so is not a safe thing to do here where I live.

By the way, I didn't feel "threatened" by this "large group of brown people" at all. In fact, a couple days after ABC aired that "interview" Diane Sawyer did with Elian Gonzalez, I met a group of Cuban Americans who were protesting outside our city's ABC affiliate. It turns out they were a dissenting faction of my city's Cuban exile community who wanted Elian Gonzalez to go back with his father and they thought Sawyer's actions were beyond reproach. I shook their hands and said I totally agreed with them, then I took a flier.
So as you can see, I don't hate *all* the "brown people" you speak of, and certainly not all Cubans or Hispanics. And seeing how my own father was a Peruvian citizen for the first three years of his life, I think it's pretty low for you to accuse me of all people of anti-Hispanic bigotry, although I've seen quite a lot of Cubans who are guilty of it themselves, mainly expressing bigoted views against Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. But hey, I'm sure you'll just give some paranoid, knee-jerk response that the people I met were really part of some covert disinformation campaign and Castro planted them there for that purpose, so what it does matter what I think, right?