Mr. Valdés seems uncharacteristically thoughtful when discussing his friend's life. His friend, he says, has chosen to live as a black man rather than as a Miami Cuban.The New York Times' "How Race Is Lived in America" series starts with this profile of a black man and a white man who were best friends in Cuba but find that their new lives in Miami are circumscribed by the color of their skin.
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"He said that?" Mr. Ruiz asks, lifting his eyebrows. "I don't know why he would think that blacks are delinquents. I know he doesn't think that of me, and I'm black. I've always been black." A pause. He thinks some more. "He grew up with blacks," he says. "I don't understand it. Maybe something bad happened to him. I am sure he is talking about American blacks."
Mr. Valdés seems uncharacteristically thoughtful
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