Heyy! So first of all I would like to say that I am SO excited to have the opportunity to actually talk about being cuban-american specifically (as opposed to just latina-american in general) on a site like this :) its super rare, so i'm pretty excited! (i know its a little silly, but whatevs)

Wow that was a very thoughtful response. You have no business on the internet! I'm not going to pretend I'm persecuted, and there are worse problems to have. It's just irritating.

And I'm not going to pretend that I'm persecuted, and this isn't directed at you because your comment was fine, and accurate, but in general I'm sick of people assuming I'm some uber Republican asshole when they find out I'm Cuban (I'm white as Ted Cruz, although a little whiter because my mother is actually…

Gross. I know that you have issues with (and to be fair, it's problematic) with "white" feminism, but you could've chosen someone more representative than Dunham. I don't know any other white women who would say that Dunham speaks for them or represents their feminism.

It's caused me a lot of pain and strife within my family, but I'm a Cuban American and proud Democrat (although to the left of most democrats). It's mostly generational (I was born in the mid 80s). While my parents and grandparents were pretty solidly conservative and stereotypical Miami Cubans, I notice a pretty even…

I have noticed a lot of resentment among the Asian immigrants I know in the US for the undocumented immigrants from Mexico. It's such a long and expensive process to get visas, green cards, and citizenship. Some of them are pretty bitter about it, but fail to consider that they are jumping through the hoops so that…

+1 I agree. If you listen to the way his brother and the rest of his family speak, they don't have that Texas fried accent.

I totally see where you're coming from. I've had three family members die in separate car accidents, and when I see roadside memorials, I'm freshly reminded of those deaths. For me, it's not so bad as it is for your friend, but I'm sure that for my mother, who lost her father, or my aunt who lost her son, those…

Outside of one's property it feels a little obtrusive. I'm sorry about your loss but don't shove it in my face. I already have jerkoff clients to ruin my day.

What disturbs me is the public nature of it. I dunno, I feel like some people aren't emotionally prepared to handle that kind of stuff. I had a neighbor who, after multiple miscarriages, finally had a boy, whom she lost at 3. And years later, there was an ostentatious neighborhood memorial to a young child who had…

There was just an article the other day with a trigger warning.

why is this family's grief any more important than anyone else's grief? do we all put up mementos of our loved ones? i think that there are better ways to memorialize someone without being narcissistic about it.

But that barricade wasn't constructed for the memorial, right? It was already there?

There was a bigger one which might be the one she tried to disassemble but it is on a barricade leading into a bike area. This is not in front of anyone's house but blocking off one side of a four way intersection.

Totally do not agree with this woman's actions, but I think they may be reflective of her inability to cope with what happened. I'm wondering if her actions mean that she's actually having a difficult time dealing with the death of her child's friend, or if her own child is now asking tons of questions about death and…

This is how they deal with them in Georgia. I mean I feel for families that go through this but a lot of times they become eyesores and are in the way of signs or pedestrians. http://m.ajc.com/news/news/loca…

I don't like memorials, road side or public. They can be slight dangerous depending on where they're placed. I believe that the purpose of graves other than body disposal is for mourning. Why not decorate that or keep a memorial in the home? Why must it be made public?

A local family is suing another family because of the memorial they placed on the side of the highway. Apparently the family had an accident because the passenger said "Well, would you look at that."and the driver felt like he just had to look. They then drove off the road and into a ditch where their car was slightly…

I don't disagree completely, but there are ways to do this other than taking matters into one's own hands.

Hmmm, yeah, but taking over traffic signs and street "furniture" to create memorials is, in my view, not cool. Not safe, not visually pleasing, and even a little invasive. Yes, tragedies happen all the time around us, and, yes, people are entitled to mourn as they feels appropriate. But there are some unspoken limits…