Pitbull on living up to his Cuban parents' American dream: 'You gotta take full advantage' of opportunities:
Cuban-American rapper Pitbull talked about the immigration crisis and what it means to him as a first-generation American on"The View" Thursday morning.
Pitbull's grandmother fought for Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba who was known for establishing the first communist state in the Western hemisphere, during the Cuban revolutionary war, Pitbull said. By the 1960s,"it became clear" to Pitbull's Grandma that"he wasn't the best for the country," Pitbull told The Guardian. She sent her daughters, including Pitbull's mother, to the U.S.
"We all bleed the same blood, we all breathe the same air, we all put our pants on one leg at a time," he added."And when we start figuring that out, is when we can really understand that we're really not that different. We're really more similar than we believe." Pitbull said that they always found"a way to make it happen" but that the school system"failed" him."Living in all these neighborhoods and going through the system, I just feel like the system was built to fail you instead of push you through."
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