Posted on 11/27/2016 6:38:30 AM PST by C19fan
Okay, the media failed supremely in not realizing Americans could elect an empty-headed, knee-jerk liar as President. But, still, I say the greatest media shortcoming of the past half century was not recognizing that Fidel Castro was the most dedicated and powerful proponent of racial justice the world has ever known. Castro's commitment to black Americans was shown early on, notably in 1960, when he came to New York City fresh from his leftist revolution in Cuba, and sat with Malcolm X in Harlem, cameras clicking for all the world to see.
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Okay, the media failed supremely in not realizing Americans could elect an empty-headed, knee-jerk liar as President …And after eight years, he is finally on his way out.
Never says WHY she was arrest. But then, that is too inconvenient for the narrative.
I doubt that she actually found freedom in Cuba. She may not be imprisoned there, but it is highly unlikely that she is “living the dream.”
He was a transvestite.
Yep. He oppressed all of his people regardless of race.
This useful idiot’s willful blindness is mind boggling.
He and Che singled out the gays and the rock&rollers for death squads. But, you know, leftists never seem to bring that up.
Carlos Moore, who has written extensively on the issue, says that “there is an unstated threat, blacks in Cuba know that whenever you raise race in Cuba, you go to jail. Therefore the struggle in Cuba is different. There cannot be a civil rights movement. You will have instantly 10,000 black people dead”.[11] He says that a new generation of black Cubans are looking at politics in another way.[11] Barack Obama’s victory has raised disturbing questions about the institutional racism in Cuba.[1] The Economist noted, “The danger starts with his example: after all, a young, black, progressive politician has no chance of reaching the highest office in Cuba, although a majority of the island’s people are black.”[12]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Cuba
Y’know, there is a level of leftist/globalist stupidity that you just can’t fix.
Apartheid in Cuba is well-entrenched.
Its not racial - its more of the nature in which a few live well and everyone beneath them lives in misery.
The latter kind of equality is experienced daily by white and black Cubans alike.
Ron Howell doesn’t want to live like that, I’m sure. Then again, there is only so much a Castro sycophant to reinvent reality.
Apartheid in Cuba is well-entrenched.
Its not racial - its more of the nature in which a few live well and everyone beneath them lives in misery.
The latter kind of equality is experienced daily by white and black Cubans alike.
Ron Howell doesn’t want to live like that, I’m sure. Then again, there is only so much a Castro sycophant can do to reinvent reality.
***when he came to New York City ***
I remember that! He killed live chickens in his hotel room and for years cartoonists always showed him choking a chicken.
Castro viewed race as a tool for agitation. Nothing more. Anybody who bought into his hustle were little more than useful idiots.
Everyone was subject to equally bad treatment.
Castro cared about racial equality in America only as far as an avenue of attack.
He’s fine with racism as long as championing against it got him power.
Oh hummm. Ron Howell has been a full-time reporter or editor with a long string of news organizations over the past 37 years, including Newsday, the New York Daily News, the Associated Press, Ebony Magazine and The Baltimore Evening Sun. Despite being a sexagenarian, he loves the Internet Final Cut Pro 7. Perhaps more than these things, he loves Cuba. Howell first went to Cuba as a reporter in 1987, when the Soviets were still subsidizing the country. He spent a week there interviewing Assata Shakur, wanted still in the killing of a New Jersey state trooper. In an article that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he was the first to report that Shakur was living in Cuba under a grant of asylum.
I grew up in NYC and the NY Daily news was our daily paper. Dick Tracy, Terry and the Pirates were worth waiting for when dad came home at night. In the early 50’s it was a middle of the road with a slight right tilt paper, today it is what the NY Post was back then. As a teenager in college Castro was a hero, he defeated the tyrant Batista, but when he started to put people against the wall, and then having Cienfuegos mysteriously killed in an airplane (explosion?) accident, my interest in him waned. By the Time he was in NYC with Khrushchev, my love affair with Fidel was completely over. I remember seeing on black and white TV the number of black Cubans being shot by the Castro firing squads. My friends in Germany spent a month down there 3 years ago, they recommended staying home, it wasn’t a paradise by any standard. They claim everywhere they went they always felt some one was watching them. I had lunch with a Cuban family yesterday, they were celebrating.
I dare say 95% of freepers will equate criollo with mulatto
When it’s the complete opposite
The specious “equality” so beloved of all totalitarians comes down to one thing - you may only be “equal” if your grasp of philosophy is within the narrowly defined parameters of what is “correct” thinking. “Incorrect” thinking is swiftly punished, sometimes with extreme prejudice.
Regardless of ethnic background.
In the Cuban military the officers are white, the sergeants are mulatto and the privates are black.
Castro boasted, “I may be illegitimate but I’m 100% white!”
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