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Another ivory towerer teaching English showing off his ignorance. How about Castro, a criollo, overthrew the mestizo Bautista? How about the upper organs of the Cuban Communist Party is are dominated by criollos? How about the army Castro sent to Africa was made up of Afro-Cuban cannon fodder led by criollos officers? A freeper shared a story about a Black Panther who went to Cuba an was shocked to see how the criollos lorded over the Afro-Cubans.
1 posted on 11/27/2016 6:38:30 AM PST by C19fan
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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.
2 posted on 11/27/2016 6:40:52 AM PST by Olog-hai
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In the Article "And it's true also that Assata Shakur has become a legend in the history of black radicalism. She was a member of the Black Liberation Army. She was arrested, convicted and then escaped from prison and found her freedom in Cuba. She's like an old Western cowboy hero to countless black Americans, many of whom may not be willing to say that in public, though I know it's so."

Never says WHY she was arrest. But then, that is too inconvenient for the narrative.

3 posted on 11/27/2016 6:42:02 AM PST by KC_Lion ("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
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He was a transvestite.


5 posted on 11/27/2016 6:47:44 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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"Fidel Castro was an unwavering champion of racial equality"

Yep. He oppressed all of his people regardless of race.

6 posted on 11/27/2016 6:48:30 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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This useful idiot’s willful blindness is mind boggling.


7 posted on 11/27/2016 6:50:56 AM PST by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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He and Che singled out the gays and the rock&rollers for death squads. But, you know, leftists never seem to bring that up.


8 posted on 11/27/2016 6:53:01 AM PST by KC Burke (Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
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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


9 posted on 11/27/2016 6:53:20 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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Y’know, there is a level of leftist/globalist stupidity that you just can’t fix.


10 posted on 11/27/2016 6:54:58 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Right versus left is no longer as relevant as Nationalist versus globalist.)
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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.


11 posted on 11/27/2016 6:55:10 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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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.


12 posted on 11/27/2016 6:56:29 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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***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.


13 posted on 11/27/2016 7:05:09 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Castro viewed race as a tool for agitation. Nothing more. Anybody who bought into his hustle were little more than useful idiots.


14 posted on 11/27/2016 7:06:28 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Somewhere Jeb weeps. (please clap))
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Everyone was subject to equally bad treatment.


15 posted on 11/27/2016 7:10:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise ( Democrats' last peaceful transfer of power was January 1981.)
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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.


16 posted on 11/27/2016 7:13:32 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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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.


17 posted on 11/27/2016 7:14:04 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (???? It dissappeared.)
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I dare say 95% of freepers will equate criollo with mulatto

When it’s the complete opposite


18 posted on 11/27/2016 7:14:25 AM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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Everybody is equal when they’re dead.


21 posted on 11/27/2016 7:23:37 AM PST by sevlex
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Is this the same Fidel Castro who called Obama a stupid monkey?


22 posted on 11/27/2016 7:25:11 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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If indeed Castro was a champion of racial equality, that would put him a step above American progressives.


24 posted on 11/27/2016 7:30:25 AM PST by BlueYonder
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But was Batista actually a mulatto?


25 posted on 11/27/2016 7:33:58 AM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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