Posted on 07/21/2021 5:32:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Since the new wave of race consciousness that has been sweeping our country, precipitated by the graphic video of the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, something very strange has happened
Somehow, what is perceived as a problem has become widely understood to be the solution. And it is endangering our country.
If there remain citizens in America who, because of race or any other reason, are deprived of the benefits and protections of a free society, we should work to bring those benefits of freedom to them.
The answer is not to abandon the principles that make us a free country.
But this is what is happening. Those who are the loudest and most aggressive about what is supposedly wrong don't want a free country. Their complaint is not about absence of freedom, but who has power and who will be in charge and running the show.
Nothing could make this clearer than the recent bizarre statement of Black Lives Matter about the current civil unrest in Cuba.
Cuba is an unfree country. It has been run by communists for years. And, like all countries that are run by communists, the people there live deprived and oppressed.
This is not rhetoric. This is fact.
Freedom House in Washington, D.C., is a nonpartisan organization that rates all the nations in the world according to how free they are. They rate nations according to political rights and civil liberties.
Cuba ranks as one of the world's least free countries. Out of a possible score of 100, Cuba scores 13. In political rights, out of a top score of 40, Cuba gets a 1. On civil liberties, out of a possible score of 60, Cuba scores 12.
Yet, Black Lives Matters writes, "The people of Cuba are being punished by the U.S. government because the country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination."
As the information from Freedom House shows, the only sovereignty and self-determination that exists in Cuba is in the hands of the communist despots who run the place.
Yet, in the opinion of Black Lives Matter, the suffering of the Cuban people is not due to the despots running Cuba, who deprive them of their freedom, but it's caused by the free country, the USA, that is its nearby neighbor to the north.
We don't see many Americans fleeing to live in Cuba. But, per the Pew Research Center, there are over 2 million Cuban Americans who left Cuba, or whose family left Cuba, to come to live in a country that is free.
Moreover, per a survey done by Pew in 2020, 58 percent of Cuban Americans identify as, or lean toward, Republicans, compared with 38 percent who identify as, or lean toward, Democrats.
Cuban Americans know what oppression is about, and it's why they care so much about being free Americans.
"Since 1962," says Black Lives Matter, "the United States has forced pain and suffering on the people of Cuba by cutting off food, medicine and supplies."
Yes, the United States maintains an economic embargo on Cuba. Why should our nation provide sources of revenue that will only go into the coffers of the communists who control everything? But, as The Wall Street Journal's Mary O'Grady points out, contrary to BLM's distortions, "food and medicine are exempt" from this embargo.
The one thing that Black Lives Matter gets right is that almost a third of Cubans are Black and brown. Yet, somehow, Black Lives Matter thinks they will enhance the lives of these people of color by supporting oppressors rather than bringing them more freedom.
And, indeed, Black Lives Matter has the same anti-freedom agenda in our country.
The question is why this perverse group has so much credibility and power? What is wrong with our political and business leaders that support these enemies of human freedom?
She still seems to miss the point. A kangaroo trial with a predetermined outcome does not necessarily reveal the truth.
Floyd was a druggie who overdosed to get rid of the evidence.
The Big Get Even by a bunch of psychopaths who just want to watch the world burn.
If we cannot lance this boil and heal our country of this delusional call for “ social justice” and fake ‘systemic racism’ and get back on tract of working together to create a ‘ more perfect union’, we’ll suffer the same fate of South Africa.
> graphic video of the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin
I don’t remember a graphic video of Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd. Is it related to when he overdosed?
Afterwards if they want to join up with the hordes already unleashed our way that is up to them.
BLM was never about helping blacks. They are a commie money-laundering outfit that works at the behest of the DNC. And, in their eyes Cuba is free. After all, they are a commie run dictatorship. That is freedom to scum like BLM and Antifa. Get that? They’ve redefined the word. You are only free if you are communist.
“Obviously the Xiden Junta knows Cuban refugees vote Republican”.
Trump demonstrated more Hispanics and blacks will vote Republican too if a GOP candidate addresses some of their issues and doesn’t pander to them. Unfortunately the elitist country club Republicans believe the Democrat memes and don’t put time and energy into converting minority voters.
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