NAACP to open office, affirm 'kinship' in Cuba

Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 | By Steve Miller

[JohnHuang2]

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans to open an office in Havana.

"Cuba likes the idea of an NAACP chapter established there, and we are very open to it," said Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington office. "We have no timeline on this and haven't set a date to open the office."

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Quote of the Day by Rain-maker

[BenLurkin]

Is this what they have in "kinship"?

[Pookie Me]

It also held a four-hour meeting with Mr. Castro and left with a promise from the dictator to buy produce from black farmers in the United States. "President Fidel Castro promised to establish trade links with black farmers, and it appears he has kept his word," Mr. Mfume said in a statement.

Okay, I'm confused. I thought it was against U.S. law to allow trade with Cuba.
Secondly, how does it appear Castro kept his word when the promise was only made during those four days?

Pookie & ME

[JohnHuang2]

Imagine the hue and cry had the Christian Coalition set up an office in Chile during the days of Agusto Pinochet.

Liberalism, hypocrisy is thine middle name.

[JohnHuang2]

Exactly -- your South Africa anology draws the point even sharper.

[The Obstinate Insomniac]

ping

[Southack]

The NAACP's claim to use "churches" to bypass Kennedy's embargo on Cuba puts to lie the "non-political" use of the tax-exempt status of Churches which hold NAACP rallies in the U.S.

It also lays bare a raw Communistic, anti-Americanism that has taken over liberal politics in America.

[f.Christian]

Thanksgiving 1999...

Elian/Donato washed Bush ashore in Miami---

gore-reno-clinton out to sea!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

*** "The NAACP, if it is really doing civil rights work there, is needed," said Omar Lopez, director of the Human Rights Project with the Cuban American National Foundation. "I have never heard of Kweisi Mfume trying to improve the lives of blacks under the Castro regime."***

....IF it is doing civil rights work.....I have NEVER heard of......***

It's just a bunch of bs.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Where They Shoot You if You Try to Leave (FR featured site of the month)*** What many American's who grew up during the cold war once understood but have now forgotten, is the fact that a premise of Communism is that individuals have no rights. Under Communism, people are literally assets of the state. They stop you from leaving because trying to liberate yourself is literally interpreted as an attempt to steal yourself - your productive labor - away from the state.

How can I get you, the reader, to fully grasp what this means?

The best analogy for this situation is pre-Civil War slavery. Slaves were considered property of the slave holders. And plantation owners often deflected criticism by boasting how well cared for their slaves were - "See: food, shelter, clothing." Families grew, happy children were raised. And slaves probably derived some pride from a day's job well done.

Castro says, "Look, all my citizens get free school, free healthcare! We are better than Capitalism! What he doesn't mention is that the price is servitude for life. Of course, if you mind your own business, work hard, and don't express any political opinions - except loyalty to the revolution, you get left alone. But open your mouth or try to get away and you end up at some government labor farm.

Well, why don't all Cubans try to get away? Well, why didn't all slaves try to get away? Because for a long time the vast majority were brainwashed into thinking that there was no hope, that slavery was their fate, and the natural order of things. Many bought the notion that they were actually better off with someone taking care of them - making the most fundamental decisions for them.***

CUBA'S REPRESSIVE MACHINERY - Human Rights Forty Years After the Revolution

Jay Nordlinger: Who Cares About Cuba? *** A DICTATORSHIP AND DOUBLE STANDARDS So, there are a couple of names named: Rene Montes de Oca Martija and Jose Orlando Gonzalez Bridon. There are thousands of others, belonging to thousands of other political prisoners. Hear (merely) three more: Vladimiro Roca, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, and Maritza Lugo Fernandez. These names mean nothing in our country, except to Cuban-Americans.

Perhaps the most inspiring name of all is that of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet Gonzalez, a virtual saint of the resistance. Biscet is a practitioner of civil disobedience in the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, his avowed models. He has been imprisoned and tortured since 1998. We know, through his wife, that he has blessed and forgiven his torturers even as they have tortured him. Here is a man-Biscet-whose name should be on many lips. Cuban dissidents complain bitterly that if he were a prisoner of a right-wing regime he would be a worldwide cause. Yet he is anonymous; not even his dark skin seems able to help him. The stream of American celebrities who go to Havana to sup, smoke, and banter with "Fidel" are oblivious.***

[goldstategop]

The NAACLP is finally showing its hard left colors. Thank you for that move Kwaisi Mfume and Julian Bond. To paraphrase a turn of phrase, "Your devotion to the Fidel Castro Wing of American politics is wretched and unflattering in its nearly canine devotion to ideas that belong in the museum of history."

[KeyWest]

They are marginalizing the NAACP and moving it toward oblivion.

[CWRWinger]

This sounds like a ploy. My first thought is it's a front for a spy office to receive information from the USA to be distributed to our enemies.

[The Obstinate Insomniac]

Thanks for your additions.