Posted on 12/03/2009 9:34:33 PM PST by SmithL
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country's national identity.
The five-page signed statement, distributed by Cuban government press officials in an e-mail, defended Cuba's progress in providing social and personal opportunities for blacks and people of mixed race.
But it focused more on Cuba's past than the racial inequalities of contemporary Cuban society that came under criticism from Americans such as Princeton University professor Cornel West; Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of President Barack Obama's Chicago church; and Susan Taylor, former editor of Essence magazine.
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lawl
How could anybody claim racism against people like them?
I find it hard to believe they didn't recognize the largest “plantation” in the Caribbean.
Wow, this is great news!!! Latino socialist/commie pigs from Cuba going head to head with black socialist/commie pigs from the U.S. Now if we can only get the Hollywood socialist/commie pig celebrities to join the fight, and then sit back and enjoy them rip each other apart. Sounds like popcorn time once again!!!
[Cuban statement said the island is not a racist society, saying blacks have opportunities “like never before in our country.”]
One recent reform allows Cuban blacks to where protective eye goggles and leather gloves with gauntlets when cutting sugar cane.
From searching on this post I found this delicous 2008 adticle + comments, “Castro’s Cuba was no place for a socialist like me”. http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/514326/castroandx2019s-cuba-was-no-place-for-a-socialist-like-me.thtml
LoL
Has it been that long ago? It seems like it was last week.
Thanks for the link. I remember when a group of American Black Panthers, including fugitive Eldridge Cleaver, went to Cuba where they became celebrities until they started preaching their rhetoric. Castro put them to work in the cane fields. I think all of them left Cuba except one.
What does it say about the American Left, especially Black Americans on the Left, who’d willingly remain silent about the suffering of Black Cubans rather than risk the appearance of agreeing with their fellow Americans who are Republicans? Castro is lucky to have such allies with such scruples, like his own. His allies on America’s Left aren’t afraid to put their allegiance to him above the poor Cuban Blacks? Better chic than consistently pro-justice for Black people for these “prominent” Black American Leftists.
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