Fidel Castro, Cuba, castro death watch, havana, habana

He wouldn’t want to live in Cuba:

“Their rights and protection from potential genocide and violence depended on them never trying to organize politically as blacks,” said Mark Sawyer, a UCLA professor who spent 11 months in Cuba researching his recently published book, Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba.

That kind of talk also likely scares the Castro government.

“There is an unstated threat,” Moore said. “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.”

Yep, another fine example of Castro’s classless, raceless society.

*”If God were black, my friend,” the title of a popular Spanish-language song.

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