Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Attention Black Caucus

Still wearing your Che t-shirts? Swooning over all those wonderful medical benefits Castro doles out ala Michael Moore's propaganda pics?
    "Afro-Cubans officially make up 62 percent of the Cuban population and possibly 70 percent. Afro-Cubans “are experiencing strong and growing instances of racism on the island, with their 25-odd civil rights movements reporting a wide range of discriminatory practices in hiring, promotion and access to Cuba’s socialized medicine and educational system,” according to the U.S. State Department." Read article by Matt Hentoff, Rampant racism in Cuba
HT SafeLibraries

1 comment:

SafeLibraries® said...

Should someone contact this guy?

"'Ethiopia Reads' Founder to Keynote American Library Association Event"

Maybe he could speak out about the ALA's ignoring Afro-Cuban civil rights like Andre Codrescu spoke out while giving an address to the ALA about the Cuban librarians the ALA ignores. See "Author Codrescu, at President's Program, Slams ALA's Cuba Stance," Library Journal, 23 January 2006.