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Title: Cuban State Media: ‘Negro’ Obama ‘Incited Rebellion and Disorder’
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/national-s ... ma-incited-rebellion-disorder/
Published: Mar 31, 2016
Author: Francis Martel
Post Date: 2016-03-31 20:52:29 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 1740
Comments: 12
The article is titled “Negro, ¿Tu Eres Sueco?” which roughly translates to “Black Man, Are You Dumb?” (The idiom “pretend to be a Swede” means to play dumb, hence the title is literally asking, “Are you Swedish?”) The author, who is black, goes on to condemn President Obama for meeting with Cuban pro-democracy activists and “subtly” suggesting that the Cuban Revolution needed to change. “Obama came, saw, but unfortunately, with the pretend gesture of lending a hand, tried to conquer,” Elias Argudín writes. “[Obama] chose to criticize and subtly suggest … incitations to rebellion and disorder, without caring that he was on foreign ground. Without a doubt, Obama overplayed his hand,” he continues. “The least I can say is, Virulo-style: ‘Negro, are you dumb?'” Virulo is a white pro-Revolution comedian. Argudín’s article later accuses President Obama of presiding over a racist country–mocking the calls for freedom in Cuba by stating, “Which freedom–the freedom enjoyed by white police to massacre and manhandle black people?”–and issue demands parroted straight from the Castro regime: the end of the “genocidal” embargo and giving the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, which has belonged to the United States since before Cuban independence, to the Castros. Claims of rampant discrimination on the part of white police in the United States are common among the leaders and spokesmen of rogue communist states like China, North Korea, and Zimbabwe. The column appears on the Havana Tribune website with a March 23 dateline, though it appeared in the print edition of the newspaper on Monday and has begun to make the rounds online this week. It has received intense criticism from Cuban-Americans on social media for its disrespect of the president and openly racist language. Argudín has since written a follow-up article in which he claims he “did not expect” the negative feedback and apologizes “to those who may have been offended.” He then accuses his critics of “misunderstanding” his piece: It is not necessary to be an advanced reader to note: I did not write a racist column. The word “negro” is mentioned twice, in the title and the phrase giving the article its name, which isn’t even mine. It is a reference to a comedy work. Journalism has its rules. It also allows some licenses. Among the demands of the job there is a very important one: capture the reader’s attention from the title. Argudín’s piece has, nonetheless, highlighted the rampant discrimination against Afro-Cubans that has existed throughout the history of the Revolution. As the leaders of the communist Revolution were all white–and at least one was an avowed racist—few Afro-Cubans currently hold positions of power in Cuba, though an estimated 60 percent of the nation is black. In a video declaration in 2015, Ladies in White dissident leader Berta Soler explains that, of known political prisoners, 60 percent are black. Black people are often forced to live in segregated neighborhoods and kept far away from tourism industry jobs (except prostitution). “To the government, the black person is a thief, a bandit, a troublemaker,” Soler argues, noting that the Cuban people are significantly less racist than the regime. “Interracial marriage is resulting in fewer black people. … This is a problem for the government,” she notes. In a series about racism in Cuba, The Root notes a common phrase used by revolutionaries: “Negrada–which means, literally, a group of black people–came to signify a screw-up, a f*cked-up affair. ¡Que negrada! became as common as hustling foreigners.” The inevitable use of what, in the United States, is considered a racial slur (though Cubans often use negro as a term of endearment), is the latest indignity in a trip to Cuba laden with them, from the slight of Raúl Castro failing to greet President Obama upon landing in Havana to Castro openly denying the presence of political prisoners in Cuba, only to have President Obama later “welcome” his criticism on America. The elder Fidel Castro, or someone claiming to be him, weighed in with a scathing column in the national publication Granma this week, in which he accused President Obama of being racist towards Native Americans and refused his call to normalization: “We do not need the Empire to gift us anything.” 
The Havana Tribune, a state-controlled Cuban newspaper, has added insult to injury following Fidel Castro’s scathing criticism of President Barack Obama upon his departure from the island. In an editorial, the title of which refers to President Obama as “negro,” an opinion columnist has accused him of “inciting rebellion.”
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
¡Viva La Revolución! "The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese." "The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations." Another comment came from Guevara’s writing about his time fighting with revolutionaries in the Congo and included this line: "Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine- gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn." - Che Guevara, from his autobigraphy Finally, there’s this line after the revolution in 1959: "We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing."
Nice to know we can add revolutionaries to the lists of racists.I wonder; what is it about the african that engenders universal hatred? No matter where they go don't seem to fit in, even in their own land by BO was only doing what americans do everywhere, endear themselves
Well, they are not like American media, who worship Obunghole as the " messiah ". That must have punctured Obungholes ego a bit. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Ol' Ernie wasn't much of a multi-culturist at heart, I guess. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
Øbama is immune to reality. Or possibly, simply delusional. Despite all the conclusive evidence to the contrary, he still claims to believe he's been a very good chief executive. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
Yeah. He is a legend in his own mind. I wish Cuba would have kept him, & made him pick cotton.
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. There are no Carthaginian terrorists. President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood "I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
That would have been great. He'd still be over-employed but at least it wouldn't be on my tax money. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
here's a little ditty we should set to music Born on a mountain top in hawyai, Learned to be a muslim when he was only three Got him a havard degree and a senate entry Then he cracked the Liberty Bell and made medicine free When the guns were blazing vowed no troops go there Cause when you have a peace prize you cannot fight for liberty. Now the afghans and the Iraqi are free, so are the Libyans and the Syrians All because Barack said they should be
I thought Cubans would call Obama by his proper classification - mulatto? Also Cuba is one of the more mulatto societies of South America/Caribbean. Interesting, so it has a dissociative consonance like Brazil and Puerto Rico.
Funny how your type gets bootyblasted when you're called racist, but then take out these kinds of quotes to prove how really race-obsessed you are. Hypocrite. Btw, Che Guevara had a relationship with a mulatto girl - Zoila Rodríguez García - for almost a decade. Now go eat your own hat (or preferably, your own gun) with your out of context quotes to "prove" your measly agenda.
You are a morbid one, aren't you?
No doubt he made an honest woman of her, as they used to say. Heh, heh.
#2. To: randge (#1)
We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution
#3. To: cranky (#0)
" Cuban State Media: ‘Negro’ Obama ‘Incited Rebellion and Disorder’ "
#4. To: randge (#1)
"We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing."
#5. To: Stoner (#3)
That must have punctured Obungholes ego a bit.
#6. To: cranky (#5)
#7. To: Stoner (#6)
I wish Cuba would have kept him, & made him pick cotton.
#8. To: cranky (#7)
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#9. To: cranky (#0)
#10. To: randge (#1)
#11. To: goodnessmarlok (#10)
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