[aruanan]

Another visiting caucus member, Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, was reported by the April 11 New York Post to have said, "We've been led to believe that the Cuban people are not free, and they are repressed by a vicious dictator, and I saw nothing to match what we've been told." A government tour can lead you to believe anything.

Reminiscent of the fools who were taken on tours of the Soviet Union in the 20's and 30's and came back gushing things like, "I have been over into the future, and it works!" But what can you expect? W.E.B. Du Bois was still praising the Nazis as late as 1937. It's funny that these same people who praise folks who are truly enemies of mankind also describe presidents like Bush as Nazis!

[Venturer]

The Congressional Black Caucus were led around like the children in a candy factory in the movie Willie Wonka.

They went without their Guardians, but their Guardians arent that bright either.

When you send a contingent of America hating bigots to a place like Cuba it is easy for a bright dictator like Castro to convince them that America is worng. In fact they already WANTED to believe it before they left on their trip.

[Brad from Tennessee]

In the late 1960’s a group of Black Panthers fled the U.S. and went to Cuba with the expectation that Castro would employ them in some revolutionary cause somewhere. When their novelty wore off, Castro put them to work cutting sugar cane. Most of them left Cuba.

FROM AN ESSAY BY SERVANDO GONZALEZ:

” . . .In the mid-sixties some Cuban intellectuals, among them Walterio Carbonell, a Marxist sociologist and a friend of Castro from their days at the University of Havana, and Nancy Morejón a young poet, tried to create a Cuban version of the Black Power movement. As soon as Castro's secret police got word of it they were detained. Morejón quickly realized her ideological mistake and promised to reform. Carbonell, who believed that there were too many whites on Fidel's non-racist society, persisted on his ideas and was given a two year hard-labor sentence in one of Castor’s gulags.”

http://www.intelinet.org/tyrant/race.htm

[Le Chien Rouge]

Fidel , saluted “this legislative group. The aura of Martin Luther King is accompanying them.”

Fidel,

Please explain why Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, a Black Cuban dissident was sentenced to 27 years in YOUR prison for organizing a seminar to teach his fellow Cubans about Dr. Martin Luther King and his non-violent forms of protest??? (from Real Cuba.com)

[aruanan]

Here's a link to a 2008 piece by Goldberg in National Review called A half century's slander: it isn't conservatives who must answer for fascism. It explains a lot.