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Belafonte and Glover Come to Castro's Defense Against Bush (Castro needs all the help he can get.)
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| 5 May, 2003
Posted on 05/05/2003 6:32:56 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
Belafonte and Glover Come to Castro's
Defense Against Bush
President George W. Bush poses a graver danger to the world than Fidel Castro does to the world or the people he oppresses, 160 artists and intellectuals argued in a two paragraph statement released last week, mere weeks after Castro carried out executions and imprisoned dozens for daring to speak against his dictatorship. Amongst the signers: Actors Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte.
The letter warned: "At this very moment, a strong campaign of destabilization against a Latin American nation has been unleashed. The harassment against Cuba could serve as a pretext for an invasion."
Bob Novak made the statement his outrage of the week on Saturday's Capital Gang on CNN and Tony Snow cited it in his Below the Fold segment on Fox News Sunday.
An excerpt from a May 1 Reuters story by Marc Frank in Havana about the defense of Castro:
More than 160 foreign artists and intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, have come out in defense of Cuba even as many of their peers condemn recent repression on the Communist-run island, one of the campaigners said on Thursday.
Latin American Nobel laureates Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Aldolfo Perez Esquivel and South African writer Nadine Gordimer, also a Nobel prize winner, have signed a declaration of support, Mexican sociologist Pablo Gonzalez said.
U.S. singer Harry Belafonte and U.S. actor Danny Glover are also among the personalities who have signed the two-paragraph declaration "To the Conscience of the World" so far, Gonzalez announced to a May Day rally in Havana.
"A single power is inflicting grave damage to the norms of understanding, debate and mediation among countries," the declaration says, referring to the United States and the war in Iraq.
"At this very moment, a strong campaign of destabilization against a Latin American nation has been unleashed. The harassment against Cuba could serve as a pretext for an invasion," it continues....
At the Thursday rally Castro told critics, particularly on the left, that their words could be used to justify a U.S. invasion.
The intellectuals who signed the declaration defending Cuba apparently agree, though they did not specifically express support for Castro's policies.
The declaration concludes with a call to governments and others to "uphold the universal principles of national sovereignty, respect for territorial integrity and self-determination, essential to just and peaceful co-existence among nations."...
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Harry is hurtin'
He does seem to have fascinations with two-bit dictators - whaz up wit' dat?
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:32:56 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
To: Happy2BMe
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:35:31 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(LIBERTY has arrived in Iraq - Now we can concentrate on HOLLYWEED!)
To: Happy2BMe
Because he is a two-bit dictator wanna be.
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:38:04 PM PDT
by
Search4Truth
(When a man lies, he murders part of the world.)
To: Happy2BMe
Danny Glover is still fronting MCI on TV.
No wonder MCI is in bankruptcy.
Makes me angry every time I see their commercials.
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:45:48 PM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: Happy2BMe
Belafonte and Glover never met a Commie dictator they didn't like. Where is Joe McCarthy when you need him? Bring back HUAC! Fidel is an oppressor of Blacks in Cuba. Most Cubans are Black. There are no Blacks in positions of power in Castro's regime. Belafonte and Glover's hero is a white supremacist. What hypocrites!
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:46:21 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((( For the Left, insanity is destiny )))
To: Happy2BMe
"uphold the universal principles of national sovereignty, respect for territorial integrity and self-determination,...
So..does this mean they are AGAINST the UN, WTO, Koyota, EU ? or is this just blathering feel good speak ?
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:48:54 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(2 wrongs don't make a right.....but 3 rights make a left)
To: Free ThinkerNY; All
There are no Blacks in positions of power in Castro's regime. Belafonte and Glover's hero is a white supremacist. What hypocrites!Anyone remember the semi-clever ending to the movie "Vixen"?
To: stylin19a; DB; Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:57:20 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(LIBERTY has arrived in Iraq - Now we can concentrate on HOLLYWEED!)
To: stylin19a
This means we must respect the integrity of all Communist states/terror states, while allowing our own sovereignty to be compromised by joining the International Criminal Court, signing Kyoto, etc. /sarcasm off
To: DB
Makes me angry every time I see their commercials. Same here!
Thank goodness I switched from MCI several years ago.
To: eddie willers
DESPITE CUBA'S HISTORY OF TOLERANCE
CASTRO IS A CALCULATING RACIST -- HERE'S WHY
July 30, 1993
OMAR LOPEZ MONTENEGRO Special To The Miami Herald
Omar Lopez Montenegro lives in Miami and represents the Association for Free Arts and the National Civic Union, opposition groups inside Cuba.
SPEAKING of races always leads to racism. When a society finds itself forced -- or impelled -- to establish a different political discourse for its citizens depending on the color of their skin, it is undoubtedly sick. In Cuba there never was a Martin Luther King Jr. because there were no segregated coffee shops, or rest rooms either.
In 1909, seven years after the republic was proclaimed, a black, Martin Morua Delgado, was elected speaker of the Cuban Senate. On Oct. 10, 1868, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes's first act of national sovereignty consisted of liberating his slaves, before taking up arms against Spain.
Contrary to the United States, where the Revolutionary War was the concern of whites nearly exclusively, the Cuban nation cast itself -- and emerged in the eyes of the world -- as free of the racial stigma. The three basic institutions that preserve the Cuban identity are a faithful reflection of the crossbreeding that characterizes the Cuban. Both whites and blacks use the same popular argot, and Cuba's religious patroness, the Virgin of Charity, is a mestizo.
In 1953, the year in which Fidel Castro assaulted the Moncada barracks, blacks and mestizos made up more than 52 percent of Cuba's population. According to a popular saying, in Cuba anyone who does not have a bit of Congo has a bit of Carabali.
Although you could not speak of interracial harmony -- where does it exist? -- before Castro Cuba was entirely bereft of interracial antagonism. For want of a program of betterments for the entire population, Castro has maximized the racial problem in order to pretend that at least the blacks have been redeemed and have regained their lost dignity.
The frustration of blacks in Cuba today can be measured in numbers: 85 percent of Cuba's prison inmates are black or mestizo, and nearly 90 percent of the inmates are under age 35. Faced with this raw fact, Castro gave a demagogic speech ordering an increase in the number of blacks in the Cuban Communist Party. This speech brought two things to light: Either the party had restricted blacks' access, betraying its racist character; or blacks had no interest in joining the party, automatically disqualifying it as the redeemer of blacks.
In instituting race as one of society's poles and establishing separate categories for citizens, the regime is having a noxious impact on the concept of nationality. In the economic, social, and moral crisis now shaking the Castro regime's foundations, race is one of the burning issues of official propaganda. Castro is promoting the concept of a separate black identity, which was absent from Cuba's national conscience before he took power, to weaken his internal opposition and its capacity for cohesiveness. Unless democracy intervenes, this process will result in the dismembering of Cuban society, with consequent social regression.
In his eagerness to manipulate race to his advantage, Castro is producing a regression that will prove to be much more detrimental to blacks in the long run than the racism they supposedly had to deal with at the end of the Batista dictatorship. Bear in mind that the population of Cuba does not perceive nuances. It has been educated to think only in black and white. In such a society, the introduction of thought partitioned by race contributes to increasing the violence already existing within it.
By using the racial theme demagogically to divide Cubans and to remain in power, Castro is merely confirming what he made patently clear soon after taking power: He is the most racist ruler that Cuba has endured.
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posted on
05/05/2003 7:08:23 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((( For the Left, insanity is destiny )))
To: DB
me too.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Amen. My hand automatically hits the mute button when Glover's voice reaches the nerves of my alimentary canal. Gibson gets my respect for professionalism.
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posted on
05/05/2003 7:17:42 PM PDT
by
NewRomeTacitus
(Will tolerate anything until threatened.)
To: Happy2BMe
Belafonte and Glover....the original dumb and dumber!
Belafonte is an outright racist who'll turn on his own people in a second if they don't follow his agenda while Danny Glover is a non-talent hypocrite actor who speaks out against violence and war...of course he's never been in a movie with any redeeming qualities or one in which everything was not blown to smithereens and people shot up like swiss cheese....can you say "hypocrite?"
To: God luvs America
Yeah, I agree with most of what you said and I can't watch a Glover movie any more. However, Grand Canyon had some value.
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posted on
05/05/2003 7:31:26 PM PDT
by
GBA
To: GBA
I like Silverado, too.
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posted on
05/05/2003 7:48:29 PM PDT
by
Ruth A.
To: Happy2BMe
hey yo, come daylight an y'wanna go home.
To: God luvs America
"Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch daylight come and me want go home....dayooo, dayooo,
To: Happy2BMe
Let's call's 'em like we see 'em.... Belafonte and Glover are probably both communists, given their proclivity toward the left.
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posted on
05/05/2003 11:00:47 PM PDT
by
Humidston
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law)
To: Happy2BMe
MCI Customer service Contact page-
E Mail
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posted on
05/06/2003 11:16:51 AM PDT
by
Kay Soze
(France helped Osama Bin Laden kill 3,000 US citizens in New York on Sept 11,2001.)
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