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For black Cubans, Obama visit a source of pride, inspiration
Associated Press ^ | Mar 20, 2016 12:47 PM EDT | Michael Weissenstein

Posted on 03/20/2016 12:55:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Yolanda Mauri’s ancestors almost certainly came to Cuba in chains, laboring as slaves on an island of French coffee plantations and fields of Spanish sugarcane.

Her parents became their family’s first professionals, graduating with engineering degrees after Cuba’s 1959 revolution ended segregation. Mauri, 26, graduated from an elite technical university with a degree in computer programming. Today, she struggles to patch together a living from poorly paid government work and freelance jobs like building websites. She feels the sting of racism in casual derogatory comments or a maître d’s refusal to seat her in an expensive restaurant.

For Mauri and hundreds of thousands of black Cubans, Barack Obama isn’t just the first U.S. leader to visit their country in nearly nine decades. He’s a black man whose rise to the world’s most powerful job is a source of pride and inspiration.

Obama’s March 20-22 visit has raised Cubans’ hopes that a new era in relations with the United States will bring an end to the U.S. trade embargo and improve life for everyone on the island. For Afro-Cubans in particular, the presidential trip carries a special charge, a hope that an African-American leader’s near-universal popularity among Cubans of all races will help end lingering prejudice and inequality. …

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TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: apracebaiting; blackcubans; castros; communism; obama
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To: Tax-chick

So much of today’s “news” is a barf-fest that every second title on FR would read “barf alert”. Default redundancy.


21 posted on 03/20/2016 3:45:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Argus

That’s right; like black Americans the Afro-Cubans cheer communism because in the short run it was an improvement for them. That “improvement” ended decades ago (in both countries), and they’ve been in misery since.


22 posted on 03/20/2016 3:59:57 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Olog-hai

——She feels the sting of racism in casual derogatory comments or a maître d’s refusal to seat her in an expensive restaurant.——

Most people do not know blacks in Cuba are treated as second class citizens...

I thought in socialist paradise like Cuba all were equal...


23 posted on 03/20/2016 4:05:48 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m wagering a guess here that over half of the islands white population left after Fidel grabbed power


24 posted on 03/20/2016 4:08:47 PM PDT by wardaddy (Cruz path to nomination is a box canyon)
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To: Olog-hai

I hate comments in the title with a visceral passion. But who knows ... maybe other people like being told how to react.


25 posted on 03/20/2016 4:14:21 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: Olog-hai
Yolanda Mauri’s ancestors almost certainly came to Cuba in chains,

Yeah. Almost certainly rounded up and sold to the slave traders by Obama's ancestors.

26 posted on 03/20/2016 5:49:22 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Olog-hai
Anyone who is “proud” of the evil Obama is an immoral degenerate.
27 posted on 03/20/2016 5:54:11 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Olog-hai

Cuba can keep him.


28 posted on 03/20/2016 7:04:55 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: Olog-hai

Mao murdered mostly Chinese, Stalin killed mostly Russians, and the Mau Mau mostly killed blacks. A bullet in the brain pan is indifferent to the ethnicity of the finger on the trigger.


29 posted on 03/20/2016 7:05:18 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Olog-hai

Where’s the barf alert? There should be a barf alert! :P


30 posted on 03/20/2016 9:11:39 PM PDT by luvie (Cruz or Lose! "Where the vision is lost, the people perish"--Proverbs 29:18)
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To: nascarnation
Actually he's el halfricano.....

*snork*

31 posted on 03/20/2016 9:13:20 PM PDT by luvie (Cruz or Lose! "Where the vision is lost, the people perish"--Proverbs 29:18)
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To: Spok

Just goes to prove that you can get away with anything, as long as the people you hurt are the same race as you.


32 posted on 03/20/2016 9:15:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Spok
“A revolution without firing squads is meaningless.”

— Lenin
Anyone claiming that Obama and Sanders (never mind Hillary) are not about this dictum ultimately is not telling the truth.
33 posted on 03/20/2016 9:17:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Popman

Even in Zimbabwe, blacks are still second-class citizens next to ZANU-PF party elites.


34 posted on 03/20/2016 9:19:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Kid Shelleen; All

Prejudice against blacks and Indians is alive and “well” in Latin America. Many years ago while it Mexico, I met a family of elderly “Spanish” spinsters. They were telling me about there youngest sister who had recently married a successful businessman. But they scornfully said in Spanish, “But she married and Indian.” I am sure that whatever jobs there are in the communist uneconomy, they go first to the light skinned.


35 posted on 03/21/2016 12:30:39 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Texas Eagle; Popman; All

Obama’s ancestors, the black ones, were from Kenya on the east side of Africa. If they engaged in slave trade it was to the middle east. Our slaves were brought from east Africa, and yes they were originally captured by other Africans and sometimes Arabs. Travel across the African continent in a commercially useful time frame was almost impossible in slave trading days.


36 posted on 03/21/2016 2:07:54 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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