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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“end lingering prejudice and inequality”
hmmm. I thought that since Castro came to power Cuba was free of prejudice and inequality ....
We so rarely see BARF alerts these days. This could use a double.
Amalgamated Propaganda sure remains true to its agenda.
Yolanda Mauri has a technical degree from an elite university yet struggles to earn a living. I wonder if she ever thought it might be due to communism and not racism?
This title was so blatantly agenda-driven, I figured the alert thereof was implied anyhow.
The Castros are as driven to perpetuate racism and the fear thereof as their ideological brethren in the USA who are en route to visit them.
Maybe, they can keep him?
Yolanda Mauri’s ancestors almost certainly came to Cuba in chains
And now she’s back in them.
Thank you. We don’t need to be told what to think about an article.
Castro,Obama,Sanders,Clinton,this is how they feel dark skinned blacks!
Remember always that the Castro brothers were not poor, downtrodden peasants. Their father was an executive with United Fruit. They were children of extreme ( white) privilege.
Actually he's el halfricano.....
None of the commie overlords were. They were always from well-to-do families.
Inspiration? So he is inspiring mulatto Cubans born in Kenya to become President of Cuba? But Cuba already has a dicktator.
They are probably impressed with ball point pens too.
Cubans are muslims?
“He’s a black man whose rise to the world’s most powerful job is a source of pride and inspiration.”
In other words, he may be a petty, commie tyrant, but he’s OUR petty, commie tyrant.
Yes, Cuba should keep him and he should want to be kept. He can become a Cuban community agitator, and take Castro’s place. He can have his own country and transform it any way he wants. Stay Obama, Stay! Don’t come back to the land you hate, the land that has been so unfair to you!
Inspiration to do what?
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