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re: Prepare to cringe- Kaepernick defends Fidel Castro
Posted on 11/27/16 at 8:40 pm to gthog61
Posted on 11/27/16 at 8:40 pm to gthog61
Glad you got a good laugh, but laughing at Juan won't teach Johnny to read. Put politics aside and accept reality. It doesn't mean that Cuba is better but they are better at this one thing.
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Posted on 11/27/16 at 8:43 pm to REG861
I know that they live in a dictatorship with 100% voter participation. 
Posted on 11/27/16 at 8:44 pm to Ricardo
I admire your honesty. Most people are afraid to be openly racist.
Posted on 11/27/16 at 8:46 pm to sugar71
I remember that they offered to send doctors here to the US to help rural and minority areas and we declined. We can't admit that we don't take care of the people most at risk.
Posted on 11/27/16 at 8:48 pm to Easy
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It doesn't mean that Cuba is better but they are better at this one thing.
I don't think everything Castro did was bad, but unfortunately any sincere efforts to better the Cuban people were undone by the totality of his regime's tenure. I'll give you credit for distinguishing between his accomplishments (whatever they may be) and the rest of his track record. Sugar71, on the other hand, is a joke.
Posted on 11/27/16 at 8:49 pm to Easy
I guess I could argue the virtues of Hitler, Stalin, Hussien, or Chavez. They all did some good things. At the end of the day, dictatorships are evil by definition. Whatever good they do is always overshadowed by their absolutism. Why anyone would waste their time to argue otherwise is beyond me.
Posted on 11/27/16 at 8:52 pm to Aubie Spr96
Google tells me that coño means c unt
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Posted on 11/27/16 at 8:53 pm to Easy
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I remember that they offered to send doctors here to the US to help rural and minority areas and we declined. We can't admit that we don't take care of the people most at risk.
The offer was that Americans would go attend medical school in Cuba and then go back to America to treat communities. We obviously were not going to accept that offer. This is a good read.
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Posted on 11/27/16 at 9:04 pm to Easy
Posted on 11/27/16 at 9:07 pm to Easy
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Glad you got a good laugh, but laughing at Juan won't teach Johnny to read.
Johnny not being able to read has less to do with the structure of education and more to do with the structure of his family.
Disdain for fatherhood and education among individuals doom the children.
Posted on 11/27/16 at 9:09 pm to Easy
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Posted on 11/27/16 at 9:16 pm to Aristo
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Posted on 11/28/16 at 8:22 am to RogerTheShrubber
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You think these offset their incredibly horrible record of civil rights? Or the fact that Che was racist as hell and believed black to be "indolent?"
Cuba was racist, even with civil rights laws. The lighter, the better you were treated. Not to mention firing squads, political prisoners, Forced labor camps, arrest of children over the age of 9, sham trials.
So racism abruptly ended in America with Civil Rights Laws?
Fidel Castro nor Jesus himself can completely undo racism that has been ingrained ,tolerated in his country for centuries.
Fidel Castro cannot change people's hearts, but he &
Che implemented Anti Discrimination laws in Cuba years before the US.
Roger please stop spewing that Che 'racist' nonsense From his diaries when he was travelling college student /adventurer. Not the revolutionary.
I certainly would not risk my life like Che by going to Africa & fighting side by side with African Blacks/Afro Cubans if I was so adverse to them.
Posted on 11/28/16 at 8:31 am to Easy
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I remember that they offered to send doctors here to the US to help rural and minority areas and we declined. We can't admit that we don't take care of the people most at risk.
Cuba also offered to send thousands of medical professionals to New Orleans during Katrina.
Cuba sends Doctors throughout the world (especially Africa & S.America ) to assist poor countries.
I'm not blinded by a dictator like Fidel, but it's amusing to see people not understand that in most of Africa, S America & parts of Asia that Castro is viewed differently than the caricature created in the US(Miami in particular).
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Posted on 11/28/16 at 8:34 am to REG861
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The offer was that Americans would go attend medical school in Cuba and then go back to America to treat communities. We obviously were not going to accept that offer. This is a good read.
Black Americans are allowed to go to Cuban med school for free today. Many have gone & are attending now.
Posted on 11/28/16 at 8:52 am to sugar71
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Che implemented Anti Discrimination laws in Cuba years before the US.
I guess all homosexuals, dissidents, 'deviants', intelligentsia, and anyone else deemed unfit for the revolution (and approved for imprisonment and liquidation) didn't count.
Posted on 11/28/16 at 9:36 am to REG861
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I guess all homosexuals, dissidents, 'deviants', intelligentsia, and anyone else deemed unfit for the revolution (and approved for imprisonment and liquidation) didn't count.
Dictators can be mercurial Reggie. What the hell do you want from me?
Castro has admitted to being "embarrassed" about how the revolution treated Gays.
Call the treatment of Gays under the revolution "A great injustice.....If anyone is responsible it is me(Fidel Castro)".
And Cuba has nearly turned a 180 as respect to Gays & even gender reassignment surgery is free, Gay clubs appearing , Transgenders leading the huge May Day parade.
I wonder how many of those that were "liquidated" were Batista Thugs.
Ted Cruz father can attest to Batista purges.
Posted on 11/28/16 at 9:57 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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