State-controlled Cuban newspaper: ‘Negro’ Obama ‘Incited Rebellion and Disorder’

Obama misteps during Cuban trip are obvious

One of the most interesting charges against Obama is that he is too black and yet not black enough. In Cuba, they will claim that there is no racial prejudice and that the United States is a nation of blatant racists and bigots. Obama, in fact, has been very biased in supporting black citizens, including black thugs and criminals who should have been incarcerated. He also invited the black lives matter criminals to the White House for a meeting and to praise their “community activism.” It must hurt to hear the Cuban writer say that the U.S. is a place of rampant discrimination.

Obama should not trouble himself in that regard, because communist nations such as Russia, Cuba, China, and North Korea always make the claim of injustice and racism in the U.S. since it plays well to the crowd. In fact, all of the communist nations are exceedingly racist, though that may be the least of their crimes. But there is no doubt that Obama got no respect or appreciation for his unilateral political shenanigans in trying to establish relations with Cuba. From that standpoint, he really was made to look the fool.

The article is titled “Negro, ¿Tu Eres Sueco?” which roughly translates to “Black Man, Are You Dumb?”  The author, who is black, goes on to condemn President Obama for meeting with Cuban pro-democracy activists and “subtly” suggesting that the Cuban Revolution needed to change. “Obama came, saw, but unfortunately, with the pretend gesture of lending a hand, tried to conquer,” Elias Argudín writes.

“[Obama] chose to criticize and subtly suggest … incitations to rebellion and disorder, without caring that he was on foreign ground. Without a doubt, Obama overplayed his hand,” he continues. “The least I can say is, Virulo-style: ‘Negro, are you dumb?’”

Argudín’s article later accuses President Obama of presiding over a racist country–mocking the calls for freedom in Cuba by stating, “Which freedom–the freedom enjoyed by white police to massacre and manhandle black people?”–and issue demands parroted straight from the Castro regime: the end of the “genocidal” embargo and giving the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, which has belonged to the United States since before Cuban independence, to the Castros.

Argudín’s piece has, nonetheless, highlighted the rampant discrimination against Afro-Cubans that has existed throughout the history of the Revolution. As the leaders of the communist Revolution were all white–and at least one was an avowed racist—few Afro-Cubans currently hold positions of power in Cuba, though an estimated 60 percent of the nation is black.

In a video declaration in 2015, Ladies in White dissident leader Berta Soler explains that, of known political prisoners, 60 percent are black. Black people are often forced to live in segregated neighborhoods and kept far away from tourism industry jobs (except prostitution). “To the government, the black person is a thief, a bandit, a troublemaker,” Soler argues, noting that the Cuban people are significantly less racist than the regime. “Interracial marriage is resulting in fewer black people. … This is a problem for the government,” she notes.

The inevitable use of what, in the United States, is considered a racial slur (though Cubans often use negro as a term of endearment), is the latest indignity in a trip to Cuba laden with them, from the slight of Raúl Castro failing to greet President Obama upon landing in Havana to Castro openly denying the presence of political prisoners in Cuba, only to have President Obama later “welcome” his criticism on America. The elder Fidel Castro, or someone claiming to be him, weighed in with a scathing column in the national publication Granma this week, in which he accused President Obama of being racist towards Native Americans and refused his call to normalization: “We do not need the Empire to gift us anything.”

You can almost feel sorry for Obama for his lack of understanding and his inability to see that he has lost his glow with the international community. But he is responsible for taking a trip that not only did not advance the cause of the United States in Latin America, but in fact did damage to our stature and prestige. And the comments from Fidel Castro and his opinion of Obama and his visit are also a truly embarrassing example of Obama’s poor skills as leader of the free world.

Source: breitbart.com