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Ñooo! Que Barato! Ad Depicts TV Show Host In Blackface 5/3/2022 Miami New
Times: "Blackface became popularized as a form of theater in Cuba in the 19th
Century as a form of racial mockery after formerly enslaved people and
Afro-Cubans demanded inclusion and emancipation. But when Cuban exiles came to
the U.S. and particularly Miami in the latter half of the 20th Century,
blackface comedy and minstrelsy — known in Cuba as teatro bufo — found new life,
according to anthropology professor Ariana Hernandez-Reguant. "Cuban blackface
minstrels...found a welcome in exile," Hernandez-Reguant and coauthor Jossianna
Arroyo-Martínez write in "The Brownface of Latinidad in Cuban Miami," an essay
published on the website CubaCounterpoints.com. "In 2000s Miami, Cubans have
used blackface to comment on a new society structured by class and race. The
more they themselves have been represented in the U.S. media as brown (recall
Scarface, and more recently, Paula Deen's son as Ricky Ricardo), the more they
have claimed a whiteness that should grant them inclusion and a path for upward
mobility."
Another racist blackface controversy erupts in the Cuban community, this time in
Hialeah 5/3/2022 WLRN: "The comedian — José Pérez, known as Carlucho — also
wears exaggerated red make-up around his mouth and a white Santería turban on
his head. Ñooo Qué Barato!’s owner, Serafín Blanco, told WLRN the commercial
reflects "Cuban tradition" and he didn't originally consider it offensive — even
though blackface is now generally viewed as racist. "I don't consider myself
racist," Blanco said. "I voted for [Barack] Obama. I thought he was a good
president.""
How Florida’s ‘anti-woke’ bill could impact public universities 4/16/2022 Tampa
Bay Times: "That virtues such as merit, excellence, hard work, fairness,
neutrality, objectivity and racial colorblindness are racist or sexist, or were
created by members of a particular race, color, sex or national origin to
oppress members of another race, color, sex or national origin."
Did Marco Rubio's Former Intern Storm the Capitol on January 6? 3/24/2022 Miami
New Times: "A former Vice City Proud Boy who was at the Capitol on January 6 and
spoke on condition that he not be named for fear of retaliation, confirms to New
Times that Balmaseda was there with Garcia. "Barby was there," he says."
FL Legislature stuck last-minute policy changes to HB 7; critics call it a ‘huge
problem’ 3/14/2022 Florida Phoenix: "“So basically it took a bill, turned
it on its head and basically said ‘oh if you have a complaint, if you believe
that a higher education institution, for example, taught history or taught
racism in a way that made you feel uncomfortable, in violation of the Stop WOKE
Act, you can bring that complaint to a political committee of the Florida
Legislature.’ I say political because it is made up of politicians with
Republicans in the majority. That committee will be the judge, jury, and
executioner on all violations of House Bill 7.”"
Florida House passes measure limiting race-related instruction 2/24/2022 WLRN
Miami: "Under the measure, school instruction or workplace training would
constitute discrimination if it “compels” people to believe certain concepts.
For example, the measure targets training sessions that would lead people to
believe that they bear “responsibility for, or should be discriminated against
or receive adverse treatment because of, actions committed in the past by other
members of the same race” or sex."
After fiery debate, ‘Individual Freedom’ bill banning ‘woke’ lessons in schools,
businesses heads to House floor 2/9/2022 Florida Politics: "Its sponsor,
Rep. Bryan Ávila of Miami Springs, acknowledged the bill “brings out a lot of
passion” but insisted its aim was not to discriminate."
Freedom from discomfort or a knowledge ban? ‘Individual freedom’ bill covering
schools, businesses moves in House 1/26/2022 Florida Politics: "Ávila and
Republican Rep. Mike Beltran of Lithia repeatedly insisted the bill would not
stop the instruction of difficult historical subjects including slavery, the
Holocaust or internment camps. The bill only requires they be taught
objectively, and that teachers not wander from the approved curriculum."
Black lawmakers hammer Ileana Garcia over ‘deeply hurtful’ race comments 1/20/2022 Politico: "Some
Black members of the Florida Senate have soured on Miami Republican Sen. Ileana
Garcia after she said during a TV interview that people should “move on” from
experiences with racism — comments that came days after she quietly clashed with
a veteran Black senator after an otherwise mundane committee meeting."
Democrats riled by Spanish-language radio attacks on Kamala Harris 12/21/2021 Politico: "Florida
Democrats are sounding alarms over what they believe is a sustained and
coordinated campaign rapidly unfolding across Spanish-language media to tarnish
the image of Vice President Kamala Harris. Democratic veterans in the state are
unnerved by the ferocity and speed of the attacks, which have come from callers
and guests on local radio programs in recent weeks. They suspect the
participants are part of a larger, astroturf effort to diminish Harris’ standing
among key Latino constituencies in a region where Republicans have notched sharp
gains. Even more worrying for these Democrats has been the lack of pushback from
their party. The fears spilled out into the open when a Miami-based Democratic
pollster took to social media to warn that he’s been hearing arguments against
the vice president from talk-show callers that he felt appeared scripted."
More proof Democrats may write off Florida 12/17/2021 Politico: "From a
political calculus, a large group of Democrats calling on the White House to
reinstate policies from the Obama administration is a tacit acknowledgment that
Florida doesn’t matter anymore. Trump defeated Biden in Florida in 2020 in no
small part due to the inroads Trump made in Miami-Dade County among Hispanic
voters. Florida Democrats were already upset about the Biden administration's
decision to remove a largely defunct Colombian rebel group from a list of
terrorist organizations. Some groups backing the move to normalize relations
with Cuba contend that such actions would be popular with Cuban Americans.
Recent electoral history — where accusations of Democrats being socialists —
would suggest otherwise."
Dems find their anti-Rubio warrior in Val Demings 10/17/2021 Politico: "She
was campaigning almost exclusively on Facebook, growing an army of small-dollar
donors across the nation on her way to raising a staggering $8.5 million in the
most recent fundraising quarter —$2.4 million more than Rubio reported and more
than any Senate challenger in the country between July and October. Her
fundraising haul provided a sudden burst of hope to Florida’s beleaguered
Democrats, who reveled at the idea of a cash-flush Senate nominee whose star
power sparked the imagination of Democrats across the country."
Black Lives Matter Support for Socialism Creates Sharp Divide with Cuban
Americans 8/4/2021 Newsweek: "Cubans, Mohl wrote, injected "new life" into
the city, but "also brought in the wake of their invasion a host of grave social
and economic problems." Those problems included competition for jobs, housing,
schools, and government services. "The Cubans are slowly taking over the
business of Dade County," complained the Miami Times, the city's Black weekly
newspaper, in 1966."
Critican a Black Lives Matter por los invitados que elige para foro virtual
sobre Cuba 7/27/2021 Cibercuba: "En un escrito de abril de este año,
titulado ‘Contra la rabia política: una vacuna y una propuesta’, Zurbano analizó
el impacto del Movimiento San Isidro (MSI) en la dinámica actual de conflictos y
propuestas dentro de la cultura y la política de la Cuba actual desde una visión
que, si bien incidió en el racismo latente dentro del proceso “revolucionario”,
redujo el potencial verdaderamente revolucionario del MSI y llamó a estar
preparados para la “racialización” interesada de conflictos por parte del “el
escenario mediático de Miami”."
Black Lives Matter nuevamente criticado por los invitados que eligió para foro
virtual sobre Cuba 7/27/2021 Cubanos por el Mundo: "Cabe destacar que, el
movimiento BLM en días anteriores fue duramente criticado por su postura de
elogiar al régimen castrista y pedir el fin del embargo a Cuba por parte del
gobierno de Estados Unidos, esto mientras los ciudadanos cubanos eran cruelmente
reprimidos mientras expresaban su derecho de manifestar libremente." [Claro que
la solucion es mas bloqueo!!!]
Activistas antirracistas emplazan a Black Lives Matter desde Cuba 7/26/2021 Diario
de Cuba: "En las redes del grupo Alianza Afro-Cubana se puede leer un comunicado
que emplaza directamente a los representantes afroamericanos: "Black Lives
Matter, tengamos una conversación. Escucha las voces de los negros cubanos",
comienza la misiva en inglés y luego evalúa aquel tweet del grupo como
"decepcionante, vergonzoso y parcial". "Ustedes se centraron solamente en el
embargo e ignoraron los reclamos del pueblo, su dolor (…) Han decido alinearse
al poder que dio la orden de violentar brutalmente a todas las personas que
salieron a la calle el pasado domingo 11 de julio. Personas que en su mayoría
son negras (…) Según el Gobierno, en la protesta todos eran 'vándalos',
'delincuentes', 'marginados' ¿les suena el escenario?", preguntan recordando a
BLM que esas son las mismas acusaciones que reciben ellos en Estados Unidos por
parte de la derecha."
“RESPUESTA A BLACK LIVES MATTER” Escrito por Pablo Betancourt Guilian y Enrique
Patterson 7/17/2021 Pablo Betancourt Guilian: "Desde 1959, el gobierno
cubano le ha quitado todos los derechos y libertades fundamentales al pueblo
cubano, y no es casualidad que Cuba sea el único país donde la población negra,
no se benefició de los logros y avances del Movimiento de Derechos Civiles en la
década de los 60s."
RESPONSE TO BLACK LIVES MATTER Written by Pablo Betancourt Guilian and Enrique
Patterson 7/17/2021 Pablo Betancourt Guilian: "Since 1959, the Cuban
government has taken away all fundamental rights and freedoms from the Cuban
people, and it is no coincidence that Cuba is the only country in the western
hemisphere, where the black population did not benefit from the achievements and
advances of the Civil Rights Movement in the decade of 1960s."
Miami Police Chief Clashes With Proud Boys Member at Cuba Protest 7/14/2021 Miami
New Times: "Why are you with Black Lives Matter?" the man asks Acevedo,
referring to the former Houston police chief's words of support in the media for
social-justice protests last year. Asked again about why he supports the Black
Lives Matter movement, Acevedo becomes incensed."
Miami’s Republican Cuban Americans need to soul search and confront their racism 4/7/2021 Miami
Herald
‘An Attack on Democracy’: Democrats Call For New Election Amid Florida
Republicans’ Sham Senate Candidate Scandal 3/20/2021 Law & Crime: "As
previously reported by Law&Crime, former Florida State Sen. Frank Artiles this
week was charged with several felonies for allegedly recruiting a former
lobbyist and longtime friend, Alex Rodriguez, to run as a third-party candidate
in last year’s District 37 Senate race. Rodriguez was one of at least three
third-party Florida Senate candidates who were all funded by the same unknown
dark money donor(s) as part of an alleged scheme to siphon votes away from
Democratic candidates."
Reveses y oportunidades para afrolatinos en medio de una reacción violenta
contra el BLM 3/3/2021 Chicago Tribune: "Para Yvonne Rodríguez, nativa del
sur de Florida, ser afrolatina en el oeste de Miami significa entrar en contacto
frecuente con el racismo casual de sus vecinos hispanos blancos, ya sea en forma
de “bromas desagradables” o de apelativos incómodos (“¿Qué pasa, mulata? ¿Qué
pasa, mi negra?”). Incluso como cubano-estadounidense de segunda generación,
Rodríguez se encuentra con que su identidad latina y sus lazos con la patria de
sus padres son constantemente cuestionados. “Es psicológicamente agotador
intentar convencer a alguien de que eres tan latino como ellos”, dijo."
Amid backlash against Black Lives Matter, Afro-Latinos find setbacks and
opportunities 2/26/2021 Miami Herald: "For South Florida native Yvonne
Rodriguez, being Black in West Miami means coming in frequent contact with her
white Hispanic neighbors’ casual racism, be it in the form of “off-putting
jokes” or uncomfortable appellations (“What’s up, mulata? What’s up, mi
negra?”). Even as a second-generation Cuban American, Rodriguez finds her Latin
identity, and her ties to her parents’ homeland, put under constant questioning.
“It is psychologically exhausting to try to convince someone that you are just
as much of a Latino as them,” she said."
Medios dependientes del cibernegocio contra Cuba 12/28/2020 Granma: "El
Departamento de Estado, la Agencia de EE.UU. para el Desarrollo Internacional
(USAID) y el Fondo Nacional para la Democracia (NED) de esa nación, financian
esta maquinaria mediática que se ha beneficiado de los más de 500 millones de
dólares que la Casa Blanca destinó en los últimos 20 años para la subversión en
Cuba. Con el fin de recibir de modo expedito los financiamientos, varias de
estas publicaciones digitales contrarrevolucionarios se han registrado en otros
países como organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG)."
Hola Otaola! Can A Racist Demagogue Be A Serious Defender Of Cuban Rights? 12/3/2020 WLRN: "Otaola
preaches to his legions of fans that those protests are not about racial justice
but are instead a showcase for the “Marxist agenda” of the Black Lives Matter
movement. They’re proof, he screams, “of the level of communist infiltration in
our schools, universities, barrios and low-income families.” They’re “dressed up
by the left as humane” but are “actually led by delinquents, savages and
unscrupulous anti-Americans” using Floyd’s killing (which he's admittedly
criticized) to “launch an all-out attack on U.S. democracy.”"
Brevard County: Deputy Jafet Santiago-Miranda Executes Black Teen for Driving
Past Him 11/22/2020 Cop Blaster: "Brevard County Deputy Sheriff's Office
(BCSO) Deputy Jafet Santiago-Miranda executed two black teenagers for trying to
drive past him. The shooting was caught on his dash camera where you can clearly
see that the vehicle he shot at was turning right in an effort to drive past him
(see video below). The vehicle was obviously going to great lengths to evade the
officers without actually hitting them."
What is the future for Latino voters in the US? Five experts weigh in 11/10/2020 The
Guardian: "A large portion of Latino voters in Florida are conservatives for
whom the legacy of the Cuban Revolution – and, more recently, Venezuela’s move
to the left – are central to their voting decisions. To that end, Republicans
worked overtime this election to paint Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as
socialists, despite the candidates’ moderate positions within the Democratic
party. But that’s not the entire story. The narrative about socialism was
bolstered by conservatives’ labeling of Black Lives Matter supporters as
Marxists and communists. Support for Trump among certain Latino populations in
south Florida must be seen within the context of anti-Blackness, heightened by
the Black Lives Matter protests and a Black woman as the vice-presidential
candidate. Mislabeling Black Lives Matter as “communist” was a way to repackage
racism among white Cubans and other white-identifying Latinos and make that
racism politically palatable."
Chocolate demandará a Alex Otaola por racista 11/2/2020 Cuba
Trendings: "“Ayer salió Alex Otaola nuevamente difamándome, disfrazado y
hablando cosas, pintado de negro. Un acto muy doloroso que me ha puesto muy
triste”, dijo el autor del Palón Divino. El reguetonero, objeto de polémicas,
intentos de deportación, juicios y chanchullos de todo tipo, amenazó a Otaola:
“Yo ando con negros malos y te voy a demandar”."
Review shows objectionable content routinely appeared in columns in el Nuevo
Herald insert 9/20/2020 Miami Herald: "The columnist wrote that Michelle
Obama reminds him of a “black monster” in Dante’s Inferno. Other times, he wrote
that Islam is “filth,” Native Americans “primitive” and Africa the “ass of the
world.” On another occasion still, he called George Floyd “ugly,” a “common
criminal” and the protests over his death at the hands of police “racial
whoremongering.” And then there’s the time that he wrote, in all apparent
seriousness, that Black Lives Matter protesters should summarily be put to
death."
It is a testimony to how broken @Facebook is 9/5/2020 Michael Deibert: "It
is a testimony to how broken @Facebook is that the group created to support the
Movimiento San Isidro - an important artistic & civil society movement within
#Cuba itself - has become a sewer for extreme right Cuban exiles in the U.S.,
full of racism, misogyny & homophobia."
Latinos can be racist, too. My community shows how. 7/28/2020 WaPo: "There
is indifference, or outright hostility, to the Black Lives Matter movement
online, in conversations and on the streets among many Latinos. I’ve attended a
few large, overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations in Miami and was initially
pleased to see so many multi-ethnic Latinos. But, later, when I remembered that
we make up nearly three-quarters of the county, the numbers seemed
underwhelming. Daniella Capote, a 27-year-old law student who was born and
raised in Miami, told me at a protest that she was infuriated by the lackluster
support. Latinos, she said, “forget where they came from, Cuban Americans, in
particular. … They need to do more than recognize racism; they have to act
against it.”"
Africastro-Americans: Los cubanos y George Floyd 7/2/2020 Cibercuba: "Estados
Unidos es el país que más ha hecho por erradicar el racismo de raíz, pero, a su
vez, los enemigos de la sociedad abierta también han hecho de todo para
radicalizar la guerra racial en los Estados Unidos. Los totalitarios no toleran
la armonía social en una economía de mercado. Y trabajan a la sombra y a la luz
pública para desmoralizar y, eventualmente, desmoronar al capitalismo."
South Florida Grapples With Its Own Contested Monuments Of Spanish Conquistadors 6/30/2020 WLRN,
Miami: "QUEELEY: I've thought about this question and what is the kind of
society that I would envision that I would want to live in? What would they do?
One of the obvious answers to that question is, of course, having them in
museums, so they can actually be used as tools for education. I'm hoping that
we're on the brink of some kind of process of truth and reconciliation
nationally. And I wonder whether or not an actual burial of these statues would
be appropriate in having some kind of ritual that would kind of signal that we
are embarking upon a new chapter in this country."
Monumentos cubanos en peligro 6/30/2020 Cubanet: "Respetuosamente discrepo
con el autor de la petición y con el consejo de dirección de la revista digital
Comunistas que lo apoya. No creo que José Miguel Gómez sea autor de ninguna
limpieza étnica, ni creo oportuno comenzar en Cuba una cacería de supuestos
racistas para retirar sus estatuas. El Partido Liberal no discriminaba a los
negros, de hecho José Miguel Gómez era amigo de Evaristo Estenoz, líder de los
Independientes y las filas de los Independientes se nutrieron mayormente de los
negros y mestizos del Partido Liberal. Como anécdota recuerdo que en la guerrita
liberal de 1917 había muchos negros, incluso el padre del poeta Nicolás Guillén,
el periodista negro Nicolás Guillén Urra murió peleando por el Partido Liberal y
por José Miguel Gómez. La historia no es en blanco y negro, tiene muchos matices
y sobre la base del análisis histórico puedo afirmar que José Miguel Gómez no
tuvo ningún plan de limpieza étnica o exterminio de negros y mestizos."
Against Experts' Advice, Police Once Again Deploy Tear Gas at Miami Protest 6/29/2020 Miami
New Times: "The widespread use of chemical agents on protesters in more than 100
US cities during the global coronavirus pandemic has drawn criticism from
experts who say the substances could worsen the effects of COVID-19. Although
chemical irritants are considered non-lethal, they can cause permanent
disabilities if used incorrectly. Rubber bullets are far more damaging. A 2017
British Medical Journal analysis of projectiles used in crowd control found that
15 percent of people injured were permanently disabled and 3 percent died.
Earlier this month, a Fort Lauderdale woman suffered a fractured skull after
being hit by a rubber bullet at a protest."
Cubans For Trump Faced Off With Black Lives Matters Protesters In Miami Lakes 6/29/2020 CBS
Black Lives Matter Protesters Come Face-To-Face With Cubans For Trump Supporters
In Miami Lakes 6/28/2020 CBS: "About an hour after it started, a caravan
organized by the group “Cubans for Trump” arrived to support the president and
had signs that said “Blue Lives Matter.”"
Miami Cop Arrested And Charged After Tasing A Pregnant Woman On Her Stomach And
Lying On The Police Report 6/26/2020 Blavity: "The Miami gardens cop
dragged Safiya Satchell out of her car, knelt on her neck and began using a
taser on her. She was pregnant and lost the child. "
As the country debates racism, support for Trump and views on race divide Cuban
Americans 6/24/2020 Miami Herald: "Many conservative Cuban Americans
believe that the #BlackLivesMatter movement and mainstream media exaggerate
police excesses and racial discrimination issues to push a “leftist” agenda.
Others, especially Afro-Cubans and those born or raised in the U.S., have
expressed dismay at some responses that they believe are tone-deaf, especially
when coming from Cuban activists concerned about human rights on the island.
Ávila told the Herald he is “in favor of demonstrations” but does not support
“that many extreme leftist groups have hijacked the outrage and channeled it to
legitimize their agenda.”"
El violento de José Daniel Ferrer García 6/24/2020 Rosi Hernandez
Contreras: "Todos sabemos que el violento de José Daniel Ferrer García hace lo
que sea con tal de llamar la atención en las redes sociales pero esta vez se
pasó tres pueblos. Resulta ser que este egocéntrico señor ordeno a los
delincuentes que dirige raparse la cabeza como parte de un show mediático que
intentan protagonizar asemejándose al grupo cabezas rapadas o Los skinheads.
Amigos este grupo es conocido en todo el mundo como neo-nazis ya que pretenden
limpiar la sociedad actual de lo que llaman “escoria”, aunque para ello deban
recurrir a métodos de violencia que se conocen como “brigadas de limpieza”."
We are black and we matter. Stop racism! 6/23/2020 Durdu El loco: "Watch
til the end - the last comment made by Alex Otaola will shock you - he is
encouraging his listeners with his racist remarks and this is the stuff they
respond with. This is a disgusting display of the every day racism that seems to
be socially acceptable within the Cuban community both in Miami and Cuba. This
has to stop!"
Cubans In Miami Hold An Anti-Black Lives Matter Protest For Trump!! 6/17/2020 MTO
News: BLM is accused of being communist.
Respetando todas las opiniones esta mas o menos es la mi´a. 6/13/2020 Alexis
Valdes: "Unas palabras sobre el debate acerca del racismo."
Miami citizens’ group to counter-protest Sunday 6/12/2020 Local 10: "Evelio
Mendina wants to spread a message of peace. On Friday, he stood at the base of a
statue of Christopher Columbus, one of two in downtown Miami that were defaced
by protesters on Wednesday. “We’re defending what’s important and that is
freedom. Basically, there’s room for everybody, as long as it’s peaceful.”
Medina founded his own group called the Law Abiding Citizens’ Coalition. He was
outraged to see the statues become the target of what were otherwise peaceful
protests."
Hay muchas personas que no tienen conciencia de la historia de los negros en
EE.UU., dice profesor 6/11/2020 CNN: "La muerte de George Floyd puso
nuevamente en debate el tema del racismo en Estados Unidos. ¿Es el racismo
solamente patrimonio de los blancos o también está presente dentro de los
hispanos? En Miami, José Manuel Rodríguez intenta dilucidar esta interrogante."
In 2018 Text, Miami Mayor Called Police Department Problems "Made Up" 6/11/2020 Miami
New Times: "Danny Suarez served on the CIP from 2011 to 2016. He says that
during that time, he saw the Internal Affairs department botch numerous
investigations and watched as cops with histories of misconduct were permitted
to remain on the force. Current CIP member Steve Navarrete, who has been on the
panel for three years now, corroborates Danny Suarez's claims, saying the CIP's
recommendations to MPD often go ignored. "There are some officers with a number
of allegations against them. We make our recommendations, and most of the time
the city will not follow our recommendations," Navarrete says."
Analisis: El racismo en Miami ante acusaciones de periodista Mario Vallejo 6/10/2020 Noticias
Generacion News
Marco Rubio called them ‘extremists.’ They’re really Miami rappers. They want a
retraction. 6/10/2020 Miami Herald: "When cops arrested Marco Antonio Lopez
on allegations that he vandalized patrol cars during a protest in downtown
Miami, the arrest report noted he was part of a group known as the “Southern
Slaves,” which “actively recruits people to violently protest the government.”
That drew the attention of U.S. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who tweeted the arrest
was evidence of “extremist groups” organizing to cause mayhem at protests over
the death of George Floyd and police brutality. But the Southern Slaves aren’t
an extremist group. And they are not monitored by the FBI or listed by
hate-group trackers like the Anti-Defamation League or the Southern Poverty Law
Center. They’re a group of aspiring hip-hop musicians from Miami’s Flagami
neighborhood, buddies uploading their music online, doing shows at open-mic
nights and spreading a message of what they consider government overreach.
“We’re not terrorists. We love America. What we don’t love is systematic
oppression and police brutality,” said Alonzo Martinez, 23, whose stage name is
“Zo The Atlantean.”"
(Tercer Round) DESDE MI BALCON: DIEZ PARRAFOS DE MEMORIA CONTRA LA PANDEMIA DEL
OLVIDO 6/9/2020 Afrocuba lgbtiq+: "Otra memoria selecta oculta la historia
negra de Miami en los sesenta, cuando la emigración cubana desplaza de sus
barrios afroamericanos y bahameses, primero y haitianos después, diseñando la
actual capital cultural de la Hispanoamérica blanca. Leyes del estado otorgaron
privilegios suficientes para construir su estratégico enclave. Operación tan
perfecta que en el famoso filme Moonlight, ganador de un Oscar, cuya historia
negra sucede en Miami, hay una escena brechtiana en la playa, donde el
protagonista explica al niño: “Hay mucha gente negra en Cuba, pero no lo sabes
porque estás en Miami”. Esa puya descubre la presencia fantasmal afroamericana,
empujada hacia el norte, incluyendo el black campus del Miami Dade College. Mas,
esa memoria regresa, verificada por Alan Aja, Corina J. Moebius y Monika Gosin,
sus libros cuestionan el silenciamiento de políticas raciales en un Miami
olvidado y multicultural, visibilizan conflictos etno-raciales, marcan el éxodo
de Mariel dislocando la demografía de la ciudad, muestra la presión cubana para
ubicar los llamados marielitos en otros estados y ciertas tácticas de
invisibilidad racial en esa urbe."
"Cuban Lives Matter": Raudel Collazo pone la mira en la realidad de Cuba 6/9/2020 Radio
Marti: "A Raudel Collazo no hay quien lo silencie, ni las propias autoridades
castristas. Desde que comenzó su carrera en 2003, este artista contestatario ha
producido numerosos temas que cuestionan la falta de derechos en Cuba y las
represalias que existen contra aquellos ciudadanos que tienen la valentía de
pronunciarse contra el régimen. Este martes el cantautor cubano lanza un nuevo
tema titulado "Cuban Lives Matter", que parodia el slogan de las protestas
contra el racismo y la violencia policial en EEUU “Black Lives Matter”, con el
que busca -según dijo a Radio Televisión Martí- dirigir la atención a lo que
sucede dentro de la isla."
Andrés Albuquerque del Afro Cuban Forum sobre Ferguson 6/6/2020 Un Nuevo
Dia: Esta muestra del periodo de Ferguson unos años atras muestra una reaccion
que probablemente sigue hoy en dia en contra a los activistas afro. Andrés
Alburquerque es presidente del Afro
Cuban Forum en Miami.
Me llegó el fragmento de la directa de Eliecer Avila Cicilia con Sandor Valdes. 6/5/2020 Tania
Bruguera: "Escuchar a Eliecer decir que el problema de la raza en EEUU es que
los negros son vagos, cito “que es su culpa que no encuentran trabajo” es de una
ignorancia política sin precedentes y es el argumento de los blancos racistas.
Le recuerdo a Eliecer que en EEUU él no es considerado como blanco porque es
latino."
Estados Unidos: personal médico protesta en Miami contra el racismo 6/4/2020 El
Comercio, Peru: "Cientos de trabajadores sanitarios participaron este jueves en
una protesta pacífica bajo el lema “batas blancas por vidas negras”, como
respuesta al asesinato del afroamericano George Floyd a manos de la policía y
para mostrar su repulsa al racismo sistémico, en solidaridad con la oleada de
protestas que se ha extendido por todo Estados Unidos."
La hipocresía de #blacklivesmatter 6/4/2020 Red Afrocubanas: "La hipocresía
de #blacklivesmatter con esto lo único que están logrando es apoyar y darle
rienda a los malandros/ladrones/criminales Andan reidos de ver tanto apoyo del
mundo como el apoyo de las celebridades (cantantes y actores) y muchos más....
lo único que están logrando con ese apoyo es perjudicar la seguridad de todos."
Debate con Sandor Valdes 6/3/2020 Eliécer Avila: "Firma la Petición: FIN
DEL BLOQUEO INTERNO EN CUBA"
Call out claims of colorblindness. 6/3/2020 Corinna Moebius: "The racism in
Miami's Cuban/Latinx community is stomach-turning. Reprehensible. Blatant. It's
not just dog-whistles, it's overt."
Otaola denuncia la penetración del castrochavismo en las “protestas” por la
muerte de George Floyd 6/3/2020 Cubanos por el Mundo: "El presentador
cubano Alexander Otola, denunció la penetración del castrochavismo en las
protestas por George Floyd, rechazando además la satanización a la
administración de Donald Trump con respecto a este caso." [El "castrochavismo"
es un movimiento republicano donde lo que cuenta es la ciudadania, no la raza.]
Ota Ola y George Floyd 5/29/2020 Nicolas Rastafari: "…dice Ota Ola que lo
sucedido a George Floyd no fue racismo y que está más enfurecido por las
protestas que por la muerte del señor. A las 5pm hora de Miami voy a hacer una
directa si facebook me deja."
Videos show Miami Beach arrests of black spring breakers slammed as racist by
NAACP 3/17/2020 NBC: "The Miami-Dade chapter of the NAACP is calling for
the removal of the Miami Beach police chief and city manager in response to
videos showing police interactions with black spring breakers last week. In one
of the viral videos, a Miami Beach police officer appears to grab a young woman
by the throat after she falls onto the street following a collision with an
officer. That video was uploaded to social media and has been viewed more than
390,000 times."
White Nationalists, Alt-Right Personalities Plan Rally on Miami Yacht 9/16/2019 Miami
New Times: "But tickets are being sold on the website 1776.shop, which is run by
Enrique Tarrio, a Miami native who leads the neofascist Proud Boys group."
[Tarrio self identifies as AfroCuban.]
A Cuban-American Is Behind The Hate Group “The Proud Boys” And POC Have
Questions 8/17/2019 We Are Mitu: "The Proud Boys is nationally led by
Afro-Cubano Enrique Tarrio of Miami, and Latinos have something to say to him."
Haitian, Jamaican or American ... If you’re black in Miami, odds are you’re
struggling 2/25/2019 Miami Herald: "A new study sheds light on the yawning
gap in wealth in the Miami area between white households and households of
color. Among non-white groups, it is Miami-area households identifying as black
that continue to suffer most, according to the authors of the study, “The Color
of Wealth in Miami.”"
Roger Stone Admits Extensive Ties to Extremist Group Florida Proud Boys in Court 2/21/2019 Miami
New Times: "In court today, Stone apologized profusely for his actions. Then he
admitted something that most observers had expected for quite a while: He's
working closely with various members of the Florida chapter of the Proud Boys,
the hard-right, pro-Trump, semifascist group with numerous ties to harder-core
white-supremacist organizations. According to multiple reporters in the
courtroom today, Stone has admitted he's coordinating extensively with the
group. Stone even said that Jacob Engels — a notorious alt-right InfoWars
reporter and all but admitted member of the Proud Boys — has access to Stone's
cell phone and social media accounts."
11-year-old arrested after refusing to stand for Pledge of Allegiance 2/17/2019 NY
Post: "The classroom kerfuffle happened when a substitute teacher, Ana Alvarez,
ordered the boy to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. When he told her he
believed the flag was racist and the anthem was offensive, Alvarez asked him
“why if it was so bad here he did not go to another place to live,” the teacher
said in a statement to the school district. The teacher said he replied, “they
brought me here.” Alvarez then told him, “Well you can always go back, because I
came here from Cuba and the day I feel I’m not welcome here anymore I would find
another place to live.”"
How was Miami’s Overtown neighborhood chosen as the place to expand I-95? 1/15/2019 The
New tropic: "“By 1961, Overtown families began receiving surprise letters
telling them they were expected to uproot and relocate from their homes within
six to eight weeks,” Fields said in an email. “No mention was made of any appeal
process, and ‘the rest is history.’” "
Hate Goes Mainstream With the Miami Proud Boys 12/10/2018 Miami New
Times: "This past November 24, Tarrio, a Miami-born first-generation Cuban
immigrant and business owner who has spent almost a year in federal prison,
replaced McInnes as the group's chairman. In his "stepping-down gesture," as
McInnes called it, he downplayed the group's involvement in far-right politics,
saying, "We're not an extremist group, and we don't have ties with white
nationalists." But screenshots of posts shared by Proud Boys in private groups
show there's a good reason that white-nationalist label has been so hard to
shake. And Tarrio has big plans for refocusing their message and using humor to
mainstream the Proud Boys — even running some for office."
Miami GOP Chairman just caught leading Proud Boys in attack on Democratic
campaign office 10/19/2018 The Stern Fact: "Chairman Diaz even told me that
he never heard of the Proud Boys, even though the Miami New Times caught local
GOP Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart posting a photo of himself with one candidate
of the group’s members just two months ago. But the video doesn’t lie, and it
depicts Diaz only a few feet away from Miami Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio
when he yelled: “Open up! It’s some Proud Boys in here.”"
Miami GOP Chairman Nelson Diaz leading Proud Boys hate group in attack on
Democratic campaign office 10/19/2018 YouTube: "The Republican Party
Miami-Dade's County Chairman led an angry mob of partisans with the local leader
of national hate group the Proud Boys in an attack on a Democratic campaign
office the week."
Third police officer sentenced to prison for framing black males 10/19/2018 Nation
of Change: "After pleading guilty to framing innocent black men and punching a
handcuffed suspect in the face, a third Florida police officer was sentenced
Thursday to 27 months in prison for conspiracy to deprive a person of his civil
rights and deprivation of civil rights under color of law. Two other officers
have been sentenced to one year in federal prison, while their former police
chief awaits sentencing next month."
Why Young Men of Color Are Joining White-Supremacist Groups 9/4/2018 Daily
Beast: "Tarrio, who identifies as Afro-Cuban, is president of the Miami chapter
of the Proud Boys, who call themselves “Western chauvinists,” and “regularly
spout white-nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists,”
according to the Southern Poverty Law Center."
Black lawmaker says Miami Democrats have ‘lynched’ him in primary 8/16/2018 Miami
Herald: "Hardemon, in interviews with the Miami Herald, said his party doesn’t
like black people — “especially black men” — and claimed the chairman of the
Miami-Dade Democrats recruited a Haitian-American candidate to boot him from
office. This week, Hardemon went one step further, lobbing a racial accusation
during a meeting of Democratic leaders in Doral. “It’s surprising to be lynched
from the Democratic Party,” Hardemon said from a stage, standing next to
Chairman Juan Cuba."
Miami Congressman Diaz-Balart Posts Photo With Alt-Right "Proud Boy" 8/10/2018 Miami
New Times: "The Proud Boy who met with Diaz-Balart describes himself online as a
military veteran and National Rifle Association "certified pistol instructor."
He's repeatedly taken photographs with Miami-Dade County Republican Party
members and appears to be involved with Carla Spalding's campaign for Florida's
23rd Congressional District, a seat currently occupied by Debbie Wasserman
Schultz. Spalding has been endorsed by Roger Stone and has appeared on InfoWars,
so it's perhaps not surprising that her campaign seems to include a Proud Boy,
as well."
Cops, courts in Miami-Dade harsher on blacks. New study details stark racial
disparities. 7/19/2018 Miami Herald: "No group in Miami-Dade County gets
treated more harshly in the criminal justice system than blacks, according to a
joint study released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union and
University of Miami. Researchers, who analyzed five years of data between 2010
and 2015, found stark differences across the board."
Police chief, officers in Florida town accused of pinning crimes on blacks to
help stats 7/12/2018 Miami Herald: ""If they have burglaries that are open
cases that are not solved yet, if you see anybody black walking through our
streets and they have somewhat of a record, arrest them so we can pin them for
all the burglaries," one cop, Anthony De La Torre, said in an internal probe
ordered in 2014."
A conversation about racism in Miami should include all groups – not just Cubans 6/2/2018 Miami
Herald: "In my life — and in 38 years as a journalist covering every topic in
the book in South Florida — I've witnessed racist and prejudiced words and acts
from members of every group in our community. Yet the flurry of outrage and
calls for conversation seem to happen only when the offender is Cuban or
Cuban-American." [Cuban privilege!]
Latin Americans still think blackface is funny. It isn’t. It’s dehumanizing. 6/1/2018 Miami
Herald: "The recent controversy surrounding the play Tres Viudas en un Crucero —
“Three Widows on a Cruise” — featuring a Cuban-American actress in blackface,
reveals Miami’s long-standing history of bigotry and is a consequence of the
silence surrounding the issue."
Miami's 'Cuban Cubicle' Creates Isolation That Fosters Racism – And Blackface 5/30/2018 WLRN: "In
2018 some if not much of Miami’s Cuban community still seems to think blackface
is benign, good-natured humor. “Tres Viudas” has played to sold-out crowds since
opening in January, and a glowing review in El Nuevo Herald called the blackface
performance “masterful.” Few in the audiences, young or old, were bothered by
it. And that raises concerns not just about Latinos’ denial of racism in their
midst. It raises red flags – much as Barr’s tweet did – about the sort of
cultural isolation that often fosters that denial."
Afro-Latinos Say Miami Blackface Play Is Part Of Bigger Problem With Racism In
Latino Communities 5/29/2018 WLRN: "And supporters of the play kept telling
her this was tradition, but Afro-Latinos say this is bigger than a play. For
them, it's part of larger problem in Latino communities, where blackness is
demonized and deemed inferior through art, entertainment and everyday
conversations."
This Miami parody features an actress in blackface and the audience 'loves it' 5/19/2018 Miami
Herald: "A popular Spanish-language theater near Miami’s Little Havana
neighborhood has been entertaining its audiences for months with a parody that
would spur outrage in many other cities. One of the leading actors in the play
performs in blackface. The response from most of this audience: applause and
laughter. “It has been a hit and no one has complained ... on the contrary, she
is one of the favorites," said Marisol Correa, who oversees the venue where the
play is showing. “The character is typical of the Cuban theater, the negrito
cubano, but the person is never discriminated.”"
Manolín: "Vivimos en EE.UU. y le estamos muy agradecidos pero no hay por qué
callar" 2/16/2018 Cibercuba: "Manolín, El médico de la salsa, ha publicado
un texto en su perfil de Facebook a propósito del tiroteo en una escuela
secundaria de Broward, el pasado 14 de febrero, en el que murieron 17 personas y
otras 15 resultaron heridas. Más que aludir directamente a la tragedia, el
músico cubano ha ido a la que considera la causa principal, el gran problema de
origen: la venta de armas."
Miami Latinos Have Avoided Electing African American County Mayors, But That
Could Finally Change 1/29/2018 Remezcla: "In 1983, Puerto Rican Miami Mayor
Maurice Ferrer won his sixth consecutive two-year term against Cuban-born Xavier
Suarez after a campaign that began to uncover the growing tensions between
Miami’s Cuban majority and the Black minority. Many Black voters campaigned for
Ferrer, resentful of the “Cuban takeover” of the city. Suarez’s supporters, in
turn, were found holding signs that simply urged, “Cubans, vote Cuban.” As Luke
wrote, only one Black county mayoral candidate has gotten a close chance at the
seat: Arthur Teele, Jr. in 1995. Teele won a majority of the Black vote, but
barely gained any Latino neighborhoods, while his opponent, Cuban born Alex
Penelas, garnered 90 percent of the Latino vote come election day."
Hispanic Voters Will Never Elect a Black Miami-Dade County Mayor 1/22/2018 Miami
New Times: "When he was seeking reelection in 2012, Gimenez showed up at every
rally and black church to drum up endorsements. Though the black vote can push a
candidate over the top in a countywide election, we somehow always select the
best Cuban candidate. And once the Cuban candidate wins, he tosses the
African-American community into the garbage. All we get in return is a giant
F-you."
Hola! Ota-Ola con Alexander Otaola (Programa 31 oct 2017) 10/31/2017 Alex
Otaola: sobre Chocolate, Otaola se pone negrito.
How a Crew of Hardliners Hijacked Donald Trump’s Cuba Policy 6/16/2017 Mother
Jones: "Rubio had at least one ally inside the bureaucracy: Mauricio
Claver-Carone, who is arguably the most vocal pro-embargo activist and lobbyist
in Washington, was working on the inside. A onetime Rubio adviser, Claver-Carone
has spent most of his adult life blasting the Castro regime for its human rights
abuses and fighting any effort to open diplomatic relations between the United
States and Cuba. As the head of the US-Cuba Democracy Political Action
Committee, he lobbied to help defeat several measures in 2005 to permit more
humanitarian travel to Cuba and allow toothpaste and soap to be included in gift
packages sent to the country."
MIAMI CUBANS 4 TRUMP AND THE BATTLE FOR THE NATION. 11/7/2016 Cuba
Counterpoint: "The exilio histórico’ support for Trump was a given. From Spanish
talk radio, to public manifestos (like that of the 92-year old soap opera writer
Delia Fiallo making the case that Clinton wants to impose a Soviet-type regime,
Obamacare being exhibit #1), to demonstrations in front of the iconic Versailles
Restaurant in Calle Ocho, the aging Cuban exiles have made the case for Trump on
the basis of U.S. Cuba policy and historic resentment against the Democratic
Party."
LIBERTY SQUARE: Power, History, & Race in Miami 10/25/2016 Liberty Square
Rising, YouTube: "On January 29, 2015, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez
announced that Liberty Square, one of the country’s oldest public housing
developments would be “razed and redeveloped.” Built in 1937 during the New Deal
and under Jim Crow, the development was the first segregated public housing in
the United States, built to house black residents of Miami moving out of the
crowded black community in downtown Miami know as Colored Town (now called
Overtown)."
In 'Moonlight,' Growing Up Black, Gay And Poor In 1980s Miami 10/18/2016 NPR: "And
he was struck by the ways in which the men in the story interact, "the
gentleness and the kindness of the character Juan. And knowing that he was based
on something in reality," says Jenkins. "When I jogged my memory, I thought back
on growing up in the village, there were these men who would every now and then
just go out of their way to be like, naw, naw, naw, don't do that. Leave that
guy alone, or this or that. The men give each other dap, you know?"
El racismo que no se ve 10/6/2016 Cubanet: "El pasado domingo 2 de octubre,
cuando asistí a la presentación en el Art Emporium de Miami del libro La huella
africana en Cuba, de Juan Antonio Alvarado, y los números 6, 7 y 8 de la revista
Identidades, pude apreciar que todavía para los cubanos, especialmente los
cubanos blancos o que dicen serlo, sigue siendo un tema incómodo el de la
discriminación racial."
Miami-Set ‘Moonlight’ is a Heartwrenching Exploration of Gay Black Masculinity
With Echoes of Cuba 9/30/2016 Remezcla: "As he teaches Little about life,
we learn that Juan is of Cuban descent – an Afro-Cuban character at the heart of
a film concerned with what it means to a black man.'
Casi 60 arrestos en el primer día del festival urbano de Miami Beach 5/29/2016 Cibercuba: "No
obstante, la Policía de Miami Beach percibe que hasta el momento esta fiesta
espontánea que se inició el viernes y atrae a miles de personas a las calles de
Miami Beach, en su mayoría afroamericanos, transcurre con normalidad y sin
mayores incidentes."
The McDuffie Riots 5/11/2016 Miami Times: "“If the jury was half Black and
half white would there have been a riot?” Dunn asked the room at HistoryMiami
museum last week. “It was the most difficult thing I have seen in 75 years. It
was worse than the 1926 hurricane. The hurricane damaged property. This damaged
souls.”"
Florida politicians protect special status for Cubans 10/1/2015 Sun
Sentinel: "Their amendment to the 1980 Refugee Education Assistance Act also
included a key change: Cubans and Haitians were deemed a special category of
“entrants.” They would be entitled to the same federal assistance as immigrants
granted refuge and asylum as victims of political persecution. Haitians had
difficulty tapping that assistance because they, like most other immigrants,
were routinely turned away at sea or deported if they made it to the U.S.
without permission. Cubans, on the other hand, had an open door as presumed
refugees from communism."
THE BROWNFACE OF LATINIDAD IN CUBAN MIAMI 7/13/2015 Cuba
Counterpoints: "More often, they prefer to identify themselves according to
their nationality, particularly given the national basis of social networks and
social capital –a phenomenon recently identified by the Pew Research Center. In
this double context: —a multicultural mosaic of nationalities, and a claim to
whiteness, —South Florida Cubans and South Americans reject the renditions of
Latinidad, often generated by Puerto Ricans and Chicanos, that assign “color” to
Latinos. The 20th century struggles of more established groups are alien to
these so-called Latinos in South Florida. Dominicans in Miami, by and large, are
no exception, identifying mostly as white and middle class. Those in the
Northeast, however, have not hesitated to partake of the Latinidad defined by
Puerto Ricans and Mexicans. And here is where Yeyo Vargas comes in. Cubans
“brown” or “darken” Dominicans only to situate them in high office, close to
President Obama, like many Dominicans himself a black man of mixed heritage. In
this context, blackface and brownface mark not only a distance from blackness,
but, most importantly, a distance from Latinidad and its avenues for upward
mobility and access to power that remain alien to working class Cubans."
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen slams Jay-Z, Beyonce 4/9/2013 Politico: "On Monday,
Ros-Lehtinen and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) sent a letter to the U.S.
Treasury Department, asking for more information about the trip. Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Fla.) also wants the White House to provide more answers."
Parsing the Memorial Day shooting in South Beach 6/5/2011 Beached
Miami: "They do not report where they found the gun — on the “floorboard behind
driver’s seat,” according to David Smiley, the Herald reporter covering the
story — until Saturday afternoon. The delay here is odd since a lot of people
immediately speculated that the police had fired more than 100 rounds at an
unarmed black man, and this speculation reportedly worried the Head Honcho. In
one of his articles, Smiley said Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega was
“concerned about the publicity surrounding the shooting” and that he “called the
gun’s discovery ‘great news.’”
Miami's Continuing Color Problem 12/14/2010 The Root: "There were too many
police shootings of unarmed black men in Miami for my taste, and in the prior
decade, one of the most notorious police shootings had led to violent riots.
There was not a visible black middle-class community, although middle-class
blacks were scattered about, but there were plenty of visibly poor and badly
deteriorated black neighborhoods. African Americans were mostly politically
marginalized and had even less economic power. Cuban Americans -- many of them
fair-skinned "white" conservative Republicans, uninterested in power sharing --
were politically ascendant. (Afro-Cubans and other Afro-Latinos, for the most
part, blended into the African-American community.) Non-Hispanic white residents
were fleeing Dade County and heading to whiter suburbs in northern counties."
Only in Miami: Omara Portuondo Compared to the Ku Klux Klan 2/13/2010 Cuba
Now: 'It seems that Mr. Prieres’ “school of thinking” does not admit that a
Cuban figure as Omara Portuondo can freely sing in the United States. I guess
that Mr. Prieres’ “environment” excludes the over 11 million Cubans living on
the island. It seems to be an institution of poor education and thinking.
According to Miami New Times magazine, the organization Vigilia Mambisa declared
that Omara “is accomplice of the regime,” and anti-Cuban activist Emilio
Izquierdo Jr. made this incredible comparison: “Brinign Omara Portuondo to Miami
is like taking the Ku Klux Klan to Liberty City”. Perhaps Izquierdo does not
know, or means nothing for him, but the Ku Klux Klan is a racist, terrorist
organization founded in the US to kill, torture, or intimidate black, Jewish or
other groups, including Catholics, peace activists, and unionists. Omara
Portuondo is a Cuban woman of mixed race with unique voice and international
prestige resulting from her huge talent. Comparing her to the Ku Klux Klan is
like comparing Luis Posada Carriles to Bola de Nieve."
Una Batalla Mundial de Vida o Muerte. Primera Parte 12/25/2009 AfroCubaWeb: "Prevalecia
en Miami un racismo furibundo donde acunaron el termino despectivo Marielitos,
lo cual era sinonimo con analfabeto, negro, ladron, asesino, drogadicto,
prostituta y/o criminal. En infinidad de articulos periodisticos y en programas
radiales AM de microfonos abiertos de Miami decian sin inmutarse, “Esta gente no
parecen ser siquiera Cubanos”, lo que significaba que la percepcion generalizada
que fue creado a partir del ano 1959, en el cual los Cubanos se describrieron
como un pais exclusivamente blanco, rico. de casatenientes residiendo en
mansiones con cadillacs, viviendas en la playa, catolicos temerosos de Dios, sin
una gota de sangre negra en sus venas y asociando la religion Afro-Cubana con el
Voodoo de Haiti."
A Worldwide Battle of Life and Death. Part I 12/25/2009 AfroCubaWeb: "Let
me help readers of this very complex issue identify all parties involved, by
pointing an accusing finger at everyone whose voluntary or involuntary actions
may have contributed to bringing us to this extremely dangerous juncture. (a)
The Cuban Solidarity Movement in the US, (b) the United States Government, (c)
anti-Cuba Blacks groups around the world and (d) the Cuban Government, who
stands violently accused of blatant racism in Cuba as denounced in Acting On Our
Conscience. (a) The Cuban Solidarity Movement in the United States is primarily
White and they have strongly supported the Cuban Government based mostly on
events which have taken place since 1959, its impressive social programs,
international solidarity, health and education development, but to a great
extent, with a limited awareness of the 500 years' legacy of slavery, racism,
segregation and inequalities in Cuba."
Apartheid protesters got it right 9/20/2009 Miami Herald: [Another fine
example of the Miami Mafia debasing imagery from the Black struggle.]
Black Vs. White - Miami Remains The Same 5/27/2009 Miami New Times: "As
much as I hate it when politicians play the race card when they are facing
possible criminal charges, I can't just dismiss it either in the case of
Spence-Jones. After all, Sarnoff is the city's only Anglo commissioner and
Arriola is one of the most prominent Anglo Cuban Americans in Miami. Together
they initiated a criminal probe into the city's only black, and only female,
commissioner."
Miami Mayor to Apologize for 'Mandela Moment' 7/12/2003 Fox
News: "Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas (search) said Monday he would make an
official apology to former South African president Nelson Mandela (search) next
week. "If Mandela were in Miami today, I think he would receive an official
welcome." Penelas said. Thirteen years ago, that was not the case. In June 1990,
Miami's politically powerful Cuban exile community protested a visit by Mandela,
newly released from a South African prison, for his praise of Fidel Castro
(search), arch-enemy of Cuban exiles but friend of the anti-apartheid movement.
Despite pleas by local African-American leaders, the cities of Miami and Miami
Beach, along with Miami-Dade Country, refused to recognize Mandela when he
visited the area for a labor conference. The Miami City Commission rescinded a
proclamation honoring Mandela. Tourists angry at the Mandela snub launched a
boycott that cost the city $25 million in lost revenue. Business leaders helped
end the boycott in 1993, but tensions continued in the 1990s between blacks and
Cubans after several incidents where Miami police roughed up Haitians."
Trial to begin for 11 Miami officers 1/6/2003 Boston Globe: "Based on
information from two retired officers who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in
September 2001, 11 other officers were indicted on federal corruption charges
alleging coverups in four police shootings in which three men were killed… ''The
history of Miami has been characterized by ugly police-community relations,''
said Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of
Florida. ''There is a loss of confidence, if not outright hostility, by the
minority community because of the great number of shootings of typically unarmed
black young men.'' …The four Miami shootings involved the killings of three
black men. A fourth man was wounded, and another man involved in the shooting
was not harmed."
The attempt to divide Cuba along racial lines, II 8/9/2001 AfroCubaWeb: "Since
the early '90s, cubanologists from different universities, social workers and
even some misguided or ill informed Afro Americans coming out of the civil
rights movement unleashed a flood of newspapers articles, seminars, conferences,
web sites, books, radio talk shows all of which became part of a well concerted
and heavily funded project to divide Cubans along race lines. These initial
concerns with the wellbeing of the Afro Cuba community was welcome by most,
until it became clear that these entities were all advocating similar divisive
and confrontational policies towards the Cuban Government. Most of these groups
used similar terminology, format and even words that are not part of the Cuban
lexicon, which clearly indicates the existence of a command and control center
outside of the Cuban community."
The attempt to divide Cuba on racial lines 7/9/2001 AfroCubaWeb: "These
initial concerns with the wellbeing of the Afro Cuba community was welcome by
most, until it became clear that these entities were all advocating similar
divisive and confrontational policies towards the Cuban Government. Most of
these groups used similar terminology, format and even words that are not part
of the Cuban lexicon, which clearly indicates the existence of a command and
control center outside of the Cuban community. A great effort was placed on the
creation of Independent Libraries, Independent Journalists, Independent Women,
Children and Elderly Association, Independent Farmers and even Independent
Unions in Cuba, all of this being advocated by people with the lowest union
membership in the world. Outside of Cuba, a series of Afro-Cuban "Think-Tank"
charged with creating and disseminating news, rumors, distortions, or elevating
to "Sainthood" a few salaried Afro-Cuban "Dissidents" that they have created in
Cuba, is in fact their most cherished portion of the puzzle, because it creates
for them an aura of credibility."
Stealing my identity on AfroCubaWeb: the ultra right in blackface 10/1/2000 AfroCubaWeb: "And
this is the same media in which they constantly complain how Cuba have
"Darkened" and how they will have to "Bleach" the country as soon as it is
"Free""
listen to a panel discussion about race in Miami and Cuba 6/1/2000 NYT
Archive: "lick the link below to listen to a panel discussion about race in
Miami and Cuba as related to Mirta Ojito's article, "Best of Friends, Worlds
Apart." The conversation ranges from anecdotes about discrimination in Miami to
proposals on improving the strength of the Cuban community in an effort to
combat racism in the city."
"Why don't African Americans speak out against Castro's abuses": Upper Class,
get real! 3/25/2000 AfroCubaWeb: "The insatiable hatred that Myrian Marquez
and hundreds of other ultra-right-wing Cubans profess for their country of birth
is expressed through their daily bilious exudate geared to demonize, denigrate,
and disparage every thing originating in Cuba. Her recent article (1) , "Why
don't African Americans speak out against Castro's abuses" typifies her
impotence towards people of African descent. Having failed in their 40 year old
attempt to overthrow the Cuban Government through assasination attempts,
conspiracies, invasions, economical and bacteriological warfare, bombings,
sabotage, and the longest and most virulent embargo in human history, they are
now resorting to their last hope, a carefully structured and well financed
campaign, designed to promote and stir up racial hatred in Cuba, hoping to
re-enact the Kosovo or West Bank experience."
Crooks, torturers, pseudo-politicians, opportunists, and hired killers line up
against Los Van Van. 10/6/1999 AfroCubaWeb: "One of them, Agustin Tamargo
from Radio Mambi, went as far as openly requesting a THREE DAYS LICENSE - when
the Castro Regime falls - to dole out retribution to all of those who stayed in
Cuba and supported that hated regime. This very disturbing statement is
especially frightening to the AfroCuban community, who, because of its
non-migratory tendency and the intense emigration of Cubans of Hispanic ancestry
to the United States have seen Cuba become a predominantly Black country. Are Mr
Tamargo and his cohorts planning to re-enact the massacre of 1912 and the Ladder
Conspiracy in Cuba or the Rosewood massacre in Gainesville, Florida?"
Un hito en la lucha contra el racismo 11/12/1998 AfroCubaWeb: "Un hecho sin
precedentes en la historia de Miami ocurrió el pasado 31 de octubre con la
celebración de la conferencia Miami-USA/Cuba, Una Nueva Visión, organizada por
el Centro de Política Internacional… Hago por tanto un sincero y crucial llamado
a todos mis hermanos de raza, todos víctimas de ese engendro, para que
analicemos nuestra historia, establezcamos quiénes, cuándo y por qué se cometió
aquel holocausto y luego dediquemos lo mejor de nuestros esfuerzos --tal cual
realizan españoles, árabes, judíos, chinos, etc.--, a contribuir a mitigar el
dolor de nuestros hermanos en Cuba, a crear mecanismos que coadyuven a su
continuo desarrollo, a demostrarles que no han sido olvidados ni están solos y
evitar sobre todo que el dolor personal debido a una injusticia real o
imaginaria, nos lleve a ignorar el reto de millones de nuestros hermanos,
asociándonos indirectamente con nuestros verdugos. Nadie tendrá que
aleccionarnos en las actuales circunstancias. Maceo, Guillermón, Quintín,
Mariana, etc., nos trazaron el camino a seguir. Los historiadores disponen del
rasero por el cual seremos juzgados."
A Cuba in Diaz Balart's Image or that of Today's Miami 7/15/1998 Alborada/AfroCubaWeb: "For
these and so many other reasons, none of us had to flock to South Africa to see
what Apartheid was all about. We were born, lived and many died in our own
Soweto! That's why it is so painful to us when we hear the likes of Diaz-Balart
attempting to apply the content of the Human Rights Declaration to their narrow
and selfish, self serving interest. Where were these demagogues, hypocrites and
frequently active perpetrators of the terrible conditions previously described
when young people were beaten, tortured, disappeared or murdered, and left by
the side of the roads to rot by the military structure that they helped put in
place to protect their illegal loot, stolen public funds, or immoral business
practices? For us to have a clear picture about the real intentions and the
interests that these individuals stand for, suffice to say that Diaz-Balart's
father was one of the highest ranking government official in the Batista regime
while all of the above was happening, and today, both his sons, one as a State
and the other as a U.S. Representative, both represent Miami, which has become
one of the most politically corrupt, segregated, bankrupt, drug ravaged
community in the nation."
Miami Police Officer Is Acquitted In Racially Charged Slaying Case 5/29/1993 NYT: "In
a decision met with anger and dismay among blacks in Miami, a Hispanic police
officer who was convicted there in 1989 on two counts of manslaughter in the
shooting deaths of two young black men was acquitted today in a second trial on
the same charges. William Lozano, the 33-year-old, Colombian-born police officer
who has been the focal point of the most racially charged case in Florida in the
last decade, threw his arms up in joy and embraced his lawyers when the verdict
was announced late this afternoon. But relatives of the men he killed broke into
tears and left the courtroom of Judge W. Thomas Spencer, saying they were at a
loss to explain the decision of the six-member jury."
Miami Journal; Boycott Over Visit Of Mandela Lives On 7/13/1991 NYT: "The
City Commission rescinded a proclamation welcoming Mr. Mandela, and Mayor Xavier
Suarez and four other mayors from the region openly criticized Mr. Mandela for
not denouncing human rights violations in Cuba. Miami's blacks, who make up
about 21 percent of the city's 359,000 residents, took that as a snub of royal
proportions, an insult added to decades of economic, social and political
injury. In response, on July 17, 1990, a small group of the city's black leaders
began an economic boycott against the tourism industry, arguably the region's
most important business. Now almost a year old, the boycott continues, and
organizers recently declared their intention to turn up the heat a bit by
sending out videotaped messages highly critical of Miami to organizations around
the country likely to hold conventions or refer people to the area. The videos
will urge them to keep their convention and vacation business away. Giant cruise
ships still glide silently through Biscayne Bay and rental cars still seem to
take up more than two-thirds of every parking lot, but the boycott has taken its
toll. A spokesman for the boycott group, H. T. Smith, a lawyer, estimated that
the campaign has cost the area $27 million in convention business. Officials
from the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau estimate that of more than
$200 million in convention business annually, about 19 conventions or meetings
worth about $8 million have been canceled." [The real number was likely far
higher.]
On the Edge: Blacks and Hispanics in Metropolitan Miami since 1959 7/15/1990 Florida
Historical Quarterly: "On Monday, January 16, 1989, hundreds of blacks in Miami
took to the streets in angry rage for the fourth time in the 1980s. Over several
days, they burned cars and buildings, looted stores, pelted passers-by with
rocks and bottles, and faced off with riot police in Overtown and Liberty City,
Miami's two major black communities. The incident that touched off this new
expression of black anger was sadly familiar. A Miami policeman had shot and
killed a black man fleeing a traffic infraction on a motorcycle, while a second
black man, a passenger on the motorcycle, was thrown from the vehicle and also
killed."
Miami Racial Tensions Fester 12/31/1982 WaPo: ""Leave these Latins get out
of here, right now," shouted a local black leader, the Rev. Jonathan Rolle, in a
television interview Wednesday night. "The Latin police, they just ride around
in their cars, and they never get out," he said today in a telephone
conversation. ". . . . The Latins are the ones who are killing the blacks."
Archie Hardwick of the James E. Scott Community Association charged that the
federal government, in its eagerness to help emigrants from Fidel Castro's Cuba,
funneled money and energy into resettlement efforts that shortchanged other,
black-oriented programs then getting under way in the Great Society years."
Miami’s Forgotten Cubans by Alan A. Aja
The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami, Monika Goslina
Antiracism in Miami
Marco Rubio called them ‘extremists.’ They’re really Miami rappers. They want a retraction. 6/10/2020 Miami Herald: "When cops arrested Marco Antonio Lopez on allegations that he vandalized patrol cars during a protest in downtown Miami, the arrest report noted he was part of a group known as the “Southern Slaves,” which “actively recruits people to violently protest the government.” That drew the attention of U.S. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who tweeted the arrest was evidence of “extremist groups” organizing to cause mayhem at protests over the death of George Floyd and police brutality. But the Southern Slaves aren’t an extremist group. And they are not monitored by the FBI or listed by hate-group trackers like the Anti-Defamation League or the Southern Poverty Law Center. They’re a group of aspiring hip-hop musicians from Miami’s Flagami neighborhood, buddies uploading their music online, doing shows at open-mic nights and spreading a message of what they consider government overreach. “We’re not terrorists. We love America. What we don’t love is systematic oppression and police brutality,” said Alonzo Martinez, 23, whose stage name is “Zo The Atlantean.”"
Estados Unidos: personal médico protesta en Miami contra el racismo 6/4/2020 El Comercio, Peru: "Cientos de trabajadores sanitarios participaron este jueves en una protesta pacífica bajo el lema “batas blancas por vidas negras”, como respuesta al asesinato del afroamericano George Floyd a manos de la policía y para mostrar su repulsa al racismo sistémico, en solidaridad con la oleada de protestas que se ha extendido por todo Estados Unidos."
Call out claims of colorblindness. 6/3/2020 Corinna Moebius: "There are Facebook groups of Miami Cubans/Latinx that grow every single day, where members are calling out white supremacy and anti-blackness. Afro-Latinos are forming groups and building solidarity across local and national borders. Scholars like Monika Gosin, Alan Aja, Danielle Pilar Clealand, Yesenia Selier, Chanelle Rose, Paul Ortiz, Judith Williams and others have written about or are currently researching and writing about Latinx white supremacy and racism in Miami. These are all acts of resistance. We will not be silenced."
Miami Latinos Have Avoided Electing African American County Mayors, But That Could Finally Change 1/29/2018 Remezcla: "In 1983, Puerto Rican Miami Mayor Maurice Ferrer won his sixth consecutive two-year term against Cuban-born Xavier Suarez after a campaign that began to uncover the growing tensions between Miami’s Cuban majority and the Black minority. Many Black voters campaigned for Ferrer, resentful of the “Cuban takeover” of the city. Suarez’s supporters, in turn, were found holding signs that simply urged, “Cubans, vote Cuban.” As Luke wrote, only one Black county mayoral candidate has gotten a close chance at the seat: Arthur Teele, Jr. in 1995. Teele won a majority of the Black vote, but barely gained any Latino neighborhoods, while his opponent, Cuban born Alex Penelas, garnered 90 percent of the Latino vote come election day."
White Supremacist Miami Media
tunein.com/radio/Radio-Mambi-710-s41879/
www.iheart.com/live/radio-mambi-710-am-5175/
www.univision.com/radio/miami-waqi-am
www.univision.com/radio/miami-wqba-am
White Supremacists Miami Groups
Law Abiding Citizens’ Coalition
Black Groups aligned with the Cuban Plantocracy
Albuquerque sobre Ferguson 6/6/2020 Un Nuevo Dia: Esta video del periodo de Ferguson unos años atras muestra una reaccion que probablemente sigue hoy en dia en contra a los activistas afro. Andrés Alburquerque es presidente del Afro Cuban Forum en Miami.
Movimiento San Isidro - San Isidro Mouvement
Anti-racist groups in Miami
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