ALBERTO JONES: Mimetism, New Weapon within Cuba Hate Industry

[magbana]

There is an article after this about the guy that Alberto is talking about

Mimetism, New Weapon withing the Cuba Hate Industry
Posted by: "[e-mail]" [e-mail]
Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:41 pm (PDT)


Mimetism, New Weapon within the Cuba Hate Industry
Alberto N. Jones
June 18, 2009

At this late stage of the fifty year old US-CUBA political strife, reasonable individuals would assume that those charged with inflicting pain, suffering and destruction on the Cuban people, would have concluded that their despicable task have come to an end, that the game is over, and as good sportsmen, they would retreat to their burrows and accept defeat with dignity.

Doing what is right would have earned these Cuba-haters at least a few milligrams of sympathy, but it is now clear, that such principles are not part of their genetic make-up nor their life values.

Today, we were introduced to Dr. Jose Azel’s treatise. “Fidel Plays the Race Card“, Cuba Transition Project 6/16/09 [e-mail] in which his mimetic, new found love for Afro-Cubans living in Cuba without family members overseas sending remittances, broke his heart. He is also profoundly offended by Castro casting himself once again as Robin Hood, with sinister overtones.

What this opportunist fail to include in his article, is that he is part of this multi-pronged effort to incite racial division, strife and a potentially dangerous racial confrontation without lines of demarcation, in such a highly mixed society.

Like many others bent on squeezing out every penny out of US-AID, CIA and front foundations willing to pump millions of dollars into every fake organization purporting to be fighting20the Cuban government, they are required to present a bio, a body of dirty work against Cuba to support their job application and approval.

Clever, educated and able to use some extra cash, why should Dr. Azel not build up his standing among his piers and future employers, by regularly compiling and publishing tendentious fact sheets as others do?

Key in this chain of command is Mr. Frank Calzon, who has not being indicted as yet, notwithstanding his closest aid, Felix Sixto sits in prison for the next six years, for depleting and pocketing nearly half a million dollars earmarked for their “Freedom Fighters” in Cuba.

Still, the most disgraceful trait of this band of opportunists, is their shameless attempt to exploit real, unresolved problems that seriously affect the wellbeing of tens of thousands of Afro-Cubans, by pretending to be their benefactors, when most who are familiar with our convulsive history since our forceful arrival on these shores, are acutely aware of who our real tormentors are.

Beautifully laid out, are Dr. Azel’s bio-statistics of the Cuban government breakdown, is sublimely presented to draw a parallel with the racist, apartheid South Africa government, which by the way, most of them wholeheartedly supported and many fought alongside their defense forces.

Pitifully invoking the name of their newly coined poster boy, Dr. Elias Biscet and proudly reminding us of his Presidential Medal of Freedom, I wonder, as so many other Cuban dissidents who decided after time to set up shop in south Florida, if Dr. Biscet will be a welcome guest in his neighborhood, his home or as other Afro-Cubans, he will be confined and forced to find refuge in Allapath, Overtown, Parramore, Cabrina Greens or any of the hundreds of Ghettos reserved for Blacks and other minorities across the United States?

Has Dr Azel evolved at such an astronomic speed, that he no longer thinks and acts like his proud ancestors, who brag of having kept their puppet President Fulgencio Batista out of their exclusive Havana Yacht Club, Nat King Cole forced to use the kitchen door at the Hotel Nacional to perform, or when the Kasalta restaurant marked the border, beyond which, Afro-Cubans could not go after dark, without being escorted out Miramar by their private security guards?

Can any of these south Floridian, right-wing Cuban-Americans, suddenly enamored with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and staunch supporters of the Civil Rights Movement, present any document, pictures, newspaper articles or oral history, demonstrating that any one of them supported or was ever near any of these history changing developments in the early 60’s, when they enjoyed privileges denied to all blacks in the United States?

Although Cuban-Americans since the early 60's had wide access to radio and print media in the US, never, did anyone of these upper class, rich, powerful individuals, with ample access to the highest level of the US government, ever uttered a word on behalf of blacks, whose flesh was ripped apart by attack dogs, lynched by supremacists, incarcerated in mass and murdered with impunity.

Thanks, but no Thanks, is all we can say to Dr. Azel and thousands like him, who are skillfully resorting to mimetic tactics, trying to inflame our sentiments, fight the Cuban government and hand them in a silver platter, a country they have proven to be genetically unfit to fight for by themselves.

CTP/Univ. of Miami: Fidel Plays the Race Card
Posted by: "Walter Lippmann" [e-mail] walterlx
Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:41 pm (PDT)


(As we've mentioned previously, the election of
Barack Obama as President of the United States
has brought forth a new focus on racial issues
and problems which the propagandists in the US
hope to use in a new format of attacks on Cuba.)
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An Information Service of the
Cuba Transition Project
Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies
University of Miami

Issue 108

June 16, 2009

José Azel*

Fidel Plays the Race Card

Following his diplomatic overture to the Cuban government, President
Barack Obama, in his Port of Spain press conference, indicated that
he now expected the Castro government to respond in kind, and even
suggested how they could do so: "There are some things that the Cuban
government could do. They could release political prisoners. They
could reduce charges on remittances to match up with the policies
that we have put in place to allow Cuban-American families to send
remittances. It turns out that Cuba charges an awful lot, they take a
lot off the top." The President's reference is to the 20% surcharge
fee that Cuba imposes on remittances sent by Cubans in the United
States to their family members on the island.

In his response to President Obama's suggestion, Fidel Castro has
sought to justify the onerous fees as his latest version of income
redistribution claiming that: "Not all Cubans have family members
overseas that send remittances. To redistribute a relatively small
portion to benefit those most in need of food, medicines and other
goods is absolutely just."

In the context of Fidel Castro's demagoguery, his response would not
be particularly significant except for the fact that it is a thinly
veiled effort to play the Cuban race card by pitting those that
receive overseas remittances against those that do not. He is once
again casting himself as Cuba's Robin Hood, this time with sinister
racial overtones.

Today, over 60% of Cuba's population is black or mulatto and few have
family members overseas. On the other hand, the vast majority of
Cuban exiles are white. The natural consequence is that most Cubans
receiving remittances from family members in the United States are
also white. For years this condition has contributed to tensions in
the island between those receiving remittances, and thus able to
purchase more goods, and those that do not receive remittances.

An unintended consequence of predominantly white Cuban-American
travel to the island, and remittances to and from an overwhelmingly
white segment of the population will be to exacerbate the racial
economic divide in Cuba. By playing the race card as he has, Fidel
Castro seeks to mitigate the potentially destabilizing effect on his
regime of the new U.S. travel policy. He has justified his tax on
remittances as a means of providing for those Cubans (mostly black)
that do not receive remittances from overseas. This politically
astute rationalization will play nicely to his various international
constituencies. It is also a cynical and hypocritical effort to
dichotomize and co-opt the Cuban population along racial-economic
lines.

Unnoticed are the facts that in Castro's racist regime only 8% of the
Council of Ministers (President and Cabinet Members), are
Afro-Cubans; Black representation in the senior leadership
(Politburo) of the Communist Party is only 17%, and even lower (4%)
in the Executive Committee (Secretariat) of the Communist Party.
Black and dark-skinned multiracial Cubans make up nearly 70% of the
state-run labor force, and yet they hold only 5% of the most
desirable jobs in Cuba's hospitality industry catering to
international tourists.

The irony is that Cuban demographics suggest that if free and fair
elections were held in Cuba, the island's democratically elected
leader would be Afro-Cuban; hopefully someone with the character and
courage of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, who in 2007 was presented, in
absentia, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation's
highest civil award, and is currently wasting away in Castro's
prisons. Afro-Cubans do not need Fidel or Raul Castro as their
protectors or tax collectors. What all Cubans need is the opportunity
to elect their next leader- in all likelihood an Afro-Cuban- in a
democratic process.

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*José Azel is a senior research associate at the Institute for Cuban
and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami. Dr. Azel was an
adjunct professor of international business at the School of Business
Administration, University of Miami. He holds undergraduate and
master's degrees in business administration and a Ph. D. in
international affairs from the University of Miami.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Beautiful work from Alberto Jones. I've seen these pathetic asses try this angle before, too!

It always seemed so comical, since everyone knows you will NEVER find a group of more vicious racists anywhere than the original exiles.

Beautiful, pointed writing from Dr. Jones.

Thanks.