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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."
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”."
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."
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."
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. "
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”."
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.”"
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."
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."
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."
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.”"
Analisis: El racismo en Miami ante acusaciones de periodista Mario Vallejo 6/10/2020 Noticias
Generacion News
(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."
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."
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: "The racism in
Miami's Cuban/Latinx community is stomach-turning. Reprehensible. Blatant. It's
not just dog-whistles, it's overt."
Debate con Sandor Valdes 6/3/2020 Eliécer
Avila: "Firma la Petición: FIN DEL BLOQUEO INTERNO EN CUBA"
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.]
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.”"
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."
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."
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."
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!]
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?"
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."
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."
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."
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."
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.]
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."
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."
Miami’s Forgotten Cubans by Alan A. Aja
The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in
Multicultural Miami, Monika Goslina
White Supremacist Miami Media
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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 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.
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