{"id":303490,"date":"2021-07-20T01:09:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T22:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nikole-hannah-jones-is-as-wrong-about-cuba-as-she-is-about-american-history\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T01:09:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T22:09:19","slug":"nikole-hannah-jones-is-as-wrong-about-cuba-as-she-is-about-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nikole-hannah-jones-is-as-wrong-about-cuba-as-she-is-about-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nikole Hannah-Jones is as wrong about Cuba as she is about American history"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Nikole Hannah-Jones is as wrong about Cuba as she is about American history<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Except for conservative outlets, the press has effectively minimized the news<\/a> that the Black Lives Matter organization has come to the support of Cuba\u2019s communist regime precisely at the time it is cracking down on thousands demanding its ouster. Such suppression of news cannot be good for a democracy that, more than ever, needs to know the truth about BLM.<\/p>\n

BLM\u2019s loyalty to Cuba\u2019s communist regime betrays its dogmatic attachment to communism and disdain for actual black lives. Since the start of the Revolution, Cuba has been run by a clique of white men descended from Europeans (the Castro family, or puppet figleaf presidents such as Osvaldo Dorticos in the 1960s and today\u2019s Miguel Diaz Canel).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, by the look of the videos we see, the vast majority of the brave demonstrators who\u2019ve taken to the streets are black or mixed race. That would reflect the demographics of the country, despite the fact that the communist government laughingly insists that the country is only 9 percent black, because it likes to undercount the black population.<\/p>\n

BLM is hardly alone in its rosy-eyed view of Castro\u2019s Cuba. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the founder of the widely debunked New York Times\u2019 \u201c1619 Project,\u201d is also enthralled by what she believes to be the equalizing power of social<\/a>ism.<\/p>\n

In a 2019 interview with Vox founder Ezra Klein, Hannah-Jones said, \u201cIf you want to see the most equal, multiracial, it\u2019s not a democracy, but the most equal multiracial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba. . . . Cuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place in the hemisphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn places that are biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

And why is that? \u201cThat\u2019s largely due to socialism,\u201d Hannah-Jones claimed.<\/p>\n

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People protesting the government in Havana, Cuba on July 11, 2021.<\/figcaption>
REUTERS\/Alexandre Meneghini<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If this sounds like communist agitprop, it\u2019s because it is. And it came right from the source. In 2008, Hannah-Jones embarked upon a pilgrimage to Havana \u2014 the political Hajj to the world\u2019s revolutionary Mecca that all believers in the secularist religion of Marxism must undertake \u2014 and immediately upon her return set down to write hagiography.<\/p>\n

In one especially cringe-inducing paean, app<\/a>ropriately titled \u201cThe Cuba We Don\u2019t Know,\u201d she opened with a line that was surely spoon-fed to her by apparatchiks: In pre-revolutionary Havana, \u201cFrank Sinatra rubbed elbows with the American mafia in Cuban casinos. Rich Americans drank mojitos in the mahogany-lined bars of the Hotel New York and the Hotel Nacional.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was just throat-clearing. Without a hint of embarrassment, Hannah-Jones explained that, \u201cthis summer I travel<\/a>ed to Cuba with six journalists, documenting the experiences of the African diaspora in the Western Hemisphere . . . While there, I found a Cuba you may not know. A Cuba with a 99.8 percent literacy rate, the lowest HIV infection rate in the Western Hemisphere, free college and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNearly everywhere among the magnificent Havana architecture signs speak of equality and liberation through education,\u201d she added. Where does one start? Cuba\u2019s health system is so atrocious that the government\u2019s botched response to COVID is one of the reasons thousands of Cubans took to the streets of some 40 cities on July 11, in protests that quickly morphed into an anti-government movement. Its architecture is crumbling \u2014 because of socialist neglect.<\/p>\n

Communist Cuba has \u2014 does this need to be said still? \u2014 not experienced \u201cliberation through education,\u201d it lives under oppression. <\/p>\n

How can we teach Hannah-Jones distorted view of American history in our K-12 schools when she can be so easily duped by propaganda junkets to Cuba?<\/p>\n

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People showing their support for the anti-government protesters in Cuba at a rally in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami on July 11, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Daniel A. Varela\/Miami Herald via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Blacks have suffered greatly under the Marxists. As the black Cuban-American leader Omar Lopez Montenegro explained to the Panama Post a few days ago, the advance that blacks were making electorally in Cuba came to a halt with the revolution in 1959. \u201cOnce Cuba became a communist dictatorship, and the democratic option was lost . . . the only way to rise politically was through appointment by the party.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that just hasn\u2019t happened to black Cubans. Just as BLM, Hannah-Jones seems to be more interested in the ideological content of the party, and less in black lives. Too bad so many in the media appear content to give her fact-free musings such an uncritical airing.<\/p>\n

Mike Gonzalez\u2019s new book, \u2018BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution<\/a>\u2018, is available on presale and will be out September 7.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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