The record of Cuba since that country's 1959 reolution on race and racism, both at home and on the world stage is one the US should envy, not deprecate, says Ashaki Binta of the Black Left Unity Coalition. It was Cuban intervention that played a major role in ending the apartheid regime in South Africa. Cuba, with about the population of Illinois, has more doctors on the ground providing care in Haiti than the U.S. Cuban blacks live longer than American blacks and have better health indicators all around. When it comes to denunciations of other countries for supposed racism, Uncle Sam is in a poor position to point out anybody's faults.
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This week’s featured author is J.T. Roane. His book is Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.
