Remember when noted Radical Black Communist Nelson Mandela came to Miami, and our public officials earned everlasting international scorn by acting like a complete bunch of close-minded, reactionary idiots?
Well we have another noted Radical Black Communist who wants to spread his message all over our kids, so let's dust off the Mandela playbook:
But Miami-Dade schools will not mass broadcast the speech, spokesman John Schuster said. Teachers who wish to show the address will have to live stream it from the White House website. What students who opt out will do during the 15- or 20-minute speech is up to each school.So it will not be made available at all to any teacher on the public school system television, and instead teachers will have to stream the speech over the web on their classroom computers?
Too bad with budget cuts there are few working computers in the schools, and those that do function are unlikely to be able to stream the speech without significant technical issues.
Let's hear school board member Marta Perez calmly explain her completely reasonable thought process:
``To force students to sit in a classroom where it's easy to get students because they're in school, because it's a captive audience, and to even send out lesson plans -- it's reminiscent of totalitarian governments like Castro.''Exactly!
And with lesson plans no less -- what is wrong with this man?
I'm sure Ms. Perez would have felt the same way if President Bush (a white non-communist) wished to speak to the students, and she would have made the exact same fair-minded and totally rational comparison to Fidel Castro.
The NYT put it well today:
There is, of course, nothing socialist in any of Mr. Obama’s policies, as anyone with a passing knowledge of socialism and its evil history knows. But in this country, unlike actual socialist countries, nobody can be compelled to listen to the president. What is most disturbing about all this is what it says about the parents — and the fact that they have such little regard for their children’s intelligence and ability to think.I don't mind the parents so much, they are not policymakers.
But the elected educators?
17 comments:
Only the tea baggers (and I guess our friends the Miami Cubans) would, with a straight face, criticize a brother for telling children to go to school and study hard.
I love Miami Cubans as next as the next person who says they love Miami Cubans. I'd like them to come with me on my next trip to Cuba, however, and maybe the propaganda they spew might shift.
This is so embarassing, and sure to continue to portray Miami as a Coconut Republic.
SFL - You don't understand. You can't understand. You did you attend Belen, where there is no indoctrination.
Castro is one in the same as Hitler, and what he does to that island my grandparents voluntarily abandoned on a tip from Bautista so they could transfer all their assets to the Bank of New York and voluntarily leave their family and land behind, is our modern day Holocaust.
At least, that's what I am supposed to say.
Me: there is a huge African influence on the island, and an amazing Afro Cuban culture as a result
Miami Cuban who has never set foot on Cuban soil, quickly responding: My family is from Spain!
Me: So you're Spanish?
Miami Cuban: No. You don't understand. You sound like a Communist.
10:48 Touching anecdote. But everyone knows it was Chase Manhattan.
Twenty years ago, I used to fantasize about leasing a large Caterpillar bulldozer for the Calle Ocho festival, start about Douglas road, pushing my way east to Bayshore drive. Unfortunately, now the only ones scooped up would be Nicaraguan lawn guy and my Guatemalan limpiadora. T/C for my Cuban Brethren.
We are truly a "world class" city!!!
Florida, now officially worse than Texas.
You liberal jew socialist lawyers.
The CLAIM is that President Barack Obama's back-to-school message is responsibility.
But what does "responsibility" REALLY mean?
It means he is black, and blacks want The Welfare, and support socialism and communism and Castro. And my abuelo told me all that is bad.
Wait. I am confused, that doesn't really make sense, now that I think about it.
I commented about this in several forums today - it's nonsense. Shear and utter nonsense.
Note to conservatives: Obama is not a socialist, he's a corporatist, just like Bush; bailouts for the rich, corporate warfare, corporate welfare -- the list goes on and on.
I challenged over 100 Republicans today to name me one significant policy difference between Bush and Obama.
The silence was deafening.
And that is the reason that i moved from Miami last year. I had to get away from the right-wing Miami Cuban. Even the ones who actually went to school were too ignorant. The Miami Cubans only foster racism against them. This is perhaps why most dont venture outside of Miami. And when they do, they never admit that they are Cuban.
I can't believe that I am actually going to post a serious comment on this blog (what has the world come to?).
I am a Miami Cuban. I went to Belen ("Men for Others" is about charity and equality, not right wing fanaticism). I do not think that Obama is a socialist. I am aware that Castro (who himself attended Belen), although bad, is no Hitler. I do not hide my Cubanness outside of Miami (in fact I advertise it more when I leave town, as I am proud of who I am).
The facts about Miami Cubans are not the same and the perceptions.
I would suggest that we have at least as many Miami Cubans that are progressive as we have conservative Miami Cubans. Why then the image problem? It all goes to the adage:
"the squeaky wheel gets the grease." Nuts like those on the babalu blog and elsewhere just do the most yelling. Thus, they get the most attention.
Crazy Miami Cubans, such as the ones that many of you speak, make the rest of sick and ashamed (much the way that rednecks make New Yorkers nauseous).
OK. I'm done, lest I spend my entire holiday on this crap.
I don't think it's fair to conflate this event with the Nelson Mandela protests. I'm a Cuban-American progressive, something most people would consider mutually-exclusive, and while I believe Obama should be allowed to speak to students and the students allowed to listen in school, I do also agree with the criticism against Nelson Mandela in the 90s.
His work for South Africans is undeniable, yes, but his support for a Castro regime that has and continues to treat his own people in ways that are at times worse than conditions in apartheid is hypocritical.
Unfortunately, it seems when anything has to do with a person of colour, it's automatically a race issue. No, it isn't. I can disagree with you, and you with me, and I'm a white Cuban and you're a black Haitian and it's not a race thing. It's a disagreement. I've no doubt there are racists on both sides of the race isle, but the continued idiocy and constant cries of false racism by both sides is just getting really, really old.
Well said.
10:50, fair enough and thanks for your comment.
@ 9:05
Be careful. Those 'Miami Cubans' are everywhere. The good thing is, you can usually tell if their commin by the cigar smoke. One minute, you're driving along listening to NPR, the next, you're tied down in Bayside Park and forced to play dominos while reading the Spanish version of Ayn Rand's "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal". They'll getcha. No matter what you do or where you go, they'll getcha.
Some nice replies here, some awkward hateful ones, even in discreet.
Sad but funny, due to being the latest descendant of The Cuban $100.. it fascinates me how my mothers motherland has been invaded by weak minded individuals, with oppressive tactics.. or is it a last resort of manipulation backed up by discreet hierarchies?
I wish more Cuban Jews mixed into our justice system to bring forth more equality. Cubans and Jews are special people with powers... only when correctly guided do they make honorable deeds. I guess we're just human after all... born dependant... thank God for life if you still have it, for whatever its worth. Real Men rarely exist anymore, just offspring of humans, many mixed confused ones at that.
Why do some people try to undermind others is my mind-boggling daily trivia. Technology has won the war, humans are merely pawns compared to modern artillery. The paradigm of humanity has expanded outwards while human minds trail behind, perhaps they await an invitation from a fictional character via a Holy email?
Social reform is in Gods hands and our history... the future is our achievments, so choose your futures humbly for retaliation is all some people save energy up for. Brainwashing is a thing of the past if you're truely American. So get it together America, or get out of our Universal Movement. Cheers to the smart folks and the ignorant for they know not what they do.
Namaste
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