The Black Informant

Val of Babalu blog sent me this post not too long ago (with moving and all, I did not have time to post it on this site).

Here is a little “testament” of how Castro treats his people–including blacks as you will read in the story below:

PLACETAS, Cuba — On March 15, 1990, the Cuban regime incarcerated one of the island’s best sons for the sole crime of living in liberty and democracy. It all began when my brother, Jorge Luis ”Antúnez” García Pérez expressed his ideas in a public plaza. In our country, this constitutes a crime that is punished with prison time — plus ill treatment and abuses committed with equal impunity.

Jorge Luis has since been a political prisoner and prisoner of conscience. This week, he completed 15 years of a 17-year sentence. He has endured beatings, punishment cells, sealed cells, hunger, the lack of medical and religious assistance and being forced to sleep on the cold, humid floor.

During this time in prison, he has been exiled for more than 10 years from his beloved native province.

Jorge Luis had a dream of being an athlete. Instead, he has suffered through beatings that shattered his youthful health. By age 21, he had turned into an adult riddled with chronic illnesses that will accompany him for the rest of his life. He wanted to be a martial artist, and prison guards used him as practice for different martial-arts techniques, even while he was handcuffed. (more…)

Despite all of this, numbers of blacks here in the US will still align themselves with Castro.

Go figure!!