{"id":5198,"date":"2021-09-17T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2021-09-17T17:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:33:46","slug":"how-the-us-government-stokes-racial-tensions-in-cuba-and-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/how-the-us-government-stokes-racial-tensions-in-cuba-and-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How the US Government Stokes Racial Tensions in Cuba and Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In Washington\u2019s eyes, the point of funding Black, indigenous, LGBT or other minority groups in enemy countries is not simply to promote tensions there; it is also to create a narrative that will help convince liberals and leftists in the United States to support American intervention.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by\u00a0Alan Macleod<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HAVANA \u2014<\/strong> \u201cA Black uprising is shaking Cuba\u2019s Communist regime,\u201d read The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>\u2019s headline on the recent unrest<\/a> on the Caribbean island. \u201cAfro-Cubans Come Out In Droves To Protest Government,\u201d wrote NPR<\/em><\/a>. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> went with \u201cCuba\u2019s Black Communities Bear the Brunt of Regime\u2019s Crackdown\u201d as a title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were examples of a slew<\/a> of coverage in the nation\u2019s top outlets, which presented what amounted to one day of U.S.-backed protests<\/a> in July as a nationwide insurrection led by the country\u2019s Black population \u2014 in effect, Cuba\u2019s Black Lives Matter moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from dramatically playing up the size and scope of the demonstrations, the coverage tended to rely on Cuban emigres or other similarly biased sources. One noteworthy example of this was Slate<\/em><\/a>, which interviewed a political exile turned Ivy League professor presenting herself as a spokesperson for young Black working class Cubans. Professor Amalia Dache explicitly linked the struggles of people in Ferguson, Missouri with that of Black Cuban groups. \u201cWe\u2019re silenced and we\u2019re erased on both fronts, in Cuba and the United States, across racial lines, across political lines,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dache\u2019s academic work \u2014 including \u201cRise Up! Activism as Education\u201d and \u201cFerguson\u2019s Black radical imagination and the cyborgs of community-student resistance,\u201d \u2014 shows how seemingly radical academic work can be made to dovetail with naked U.S. imperialism. From her social media\u00a0postings<\/a>, Dache appears to believe there is an impending genocide in Cuba.\u00a0Slate<\/em>\u00a0even had the gall to title the article \u201cFear of a Black Cuban Planet\u201d \u2014 a reference to the militant hip-hop band Public Enemy, even though its leader, Chuck D, has made\u00a0many statements<\/a>\u00a0critical of U.S. intervention in Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Totalitarianism 2.0 in the Western Hemisphere: Cuba. #SOSCuba<\/a> #PatriaYVida<\/a> #CubaLibre<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/PwrOszO788<\/a><\/p>— Amalia Dache (@AmaliaDache) August 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>