Subject: Re: On interracial relationships, or anything
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:04:51 GMT

Rich Thompson (thomprr@ego.psych.mcgill.ca) wrote:

: > "Mixture or Massacre".  It exploded the carefully constructed
: > and nurtured myth in Brazil of the happy blending of the
: > races, and the unimportance of race, when in fact this
: > myth was crafted and propagated precisely to provide the
: > cover under which white power and control could be maintained
: > even in a situation where the whites were a minority.

: Out of curiousity, S.F., do you have any opinions on race relations in
: Cuba? On the suface, they seem to be doing a much better job than Brazil.
: Have you read "My Father's Country is the Poor", Alice Walker's account of
: her visits there? Or anything by Huey Newton, who lived there for some
: time, and had good things to say?

I have read neither.  However, the stories I have heard from
Black Cubans convince me that Cuba is just another variant
of the "happy mixture" myth.  Ask any Black Cuban what he
thinks of the racial attitudes of the white Cubans down in
Miami, and the answer will provide the key clue.  I doubt
very much that communism is a sufficient condition to the
elimination of racism (white supremacy), and in fact can
entrench it even more firmly.  Communism is not the way
to African liberation.



: Peace,
: Rich

"From the time that Shango first condemned his
Muntu to suffer under an alien yoke in alien
lands, to this day, centuries have passed and
your fists have not yet carried out his command
to set yourselves free!"
        --Zapata Olivella


	 

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