From: "michael pugliese" <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>
Subject: RE: Re: AUT: capitalist cuba?
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:57:50 -0800



Race & Identity in Cuba
... 2. What do Blacks have in Cuba? (1996), 4. An Open Letter
to Carlos Moore (1990).
5. Where did the Blacks go? - on the Pope's visit. (1998), Afro-Cuban
Voices on ...
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>--- Original Message ---
>From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
>To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Date: 3/11/02 5:24:25 AM
>

>
>>Double rubbish: Firstly, let me ask you this: if the majority
of Cubans 
>>are African Americans, why are the latter so thinly represented
in the 
>>upper echelons of the state? Louis, have you ever been to this
Cuba that 
>>you write so much about? The majority are not African American
at all. 
>>Please go and take a look, preferably with your eyes open.
Secondly, the 
>>idea that people who oppose your arguments must be racist is
the crudest 
>>piece of rhetoric that anyone could possibly use to close off
a debate.
>>Tahir
>
>I did not say that there is no prejudice in Cuba. Instead I
said that there 
>was a possibility that Eurocentrism or racism made it impossible
for the 
>idealist communists on aut-op-sy to engage with the social reality
of Cuba. 
>Upon further reflection, I have decided it is intellectual and
political 
>laziness instead.
>
>
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