Didn't see this posted anywhere but it is in the news: BLM backlash over Cuba comments

[MisterNiceKitty]

BLM Per NBC News:

... the organization urged the U.S. to lift the embargo immediately and appeared to praise the country. “The people of Cuba are being punished by the U.S. government because the country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination,” the message read."

The response:

"Black Cuban organizations in the country have done their best to send out their own messages in the wake of the protests. Alianza Afro-Cubana, an advocacy organization for Black LGBTQ Cubans, said in a social media statement that the Cuban government “should listen to the people, serve them” instead of criminalizing them. The group called on Black Lives Matter to “sit down and have a conversation about solidarity."

“We call on activists and anti racist groups to be concerned about the situation of Black people, who bear the heaviest burden of violence,” the statement reads. “Cuba continues to show its racist reality and that justice has a selective condition.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-lives-matter-faces-backlash-statement-cuba-protest-rcna1438

[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. I saw this a few days ago

But it was all right wing sources.

[The Magistrate]

2. It Was A Stupid Damn Thing To Do, Sir

If left activists and academics had the slightest sense about mass-marketing our situation would be vastly different, politically and economically.

People who would approve of Castro's heirs could be accommodated in one or two large high gymnasiums in comfort, people with animus to Castro's heirs can be found in quantity anywhere. Most people don't care, but if reminded of the thing, will fall into the animus groove readily. That very last thing a political movement with mass aspirations wants to do is say something that translates readily to 'Viva Cuba Libre!'