Why are people getting all bent out of shape over Castro dying?

[flamingdem]

45. Taking the bait to say that Castro exists because the USA has dominated Cuba for two

centuries. I've been to the island more times than I'd say and know that it's about 50/50 in terms of support for Fidel and the Revolution. People take the long view, they have relatives who lived under Batista. Of course many people, especially younger people, despise Fidel and the Castros and they have plenty of good reasons for this. But it's not as monolithic as the media would have you believe. You will see this at the funeral, many love the man.

Fidel supported AfroCubans and they did and many still do support him. All you have to do is read about what life was like for the poor of color in Cuba in the 1950s and you'll gain sympathy for what Fidel was all about.

---- Now going back a couple of centuries and you can understand why Cuba has had to fight so hard for it's independence and most of all FOR ITS IDENTITY with the USA only 90 miles away:

Black unrest and British pressure to abolish slavery motivated many Creoles to advocate Cuba's annexation to the United States, where slavery was still legal. Other Cubans supported the idea because they longed for what they considered higher development and democratic freedom. Annexation of Cuba was repeatedly supported by the US. In 1805 President Thomas Jefferson considered possessing Cuba for strategic reasons, sending secret agents to the island to negotiate with Governor Someruelos.

Secretary of State John Quincy Adams

In April 1823 US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the "ripe fruit theory".

Adams wrote, “There are laws of political as well as physical gravitation; and if an apple severed by its native tree cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union which by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off its bosom.

Adams described Cuba as “incapable” and described its separation from Spain as inevitable. He specified the islands gravitation towards North America rather than Europe. As he explained that, “the transfer of Cuba to Great Britain would be an event unpropitious to the interest of this Union.