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Christiane Amanpour’s Lovefest with Castro’s Daughter | FrontPage Magazine
By Humberto Fontova On June 13, 2012
Given the media’s neurotic hyper-sensitivity to the most microscopic hint of white on black racism here’s a question:
When would a black human rights activist who was jailed and tortured by a lily-white regime for the crime of quoting Martin Luther King be totally ignored by this same media while he testified to a Senate Committee?
And when would the white daughter of his white torturer (almost concurrently) get fawning media coverage, including a forum by CNN for this white woman to insult the black torture victim as a “liar” a “crook” and a “mercenary”—without the slightest rebuttal from her host?
Answer: When the black gentleman was jailed and tortured by the Castro regime and when the white woman is Raul Castro’s daughter, Fidel Castro’s niece and Che Guevara’s goddaughter.
A caveat: I realize that The Godfather remains the top educational source on Cuba for many Americans. But unlike Connie and Michael Corleone, Cuba’s Stalinist Mafiosi aren’t big into religious arcana like assigning godparents. So I admit to imprecision on the identity of Mariela Castro’s godfather. Raul Castro did serve as best man at Che Guevara’s first wedding, however. And Che Guevara later stood in Raul’s. So I’m close.
Mariela Castro’s family regime, by the way, has jailed and tortured the longest suffering black political prisoners in modern history, several of them suffering longer in her father and uncle’s dungeons than Nelson Mandela suffered in Apartheid South Africa’s. Mariela’s “godfather” Che famously denounced blacks as, “indolent and fanciful, spending their money on frivolity and drink.” Not that you would know any of this from CNN, whom Mariela’s uncle bestowed with the first news bureau granted to a U.S. network.
“Fidel Castro is one helluva guy!” Ted Turner gushed to a capacity crowd at Harvard Law School during a speech in 1997. “You people would like him. Most people in Cuba like him.” Two weeks later CNN was granted its coveted Havana Bureau.
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When would a black human rights activist who was jailed and tortured by a lily-white regime for the crime of quoting Martin Luther King be totally ignored by this same media while he testified to a Senate Committee?
And when would the white daughter of his white torturer (almost concurrently) get fawning media coverage, including a forum by CNN for this white woman to insult the black torture victim as a “liar” a “crook” and a “mercenary”—without the slightest rebuttal from her host?
Answer: When the black gentleman was jailed and tortured by the Castro regime and when the white woman is Raul Castro’s daughter, Fidel Castro’s niece and Che Guevara’s goddaughter.
A caveat: I realize that The Godfather remains the top educational source on Cuba for many Americans. But unlike Connie and Michael Corleone, Cuba’s Stalinist Mafiosi aren’t big into religious arcana like assigning godparents. So I admit to imprecision on the identity of Mariela Castro’s godfather. Raul Castro did serve as best man at Che Guevara’s first wedding, however. And Che Guevara later stood in Raul’s. So I’m close.
Mariela Castro’s family regime, by the way, has jailed and tortured the longest suffering black political prisoners in modern history, several of them suffering longer in her father and uncle’s dungeons than Nelson Mandela suffered in Apartheid South Africa’s. Mariela’s “godfather” Che famously denounced blacks as, “indolent and fanciful, spending their money on frivolity and drink.” Not that you would know any of this from CNN, whom Mariela’s uncle bestowed with the first news bureau granted to a U.S. network.
“Fidel Castro is one helluva guy!” Ted Turner gushed to a capacity crowd at Harvard Law School during a speech in 1997. “You people would like him. Most people in Cuba like him.” Two weeks later CNN was granted its coveted Havana Bureau.
-more at link-
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