Will Libs Back A Racist Castro?

To the liberals, everything wrong in Cuba can be tracked back to the US embargo, not to Castro's repressive, corrupt regime.

How will the defenders of Castro react when the racism of the Cuban dictator becomes news? From "Unspin" in today's OCRegister:

So far there has been virtually no Castro misdeed so depraved that Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandela, Oliver Stone, Pete Seeger or a long list of European and U.S. academics and Hollywood types won't blame it on the U.S. embargo.

But that could be about to change - because if there's one ultimate sin that can't be excused by the "progressives" of the world, it's racism. And, as noted by National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez last month, much of Cuba's dissident movement is now black - and maybe the media will notice their grievances instead of seeing everything with a U.S.-vs.-Cuba filter.

Cuba is more than 60 percent black or mixed race, but is tightly controlled by a nearly all-white elite. Few "Afro-Cubans" have ever been senior leaders in the government or Communist Party. By some estimates, blacks and part-blacks make up nearly 90 percent of prison inmates, and have little access to the health care and consumer goods reserved for the elite (and tourists). By left-wing standards of proof, this should be enough to convict Castro of overseeing a tropical apartheid.

So when the goons begin their inevitable roundup of the 160 brave souls who spoke the truth about Castro last month, here's hoping the media notice their race - and the nature of their complaints about Cuba.

That Castro is racist and running a "tropical aparthied" system in Cuba should come as no surprise. Everything about his regime's public image is a fraud, and this is just another aspect of the Communist ideal and reality not meshing.