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Black lives matter rest in power castro6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But there are many who believe he is neither.įidel was merely a man and he stood up to one of the most brutal superpowers in this world. To others Castro is the devil to blame for all that is wrong. To some, Castro is a saint, as if he can do no wrong. All of their perspectives are true and none of them are true at the same time. Our family is a myriad of racial identities, sexualities, and cultural politics. I have a grand-aunt with blond hair, pale skin, and blue eyes and an uncle with brown eyes, dark skin, and thick curls. I have blood relatives who fought for the Revolution and others who fought against it. I have family members old enough to remember Fulgenico Batista’s Cuba, who lived during the Revolution, and those who only know Cuba after Fidel’s arrival. I am a black woman with Afro-Cuban roots and I live with the perspectives of my grandparents who fled from Cuba in 1961 after the Cuban Revolution as well as those who were left behind. We understand intimately the contradictions and complexities of America, and yet we are forced to reckon with its colonial past and present. We know the truth about this country and we have learned to survive the lies it tells about itself. We live in the contradictions beyond the norm. The White American sociopolitical climate is one of extreme polarities: Democrat or Republican, guilty or non-guilty, white or black, gay or straight, citizen or immigrant.īlack people don’t actually live in that binary world. Aja Monet is a Brooklyn-born Afro-Cuban poet who recently relocated to Miami and co-founded Smoke Signals, a community space for local artists. ![]()
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