Fidel Castro has Died at 90

[Master Zik]

Hold on now guys, let's keep this guy around to argue with ninjahood

This some Hispanic inner fighting. Son about to prove ninja's Hispanics are not a monolith rhetoric true.

Cubans the most successful hispanics, the rest mooch on welfare. Lets go!

 

[sugafree]

The most interesting thing about the article posted above is how silent republicans tend to be when it comes to Cuban-Americans. You also have to wonder about Democrats not saying anything about it. After all, the left is often accused of relaxing immigration laws to benefit from the "immigrant vote;" meanwhile the GOP has had a 50-year head start in bringing in reliable voters.

This nation is just full of hypocrites. We could all benefit from being honest about it.

Well said!

 

[WASPS ANDD ASPS]

Wheres Papi to make sense of all this

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[luckyluchiano]

The most interesting thing about the article posted above is how silent republicans tend to be when it comes to Cuban-Americans. You also have to wonder about Democrats not saying anything about it. After all, the left is often accused of relaxing immigration laws to benefit from the "immigrant vote;" meanwhile the GOP has had a 50-year head start in bringing in reliable voters.

This nation is just full of hypocrites. We could all benefit from being honest about it.

Aren't the Cubans the one who made up the bulk of Hispanics who voted for Trump?

Non Hispanics toss around the term like all spanish speakers look at each other like fam, when in reality none of em rock with the Mexican brehs and many of them align themselves more to Spain thus they view themselves in the same light as European white people do.

 

[daddy style]

Castro understood how white privilege works and initially it always comes under the guise of the cross. Castro did not allow this, and props to him for that as well. I am all for white based religions to be destroyed because none are about a higher power based upon evolution, white religions are based upon oppression and guilt. Castro knew this and it was not until recently that the catholic church had an in there. Anywhere there is the catholic church, white privilege follows soon after. Name any country where the catholic church is prominent, white people rule. You worship a white jesus, white angels and white saints, spiritually nothing of color stands a chance. So here you have white cubans complaining about Castro, how he kept them as poor as the black people. Yeah, so what? Deal with it.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

The amount of credit, and fawning liberal coverage Castro got for the Cuban health care system has always struck as pretty silly.




If you are dictator who relies on the labour of the people to generate income for yourself and your cronies you have a vested interest in keeping the people healthy and working.


Cuba primarily exports sugar right?


That's a labour intensive product, if Cuba had OIL bet Castro wouldn't given a rats *** about Cuban healthcare.

 

[cash money 1999]

Cubans not exploiting welfare??? 

some have it hard but you think people turning cars into boats and risking their lives to smooch of the government and live in the bottom tier?

miami politicians,lawyers,doctors, real estate agents,bankers, business owners etc are mostly cubans. We own the whole bottom half of florida...and not by scamming the government.

 

[AZwildcats]

Castro understood how white privilege works and initially it always comes under the guise of the cross. Castro did not allow this, and props to him for that as well. I am all for white based religions to be destroyed because none are about a higher power based upon evolution, white religions are based upon oppression and guilt. Castro knew this and it was not until recently that the catholic church had an in there. Anywhere there is the catholic church, white privilege follows soon after. Name any country where the catholic church is prominent, white people rule. You worship a white jesus, white angels and white saints, spiritually nothing of color stands a chance. So here you have white cubans complaining about Castro, how he kept them as poor as the black people. Yeah, so what? Deal with it.

Deal with it? You don't empathize with them at all?

 

[cash money 1999]

Ninjahood stepping up for my people

 

[JPS]

some have it hard but you think people turning cars into boats and risking their lives to smooch of the government and live in the bottom tier?

miami politicians,lawyers,doctors, real estate agents,bankers, business owners etc are mostly cubans. We own the whole bottom half of florida...and not by scamming the government.

yea. you didn't read the about the cuban adjustment act literally a few posts above.

I didn't know you owned florida. Show me the receipts 

 

[JPS]

 
They are the actual ones leeching off the system big time.

A relatively little-noted investigation from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports Castro is shipping Cuba's old to the U.S. in soaring numbers — because the Cuban Adjustment Act entitles them to free housing, free Medicaid, free Supplemental Social Security and even welfare. No matter if they have relatives who can care for them, a free retirement plan is theirs for the taking.

That's quite an enticement, given that Cuban old-age pensions run about $7 a month, and Cubans live in shambling misery with shortages, ration cards, broken-down transport and long lines. By contrast, the lowest SSI package is about $700 a month.

With free housing, free health care and free spending money added on, Cubans have a retirement plan unlike anything they can imagine in Cuba, all without having contributed a penny.

The Sun-Sentinel found that in Cuba, knowledge of these benefits is widespread. A surge of elderly Cubans coming to the U.S. for benefits has already begun, nearly doubling from 1,460 to 2,685 so far this year. And Castro has encouraged the emigration of the most costly.

It's part of an overall surge in migration, ever since President Obama announced normalization of relations. Customs and Border Protection data show that from October 2014 to June 2015, 27,296 Cubans entered the U.S. for residency, a 78% rise over last year.

More are coming. Cuba has the hemisphere's oldest population. The average age is 47, and nearly 24% of the population is above age 55, according to CIA data.

The Sun-Sentinel reported arrivals of Cubans over age 60 have risen fivefold since 2010, based on data from Florida's Department of Children and Families. So long as Cuba's economy  continues to fail, as socialism always does, and the U.S. welfare spigots remain turned on, the trickle may become a Europe-style flood.

It's become a convenient pressure valve for the Castro regime to rid itself of its old people, with all their costs of aging, while holding on to power.

The cost to U.S. taxpayers for this retirement plan for Castro's castoffs is likely billions. The Sun-Sentinel found welfare alone for all Cuban refugees is about $685 million, and Cubans are the No. 1 recipients.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...l-reexamine-benefits-cuban-immigrants-n492321

http://politicalanalysis2011.blogspot.com/

 

[Based Jesus]

 

 

 

 

Growing up in the Caribbean it allowed me to form an opinion about Castro independent of being feed stuff my American teachers, so all I have to say about Castro is..........................**** him.



He was an oppressive dictator, period.



No matter the relief he gave black Cubans, he kept most of them in economic despair because of his arrogance and greed.



One of the few, few things I am thankful of for the Reagan Administration (which was mainly all around ****, all over the world) is that they served as a credible threat to crazy "revolutionaries" every trying to take control of the government, along with the UK. But trust and believe these clowns weren't trying, and weapons weren't coming in from Cuba



For the people that he may have helped and his family, I guess today this is a bad day.



But for me, not, I won't pour out an ounce of liquor for this clown.

I don't really blame Castro for the the economic despair Cuba faced under his rule. America was a large part in making sure it suffered.



Who knows what untold atrocities were committed against only the caucasians of Cuba?

He still could have tried to transition Cuba into a socially democratic state instead of a struggling communist one.


He put maintaining power over economic decision that would have helped his people.


Of course the embargo and fall of the Soviet Union hurt, but they are not the sole reason for the state Cuba is in.

You right he definitely shares the blame. I should have said I don't place all of it on him instead of saying I don't blame him at all.

Oh ok, Gotcha famb.

-Listen, I'm not 100% anti-Castro or that government. I realize they have to done some good things. some

But bad governance is bad governance. An oppressive dictator is an oppressive dictator

Yeah man I agree. I admire some of his views and actions. I love his staunch opposition to imperialism. I admire how he made cuba a major player on the world stage.

Dodging CIA assassination attempts left and right, surviving like 10 US presidencies and calling this country out on it's meddlesome *** ways but......

 

Castro understood how white privilege works and initially it always comes under the guise of the cross. Castro did not allow this, and props to him for that as well. I am all for white based religions to be destroyed because none are about a higher power based upon evolution, white religions are based upon oppression and guilt. Castro knew this and it was not until recently that the catholic church had an in there. Anywhere there is the catholic church, white privilege follows soon after. Name any country where the catholic church is prominent, white people rule. You worship a white jesus, white angels and white saints, spiritually nothing of color stands a chance. So here you have white cubans complaining about Castro, how he kept them as poor as the black people. Yeah, so what? Deal with it.

Deal with it? You don't empathize with them at all?

So a couple people got killed. ****** get shot every day b.

 

[ninjahood]

Castro understood how white privilege works and initially it always comes under the guise of the cross. Castro did not allow this, and props to him for that as well. I am all for white based religions to be destroyed because none are about a higher power based upon evolution, white religions are based upon oppression and guilt. Castro knew this and it was not until recently that the catholic church had an in there. Anywhere there is the catholic church, white privilege follows soon after. Name any country where the catholic church is prominent, white people rule. You worship a white jesus, white angels and white saints, spiritually nothing of color stands a chance. So here you have white cubans complaining about Castro, how he kept them as poor as the black people. Yeah, so what? Deal with it.

wish you would say this on camera so you would be exiled into da farthest reaches of da Internet... da nerve of u bloviating this drivel..





type of things Cubans do to get here...

 

[chadleroy]

But bad governance is bad governance. An oppressive dictator is an oppressive dictator

Basically. Not sure where the hell some of y'all got your info from.

 

[Nouss]

Oh trust me I understand the politics behind why these things happened. Like I said I can't say anything bad about the man because from what I know he did a ton of good for Africa. The beef white cubans have with him is none of my business.

Nah man. I know you already know the things Africans had to do at the time. I was just piggybacking on your original quote.

All I'm saying is that some countries were forced into communism because they had no other options at the time.

I'm not talking about Cuba.

 

[EddieDoyers]

As someone who is an outsider from the Cuban realm, I don't see how Fidel should be mourned. His dictatorship resembled of what we see in North Korea currently, with less of the "cult of personality". I can see why the Cubans in Florida are celebrating his death

 

[EddieDoyers]

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/26/cuba-fidel-castros-record-repression

 

[elcubanodel510]

It amazes me how people celebrate this man. I'm just going to presume all those who view him as a hero also view Hitler, Stalin,hussein and every other tyrant that's lived in the same light.... Most Cuban people don't like castro they just can't speak against him because you'll be thrown in jail where you will most likely be killed or tortured in some way. The reason he partnered with so many African countries was to spread the propaganda of communism. They still do it to this day by sending doctors and aid to other countries. Meanwhile the Cuban people have no access to basic things like medicine or antibiotics. I had a cousin die at birth because they couldn't give her what she needed.

By the way everything is shut down on the island for mourning for the next 9 days. Pretty much the samething that happened in North Korea

 

[ccastro02]

Castro dies, and thread turns into a discussion about which Hispanic group is the most successful in typical NT fashion.

 

[ksteezy]

Man this gimmick is getting old

Dude gunning for corniest NTer of all time, after being crowned NTer with worst taste in women of all time.

 

[daddy style]

Deal with it? You don't empathize with them at all?

No, Cuba was a slave port as well. I have no empathy for white people suffering in areas that African slaves built. Usually, they weren't supposed to be where they are suffering in the first place, as they are also probably the descendants of the oppressors, falling upon hard times. If Castro hastened their plight, so be it. Castro could not get rid of social racism, as that was ingrained into that society. You can't stop white people from thinking that they are better than everyone else due to the color of their skin, not when they are able to point to the rest of the western world, then being able to point to the white patriarchal privilege that exists there. But Castro was well intentioned in his beginning efforts. He still helped Africa, and other things. White America loves to demonize anyone who is not white and european, so as Malcolm X once said, "any time a white man tells you that you are doing something wrong, more than likely you are doing something right."

 

[Master Zik]

As someone who is an outsider from the Cuban realm, I don't see how Fidel should be mourned. His dictatorship resembled of what we see in North Korea currently, with less of the "cult of personality". I can see why the Cubans in Florida are celebrating his death

Yeah luckily Cubans had America close by to escape to. Where as its much harder for North Koreans to escape to China.

And let that sink in N. Koreans see China as making it to freedom. Getting to South Korea is out of the question.

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

He actually said nothing. Cubans are the most successful group of Hispanics in the U.S. They don't consume welfare like Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. I'm a Black American with Cuban ancestry. Afro Cubans despised the man despite what leftist Black Americans would like to believe. They were also thrown in prison, monitored by secret police and executed just like their white counterparts.

Education was free, but you can't eat books. One of Castro's standout quotes was that even prostitutes are educated. That's supposed to be an accomplishment in an oppressive regime?

There is a clear divisiveness on what we are taught in the United States and how people around the world view Castro.


I dont agree with his Socialist policies, but Castro led a successful revolution against a U.S. propped up Dictator. The U.S. hated Castro not because he was a "Marxist-Socialist", but they hated him because he threw out their monopoly (United Fruit, or Chiquita Banana). He resisted against U.S. imperialism/colonialism.

We can criticize Castro for his tactics for jailing, censoring, and killing dissidents, but the U.S. does the same thing. Hell this country kills citizens with drones, btu Castro is an "animal"?


I only wish Puerto Ricans had a leader like Castro to resist U.S. occupation.

 

[sugafree]

some have it hard but you think people turning cars into boats and risking their lives to smooch of the government and live in the bottom tier?

miami politicians,lawyers,doctors, real estate agents,bankers, business owners etc are mostly cubans. We own the whole bottom half of florida...and not by scamming the government.

While I do admire your strong pride of heritage......

That same pride still makes for blind arrogance and being so ignorantly biased you're dumb.

Please tell me who's dime your first generation Cuban Migrant folks came here and had babies on healthcare wise???

So those boats were also loaded with cash to pay for you alls rapid reproduction rates in South Florida???

Welfare,General Relief,Section 8 Housing had absolutely no aid nor influence on the first generation Cuban refugee's beginning in South Florida???

Hate to break to you, my prideful Cubano......you all have more in common than you want to realize and accept with the other hispanic groups you like to turn your nose up at...

See this is the blind arrogance people can't stand about some South Florida Cubans, the same way some of your people turn thier noses up at other hispanic migrants in this country is the same arrogance and bigotry the Miami whites and Italian transplants did you all when the Reagan administration accepted yall with open arms into what used to be predominantly Black/Bahamian/White/Italian english speaking Miami.

I find it absolutely hilarious and hypocritical of Cuban republicans voting for Trump......

The same guy who who frowned upon and fear mongered Mexican and Muslim immigrants.

Yet you all did the same exact thing everyone else complains about when you arrived in South Florida.

1.The system was leeched on by you all

2.Crime skyrocketed because we received so many of your homelands undesirables, Colombians vs Cuban drug wars??? Did we forget about that????

3.Came here and reproduced like rabbits on the USA's flawed mismanaged healthcare system like every other immigrant you all frown upon.

4. Came to South Florida and instead of adapting and embracing this countries customs and language courtesies

you made your very own homeland religions,cultures and language the dominant in South Florida.

5. Meanwhile your first generation Cubans are going back to live like kings and queens off the already destroyed social security and state disablity system, that us later generation US born Americans aren't even gonna see.

Is that what Islamaphobia and the Mexican immigrant hate is about???

Another race or culture coming into the USA reproducing like rabbits while leeching off the system in place,

not embracing US customs and native languages, religions but instead trying dominate and influence someone else

country with your own customs,religions and languages???? 

Did your Cuban people not do that to South Florida already???????

Ill wait....

 

[illicit305]

bruhhhhh this last post so much lulz