not many non-whites here

The world has finally lost one of the longest reigning kings, I mean tyrants in modern history. Fidel Castro has croaked.

This man threatened our nation with nuclear war just 90 miles away, jailed and murdered his political opponents, was a warmonger across the globe, if there was ever one, mortally hated and threatened the country for which all people here (minus the sub-18 and foreigners) just voted in, continued and expanded the social inequality between the government class and the non-government class as well as corruption (in a “classless” utopia, all utility is derived from cronyism/connections rather than currency), and yes, continued to oversee a harsh racist society in Cuba too.

Racism in Cuba has been concealed and reinforced in part because it isn’t talked about. The government hasn’t allowed racial prejudice to be debated or confronted politically or culturally, often pretending instead as though it didn’t exist. Before 1990, black Cubans suffered a paralysis of economic mobility while, paradoxically, the government decreed the end of racism in speeches and publications. To question the extent of racial progress was tantamount to a counterrevolutionary act. This made it almost impossible to point out the obvious: racism is alive and well.

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An important first step would be to finally get an accurate official count of Afro-Cubans. The black population in Cuba is far larger than the spurious numbers of the most recent censuses. The number of blacks on the street undermines, in the most obvious way, the numerical fraud that puts at less than one-fifth of the population. Many people forget that in Cuba, a drop of white blood can — if only on paper — make a mestizo, or white person, out of someone who in social reality falls into neither of those categories. Here, the nuances governing skin color are a tragicomedy that hides longstanding racial conflicts.



More communist racism:

Cuba is no more postracial than anywhere else. Many Afro-Cubans here and abroad have been quick to point out that the presence of Mr. Obama, the first black president of the United States, only highlights that the Cuban government does not reflect the demographics of their country.



On an island that is around two-thirds black and mixed race, according to a 2007 study by the Cuban economist Esteban Morales Domínguez, the civil and public leadership is about 70 percent white. He also found that most scientists, technicians and university professors, up to 80 percent in some fields, were white.



“The images of the meetings, the agreements, they’re all shameful for many black Cubans — I’m including myself in this — because it’s difficult to feel represented,” said Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures at the University of Connecticut and a scholar at Harvard University.

In this society the Castro regimes sells as "post-racial," black peoples' hair is called "bad hair":

The Castro government has long treated racism as an issue solved by the revolution, which promised equality for all. But despite the Castros' early and overt denunciation of racism, it continues to be a pernicious presence in Cuban daily life. Sawyer offered one example, noting that kinky black hair is commonly referred to as pelo malo, or "bad hair."

There's a lot of good documentation about the evil of the Castro Regime on many levels, especially their racism. Seeing defense of these monsters is sickening. Just the fact that a man was leader of a country for almost 60 years, vs 4-8 here, is sad.