That was Smith College president Kathleen McCartney, in an apology widely criticised by whites as "political correctness," and not for also being an acknowledgment of her lack of American cultural awareness. These white attacks are weird because black's point should be obvious:
White guys aren't expected to say - and might not be capable of saying - anything on race
Keep in mind, in that fake Hip-Hop get-up, this will be edutaining to no one but conservatives - and the lame ones, too, those Romney election-losing obnoxious kids used to laughing at their own jokes - diluting the very purpose of what-should-be an effective Rap:
Um, I see a Republican opening here - listen to Jay-Z, addressing critics of his Cuba trip:
"Hear the freedom in my speech ... Obama said, 'Chill, you gonna get me impeached. You don't need this ... anyway, chill with me on the beach,'" he adds, tucking in at the end, "I’m in Cuba, I love Cubans. This communist talk is so confusing."
Now check that out. He's exposing Obama's behind-the-scenes political cowardice - Jay's a Rapper - he don't care. That's deep shit, right there (He knows Obama personally and he still ain't impressed by the first black president? Sheeeiiit).
But, more importantly, if the man thinks "communist talk is so confusing" then shouldn't somebody step in and maybe, like, explain a few things TO THE NUMBER ONE RAPPER IN THE WORLD?
That would be another one of my "crazy" political ideas, trying to win one for the good guys.
Just doing my part.
Win one for the good guys.
And please, please, please, PLEASE, don't get Marco Rubio,...
"Five photo negatives of the Cuban revolutionary figure Ernesto "Che" Guevara that went on sale at the Mexican auction house Louis C. Morton over the weekend were withdrawn from the auction after failing to attract a buyer, Milenio newspaper reports.
Mexican students might love the Argentine now credited as one of the most important figures in the Cuban Revolution, alongside Fidel Castro, but it doesn't appear that art and antique buyers feel the same way.
One of the negatives up for auction was an image of Guevara addressing the First Latin American Congress of Youth in 1960. The bidding for the negatives started at 80,000 pesos (around $6,075) but were withdrawn due to the lack of interest, reports the newspaper."
-- Deborah Bonello, giving me hope the world has finally come to it's senses about this murderer - and take that, France - from The Los Angeles Times.
"See what being historically ignorant will get you. You must learn from the mistakes of others or you’re doomed.
I do not claim great knowledge in socialist, communist or even world history but I am aware that after the Bolshevik revolution, the French revolution, the Cuban revolution, and more I can’t think of right now, that once in power, the powerful leader(s) turned on those who didn’t fit the profile they were selling. Especially, if they ever presented themselves as having an influence on the leadership.
Once they run out of rich bank and industrial CEOs to pillory, they’ll turn on the rich Hollywood and Silicon Valley CEOs, who wanted to salve their guilt at being capitalist with a capital C."
-- Leonard Doyle, using a whole lot of words to scream, "You stupid bitches!", in The Telegraph.
Here's Our Favorite Metro-Sexual Diaper-Boy, Rick Sanchez, at CNN:
Ricardo, Let us talk to you directly.
First, Ricardo, we can’t figure how you being born in Cuba is relevant. You claim that’s why you’re familiar with guys like Joe, with Fidel Castro, and even Communism, but apparently you moved to Florida by the age of 1½ so you must have really soaked up a lot at a very tender age. Impressive, Ricardo, and a true miracle. You had credentials while still wearing a diaper, just like today.
Anyway, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, we yearned to know more about your magnificent narcissism, but quit after a look at Wikipedia’s entry. We think, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, you might be a tad envious that Joe the Plumber is a bigger name than you. Anyway, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, what about this:
"Following a Miami Dolphins football game, on December 10, 1990, just past midnight, on a residential street just outside of Joe Robbie Stadium, an intoxicated Rick Sanchez, driving his Volvo, struck an intoxicated pedestrian, Jeffrey Smuzinick, who had just run into the street and into the direct path of Sanchez's car.
Sanchez initially stopped his car but then left the scene. Sanchez said he left the scene to go home to retrieve his driver's license and insurance card.
Sanchez also said he tried to aid Smuzinick at the scene of the accident and tried to flag down motorists although eyewitnesses claim Sanchez ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image. Sanchez was said to have "smelled strongly of alcohol" by a Metro-Dade police officer. A blood test taken 75 minutes after the accident revealed Sanchez's blood-alcohol level was .15, over the legal .10 limit.
Sanchez ultimately pleaded no contest to the drunk driving charge and he never attempted to provide restitution to Jeffrey Smuzinick or to Smuzinick's family for the 5 years of mounting medical bills that Sanchez's accident caused.
Jeffrey Smuzinick died October 30, 1995 in a Pennsylvania nursing home due to complications resulting from the injuries caused in the accident where he was struck by Rick Sanchez's vehicle. The accident left Smuzinick in a coma for months, permanently paralyzed, and severely physically and mentally disabled. - Wikipedia"
Well, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, your deep concern for those who are injured or killed seems to be highly selective, don’t you think Ricardo Diaper-Boy? And is it possible your descriptive list of Joe was really a deep seated confession (you know, being obnoxious and all)?
We think so, Ricardo Diaper-Boy, and we’re calling you out.
"Steven Soderbergh has made a 257-minute film, in two parts, about the life of Che Guevara, an undertaking that's baffling in a number of ways.
To be specific, it's possible to watch all four hours and 17 minutes of this picture and still not be sure why Soderbergh told this man's story, why he thought it was worth such epic treatment and why he handled his subject with such glowing veneration.
If Soderbergh made as idol-worshiping an epic about George Washington or Abraham Lincoln - actual heroes with tangible, positive legacies - people would gag at the naive treatment.
Perhaps with 'Che,' the hope is that audiences might be confused or browbeaten into reverence, into just assuming they're missing something.
Instead of making the case for Guevara as a hero, Soderbergh just assumes we all agree.
The movie is the communist guerrilla version of the Stations of the Cross, in which we see Guevara at various stages, enduring various hardships.
The invitation is not to think but to admire, and maybe to worship.
Soderbergh and his screenwriters (Peter Buchman and Benjamin A. van der Veen) barely dramatize scenes.
Rather they present them in an uninflected way, as though to re-create a textured, real-life sense of what it must have been like to actually be there, on the ground, in this supposedly amazing time with this supposedly great man.
This is, incidentally, how the French filmmaker Jacques Rivette presented Joan of Arc in his two-part epic, 'Joan the Maid' - a film that bears more than a casual resemblance to 'Che.'
But in 'Joan the Maid,' the attitude of reverence didn't seem misplaced.
Here it occasionally borders on the absurd.
To be sure, Guevara, man and legend, had impressive personal traits:
He was brave and brilliant, dedicated to his cause and a rock star among revolutionaries.
Guevara is the rare case of a man who was at least as handsome and charismatic as the actor who plays him onscreen, Benicio Del Toro.
But what's the legacy?
Guevara helped lead the Cuban revolution, which ushered in Fidel Castro.
Thanks to Guevara, the poor weren't quite as poor and a corrupt regime was toppled, but in its place came a totalitarian dictatorship.
Fifty years after the so-called liberation, there has been no free election in Cuba.
Then Guevara went to Bolivia to bring the joys of totalitarian communism to that country - as though that were a good thing, and as though the United States might just forget the Monroe Doctrine and tolerate another Soviet satellite in Latin America.
If Soderbergh wanted to make a case that such actions by Guevara were indeed useful and heroic, rather than blindly utopian and destructive, 'Che' could have been a provocative and fascinating polemic.
But because Soderbergh won't dive into the realm of ideas, his movie becomes a series of noble tableaux, and watching it is like sitting through a slow, four-hour worship service in the woods."
-- Mick LaSalle, reviewing an awful film, an awful man, and an awful re-writing of history, in The San Francisco Chronicle.
"For the first time in Cuba, scientists are using a natural medicine derived from scorpion toxin for the treatment of cancer.
The initiative is part of a national project led by the Pharmaceutical Biological Labs (Labiofam) that seeks to demonstrate the effect of the red scorpion's poison against tumours. The study is the only one being made in the world and it has shown positive results so far, according to Fabio Linares, head of the Homeopathy Department in the province.
Linares told ACN that the permission to produce the medicine and to apply it on a small group of patients was requested last year, 2007. He said the effectiveness of the homeopathic technique lies in the minimum percentage of the active ingredient used in the preparation. More than 20,000 bottles can be prepared with only one drop, said the expert. "
