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Conservatives Lose It After Obama Takes Photo In Front Of Che Guevara Mural
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Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,868 posts)pretty much!
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)I'm a party animal!
Mika
(17,751 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)...and country comes dead last.
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SoapBox
(18,791 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)And that is really saying something!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)..... so they completely missed the secret message Obama was sending with the color of his tie.
Martin Eden
(12,881 posts)... was the wingnuts are gonna bloviate.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)their drawers are all bunched up and has a burr in them.
LiberalArkie
(15,731 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,731 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)instead of the Castro brothers.
Duval
(4,280 posts)Been knowing that for years, however. I have a Che t-shirt I bought in Guatemala. On the back it says things like "people should not be oppressed". Che and Castro had big differences. Apparently the Cuban people chose not to take the picture down. Says a lot.
As far as Conservatives, I wish they would lose it and go somewhere else.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)... you know, real issues.
highoverheadspace
(307 posts)Pretty funny.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Can't get the image to display. Take a sec and be ready to gasp at yet another horror:
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/chinese-communist-leader-chairman-mao-zedong-welcomes-us-president-picture-id51399215
OMG, it gets worse. Again, I can't get image to display, but this link has image after image of a Republican president in cahoots with a Communist, even wearing their clothes. Could it be that this president was a secret communist.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gerald+ford+with+communists&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=965&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjvpqqw7tTLAhXH2SYKHWAgBVkQ_AUIBigB
DianaForRussFeingold
(2,552 posts)Three Years After "We Will Bury You," Nikita Khrushchev
1st. Communist leader to visit US.
What a character..!
VP.Nixon/Khrushchev
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)They are as obvious as trolls on the internet!
I kind of wish they'd just be honest and wear their Klan robes in public.
MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Darn that Obama! The wind never blew when Reagan was President!
Chakab
(1,727 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)But if it wasn't, then he and the GOP might just have something in common...
Their evidence for this often-parroted internet falsehood is Ches youthful diary passage where he visits a Venezuelan slum and offensively opines that the blacks he encounters there are indolent and lazy, waste their money on booze, and dont save money like Europeans. He also compares the racial purity of the blacks in Caracas to the Portuguese. However, these lines are always deceptively and disingenuously culled from the larger historical context of his later life so what is the truth?
That quote was written by Guevara in 1952 when he was 24 and encountered blacks for basically the first time in his life, during his Motorcycle trip around South America (as told in his memoir The Motorcycle Diaries). ** The full context of this statement is addressed by biographer Jon Lee Anderson on page 92 of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, and Anderson notes they were stereotypical of white Argentine arrogance and condescension. ** However, months later at the end of his continental trip, Guevara announced himself a transformed man and even denounced the racism he encountered while living in Miami, USA for a month, while awaiting his return to Argentina. Essentially, the quote was before he was Che, in both literal nickname and political beliefs.
From then on and throughout his life, Che showed he was ANTI-RACIST through his ACTIONS:
The following year in 1953, while travelling through Bolivia with his friend Carlos Calica Ferrer, Guevara became indignant when he observed that all the dark-skinned indigenous Indians had to be sprayed with DDT (ostensibly to kill lice) before being allowed to enter the Ministry of Peasant Affairs.
Ches very first student in 1957 as a guerrilla fighter was a 45-year-old illiterate black guajiro named Julio Zenon Acosta, whom he was teaching the alphabet. After Acosta was killed in an ambush by Batistas forces, Che exalted him as my first pupil and the kind of noble peasant that made up the heart of the Cuban Revolution.
During the Cuban guerrilla campaign, Ches girlfriend (for all intents and purposes) for the first half of 1958 was Zoila Rodríguez García, a black/mulatto woman. Moreover, his first wife Hilda Gadea whom he married in 1955 was a dark-skinned indigenous Peruvian.
In 1959, Che pushed for racially integrating the schools and universities in Cuba, years before they were racially integrated in the southern United States. For context, the Alabama National Guard was needed to force Governor George Wallace aside at the University of Alabama in 1963 and forced school busing wasnt enacted in the U.S. until 1971.
http://anti-imperialism.com/2014/02/05/debunking-the-che-guevara-was-racist-lie/
malthaussen
(17,219 posts)Other commies, not so much.
-- Mal
underpants
(182,970 posts)Funny that
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)BlueState
(642 posts)Thanks for posting. A picture is worth a thousand words and this qualifies for 4000 at least.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)connecticut yankee
(1,728 posts)the plural of "doofus?"
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)King_Klonopin
(1,307 posts)MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)red dog 1
(27,889 posts)I can't remember which book I read this in (it was a long time ago) but the story goes that CIA offficer "Max Gomez" aka "Felix Rodrigues" claims that the CIA "wanted Che Guevara taken alive" but that he was killed anyway by anti-Castro Cubans.
Felix Rodriguez aka Max Gomez aka "El Gato" was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra scandal.
He claimed that "Che Guevara gave me his watch before he died."
(Yeah, right!)
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)Jeb Bartlet
(141 posts)they're not outraged that their candidate lavishly praises the former head of the KGB during the Soviet Union. I guess when all you want to do is insult and denigrate the black President any lame excuse will do. Gonna so enjoy watching the pos GOP go down in flames this year. F them all.
pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)texasleo
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dae
(3,396 posts)progressoid
(50,008 posts)PBass
(1,537 posts)Hat tip to balloon-juice.com.
https://twitter.com/dick_nixon/status/712031657994428416/photo/1
ffr
(22,676 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Hereiam2005
(23 posts)Just saying ...
keithbvadu2
(36,992 posts)Maybe even SS troops?
Did the right wing explode over that?