Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
It makes me wonder why it matters to you, since you have never watched a football game, or cared about it, or even heard of this whole thing until i mentioned it.


It matters because stopping police brutality and other forms on institutionalized racism matters.

Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
. . . And you lost me at Fidel Castro was an improvement.


It was just interesting that you compared him to Hitler. I agree that Castro came down too hard on too many of his country's people. But we could say the same thing about Abraham Lincoln. Sherman's march to the sea was no May Day parade.

So: Castro = Hitler? The US and Nazi Germany have been guilty of slavery and genocide. Castro's Cuba hasn't.

Meanwhile the standard of living and life expectancy of working-class Cubans got better when Batista was driven out. That's why I used the word improvement. Batista - a friend of big business and organized crime and enemy of trade unionists and civil rights advocates - had a lot more in common with Hitler than Castro did.

Last edited by Delmont; 09/25/18 09:08 AM.