Colin Kaepernick - Taking Ignorance To New Heights By Glorifying Fidel Castro, The Biggest Oppressor Of Blacks

Yesterday, my post was about Colin Kaepernick and what an unpatriotic, hypocritical idiot he is for refusing to stand during the National Anthem. Here is the link in case you'd like to read it. But when I wrote that post, I totally missed the bigger picture - not only is Kaepernick an unpatriotic, hypocritical idiot, he is also an ignorant, clueless dog turd.

You might say that I'm being a bit harsh on poor C-Kap. But what would you call a guy who claims that he's refusing to stand for our National Anthem to protest, "...a country that oppresses black people and people of color...." and then wears a T-shirt that deifies a man who has made oppression a cornerstone of his existence? I'm talking about Fidel Castro and his puppet regime in Cuba.

During a press conference with Kaepernick following his refusal to stand for the National Anthem, K-Dork showed up wearing a T-shirt with several images of Castro that implicitly sent a message of support for one of the worst abusers of human rights the world has ever known.

The shirt Kaepernick wore commemorates a 1961 meeting between Fidel Castro and Malcolm X and includes several images from the meeting.

Aside from the systemic racial oppression undertaken by Castro and his regime since it came into power in 1959, aside from the torture and murder of thousands of people who have disagreed with Castro, and aside from the racist policies that the Castro government embraces, how imbecilic is it for Kaepernick to honor someone like Castro who would never allow Kaepernick to voice his opinions about oppression (or anything else, for that matter)?

I mean, can you possibly be any stupider, Colin? Seriously, were you dropped on your head as a child, or have you taken one hit too many to the old noggin during your football career? You pay tribute to a mass murderer, an enslaver of his own people, a guy who wouldn't think twice about putting a cap in your whiny behind if you dared not stand for the Cuban National Anthem were you an athlete in Cuba?

Karma meets Che Guevara....

Colin, in your unbridled stupidity, you are paying tribute to a guy who thinks people like you are subhuman. If you doubt me, just take a gander at what Castro's BFF Ernesto "Che" Guevara once wrote about blacks:

“The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”

After the revolution in 1959, Che was quoted as follows, "We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing."

And these are the people you idolize, Colin? You are some piece of work, my man. You are just another in a long line of ignorant celebrity cliches' who don't know jack squat about which way is up but nevertheless feel compelled to prove their ignorance.

Let me take you to school a bit more, Kappy. The Cuban government has committed egregious, systematic human rights violations since the 1959 revolution and has never looked back. We'll never really know just how many people have been murdered, imprisoned, tortured, exiled, arrested, or suffered other human rights abuses by Castro and his government because of the secrecy that shrouds it. Human Rights Watch has estimated that by early 1961, Castro had executed some 2,000 Cubans. By 1970, the number exceeded 5,000.

Selma, Alabama? Nope. Havana, Cuba.

In a 1965 speech, Castro admitted that there were 20,000 political prisoners in Cuba. You would have made number 20,001 if you had dared show your ass like you did the other day before the start of your preseason football game.

Oh, and you want to talk about racism, you uneducated dweeb? Racism is rampant in Cuba and it's far worse than anything your little pea brain could fathom. State posts, government jobs, or positions in the tourism industry are allocated strictly on the basis of skin color. Let me put that in words you might understand. It means whites get the plum jobs.

Take a look at who surrounded Fidel when he came into power (above). Then take a look at the folks Raul Castro surrounds himself with in  positions of authority within the government (right). Do you see any black faces? I didn't think so.

Not only do blacks lack a place at the government table, they also get the short end of the stick when it comes to economic opportunity.

The tourist industry is the most profitable sector in Cuba because tourists use foreign currency (Cuban currency is worthless). When tourists shell out dough, they do it with dollars, euros, pounds, etc., not pesos. Those currencies are like gold and only whites and upper class folks have any chance of scoring some of that loot.

Why? Because the tourist industry has the greatest racial disparity when it comes to employment opportunities. Blacks hold only five percent of jobs in the tourist sector. Tourist resorts hire only whites because those in charge believe that whites are superior to blacks when it comes to dealing with foreign tourists. So, backs are systematically excluded from having access to the only money worth having.

I understand you've become a recent sympathizer with the Black Lives Matter movement. Their cause is what has prompted you to sit during the National Anthem. Black Lives Matter representatives recently traveled to Cuba, and like you, they naively thought that Castro was the big white color blind grandfather who did away with all racism and bigotry once he assumed power.

Guess what, Colin? What they found was not the fairy tale nirvana they expected in terms of racism, bigotry, and oppression of people of color. Here's an excerpt from the blog post that followed their visit to Cuba:

"[M]ost white Cubans we met did not like to talk about or admit that racism even exists in Cuba. But you can use your eyes to see. Black Cubans do not have access to economic liberty in the same way that white Cubans do. This can especially be seen in the booming tourism industry in Cuba where economist and labor leaders told us that many Cuban businesses are owned and ran primarily by white Cubans. Much like in the U.S. for Black Americans, it is more common to see Black Cubans behind the scenes– in the kitchen as cleaners rather than servers, as performers rather than managers.

For many of us Black folx on the trip, the non Black Cubans’ approach to racial discrimination felt very similar to #AllLivesMatter, a dismissive response to the urgency and need for #BlackLivesMatter in the U.S. It felt silencing and hurtful. Especially when one Cuban government economist claimed that “institutional racism does not exist in Cuba,” only racism on the individual level, therefore making it a problem that cannot be solved by the State.

Especially when we Black Brigadistas experienced and witnessed racism in Cuba and in our own group. Our last night in Cuba, for example, Shannon was approached by two light-skinned Cuban men and aggressively implored to bleach her skin “in order to be prettier” after spending two weeks in a country where race was treated as a second-thought. This triggering incident made us think- if this happened to just one of us, how many dark-skinned Cuban girls are growing up with this type of violent messaging about their place in the world?"

Feeling really, really stupid yet, Colin? Is all that egg on your face making it hard for you to see, you intellectually devoid stooge?

I'm not done with you yet, Twiddle Dee. As if the foregoing weren't bad enough, the black population in Cuba is woefully in the minority at universities and in other spheres of economic power. By the same token, it is in the overwhelming majority in the underground economy, in the criminal sphere, and in the poorest of neighborhoods.

An arrest in the U.S.? Nope. An arrest in Havana, Cuba.

In 2005, 73 percent of Cuban scientists and technicians were white. 80 percent of professors at the University of Havana were white. These numbers hold for the rest of the country and across the board in virtually all segments of upper class occupations.

Blacks and people of color? They are unemployed at double the rate of whites. And 85% of those in Cuban jails are darker-skinned Cubans.

How's that for oppression of blacks and the people of color you are apparently so dedicated to championing, Colin?

Civil liberties in Havana? You have no civil rights including the right to be free from unlawful search or seizure.

You want to talk about police abuses? Let's talk, Colin. Cuba has a version of our stop-and-frisk police power but it's not applied even handedly. You think blacks are singled out by the police in the U.S.? In Cuba, blacks are routinely stopped on streets at far higher rates than whites. "The term that was used by the police force to refer to citizens who weren’t white was 'ciudadano con characteristicas', or 'citizen with characteristics,'"Cuban writer Alexis Romay explained in a rare, uncensored interview. "If you were walking around with a group of friends and the friends were a mixed variety of races -  white guys, mixed race guys, and black guys — when the police stopped you, only citizens with characteristics would have to hand over their IDs."

How's that for disparate police treatment, you stupid box of rocks?

You want to see what life is like for blacks in Cuba? Here you go Colin. The first image is a swimming pool built by the Castro government exclusively for tourists to use.  The other two images are the pools where black Cuban children swim.

Those kids wouldn't be allowed to get within 100 yards of the pool in the first image, Kap Man.

Below is a typical store where Cubans can shop.

Here's a shop where only tourists are allowed to enter.

Not exactly the same inventory, huh Colin?

Last but certainly not least, Colin, were you aware that Castro and his regime routinely partake in a system of slavery, even today? Workers are shipped all over the world against their will, and if they refuse to go they can't work in Cuba because the government controls all employment. Foreign countries pay Castro a hefty sum for each doctor, engineer, or worker that is shipped off to do the work that locals refuse to do in other countries because it is either in remote areas or high crime areas. These countries pay Castro directly and he in turn pays the slave workers a small percentage of what he receives. All employment contracts are signed between Castro and the countries where the slaves are going to work, guaranteeing that he and only he controls the money.

Well, C-Kap, that's your world civics lesson for the day. Next time you decide to make a fashion statement, make sure your head isn't where you normally park it. Remove it from your rear end and get a whiff of that fresh air. You might actually see the world for what it is.

I knew you were a hypocritical, unpatriotic idiot for refusing to honor a flag for which countless, brave whites, blacks, and persons of color died. Now I also know that you're nothing but a jackass for claiming to protest oppression while at the same time ignorantly glorifying it. You were trying so hard to be so avante garde, so chic, so hip by wearing a T-shirt featuring Fidel Castro all you did was show your ass.

But what could I have possibly expected from a clueless dip wad like you?