Committee for Racial Integration( CIR) recognizes in its statement on the International Day against Racial Discrimination: " Despite the racism in the United States, the modernizing and integrating trends impose decency in the field of politics, and send the strong message that we are definitely all the same(...) The others may no longer be the subordinate exotics." By deciding that racism and racial discrimination had ended, the Cuban government titled itself as champion in such a struggle and muted the debate on an unresolved issue after snatching the autonomy of the Afro Cubans, turning them into debtors of the Revolution that supposedly made us " people ", and ignoring both the history and the role of the African descendants in the nation-building process. Remember... What part of the history? For the Cuban government it would have been easier to deal with the visit of a high-class Anglo-Saxon American president, interested in restoring relations and lifting the embargo. The latter ultimately constitutes an obstacle to the American entrepreneurs seeking to do business in Cuba. That kind of president would represent the power in the hands of the white elite, the inability of African Americans to come to power. Because it is clear that the Cuban political elite wants normal relations that allows doing business with the U. S., but need to keep a belligerence face so that Cubans do not stop seeing the US government as the enemy. That’ s why the Cuban government does everything possible to reject the American president. The opinions published in the press are skeptical. Those who see these new relationships as positive, call to remain vigilant, to remember the past, against Obama’ s sound advice of stop being " hostages of the history ". Being hostages of history prevents us for moving forward, but forgetting it condemns us to repeat it. We must forget neither the politics of ripe fruit nor the embargo, which were not implemented to encourage the Cuban people. The question is what part of the history should be remembered according to the guidance of the Cuban government. The government and the media insist on Obama’ s responsibility for something implemented when he was just a child. He allegedly owes an apology to the Cuban people for the hardships that the embargo has caused for decades. However, neither the former president and eternal Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, nor the current President Raúl Castro, who during the presidency of his older brother was Minister of the Armed Forces, have apologized to the Cuban people, for instance, for the Military Units to Aid Production( Spanish acronym UMAP) in which homosexuals, religious, rockers, freaks and everyone considered deviant by the government were held; for the homosexuals, religious and all who were not in favor of the Revolution expelled from universities and workplaces; for having arrogated to themselves the right to decide what type of music Cubans could hear and what type of literature they could read( as if it were the price to pay for the Literacy Campaign and the universal access to education); for the acts of repudiation against those who dissented and left the country, and against the dissidents and opponents nowadays, although they are also part of the Cuban people; for all the human rights viola-
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