A Worldwide Battle of Life and Death. Part I  
Alberto N. Jones
December 25, 2009

December 1, 2009, will be recorded in the annals of Black History as the day in which, a 15-20 year old well conceived, structured and financed plot to weaken, corrode and divide Africans and their descendants around the world, erupted on the world scene as a powerful volcano, whose devastating lava and toxic fumes are permeating, antagonizing and vaporizing our tenuous unity.

Having tried and evidently failed in my efforts to pre-empt this catastrophe since it was first detected, I am left wondering, if I did all I could have, if my approach was the right one or if my abilities were overwhelmed by a lack of knowledge in the field of Humanities.

My greatest fear then and now, is that the prime objective of this divisive tool was not what was prominently displayed across the writings, speeches, conferences, interviews and other means used by Dr. Carlos Moore to attack Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution but rather, to create an appropriate environment and introduce a wedge that would force Blacks around the world to take sides and fight this internecine war.

Confirming this assumption is the fact, that two weeks after this annihilating venom has been raging in cyberspace through e-mails, twitter, face book and every other means of modern day communication, Whites interested in this matter in the US and Cuba have remained unaware and/or conspicuously above the fray.

Let me help readers of this very complex issue identify all parties that are involved, by pointing an accusing finger at everyone, whose voluntary or involuntary actions may have contributed to bring us to this extremely dangerous juncture.

(a) The Cuban Solidarity Movement in the US, (b) the United States Government, © anti-Cuba Blacks groups around the world and (d) the Cuban Government, who stands violently accused of blatant racism in Cuba as denounced in Acting On Our Conscience.

a.- The Cuban Solidarity Movement in the United States is primarily White and it has strongly supported the Cuban Government based mostly on events which have taken place since 1959, its impressive social programs, international solidarity, health and education development, but to a great extent, with a limited awareness of the 500 years legacy of slavery, racism, segregation and inequalities in Cuba.

b.- For the past fifty years, ten different administrations of the United States Government has led, supported, financed, directed and overseen the most brutal political, military, terror, diversionist and demonizing war of attrition against Cuba, which have caused unquantifiable pain, suffering, deaths, the wicked kidnapping of thousands of Peter Pans, a spurious Family Adjustment Act, invasions, sabotage, hundreds of assassinations and the harboring of convicted terrorists, all in the name of Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Free Enterprise and Religious Freedom.

Even our affable, popular Afro-American President Barack Obama has introduced minimal changes in the chronic US-CUBA dispute as promised during his electoral campaign, while all aggressive, destabilizing measures remains firmly in place, as it has been proven recently with a roaming “Contractor” incarcerated in Cuba, for donating innocuous communication equipment to ordinary Cubans he casually ran into on city streets.

c.- In order to clearly comprehend the origin, rise and development of anti-Cuba Black groups around the world, it will be necessary to go back to the summer of 1980 when I arrived in the United States, as part of the Mariel boatlift.

Racism was raging in Miami, where they coined the derogatory term Marielitos, which was synonymous with being illiterate, black, thief, murderer, drug addict, prostitute and/or criminal.

Newspapers articles and AM Radio Talk shows in Miami said openly, “These people don’t even look like Cubans anymore”, meaning, the generalized perception created as of 1959 that Cuba was a lily white, rich, real estate magnate community living in mansions, driving Cadillac’s, beachfront properties, a predominantly catholic, God fearing population, who did not have a drop of black blood in their bodies and who equated Afro-Cuban religion with Voodoo.

The Afro-American community in Miami had traditionally dominated the housekeeping industry in Hotels and resorts in Miami Beach. Newly arrived Cubans, supported by a number of US government and Catholic grants, enabled them to rise quickly to leadership positions, from where, Afro-Americans were massively displaced from their jobs, pushed into welfare and turned their neighborhoods into today’s ghetto’s.

This simple act created a monumental resentment amongst Afro-Americans against Cubans, who they labeled as Caribbean Jews, which was further compounded by an influx of Cubans into the Miami-Dade Police Department, from where they exerted a near sadistic violence against Afro-Americans.

This crisis reached its peak in 1981, when ex-Marine, Viet Nam veteran and businessman Arthur McDuffe was murdered by officer Alex Marrero and three others, who busted open his skull with their night sticks, were convicted and later acquitted by an all-white jury. This lead to the massive riots in Liberty City, Overtown and Black Grove against 3,600 National Guards, armored vehicles and heavy weaponry, which caused 13 deaths, 150 wounded and more than 100 million dollars in damages.

In 1989, officer William Lozano and three others, shot and murdered Clement Lloyd and Allan Blanchard during a traffic stop incident and again, they were shamefully acquitted, which lead to another massive 4 days riot in the same neighborhoods, causing 16 dead. 300 wounded and millions of dollars in material loss.

These and tens of daily Human Rights violations in the Afro-American community lead Mr. Garth Reeves, publisher of the Miami Times with a daily circulation of over 27,000 to exclaim at an arbitrary traffic stop: “You are not going to have real peace in this town, as long as Black people feel Hispanic officers have hunter’s right on their lives”.

Through willful denial of the existence of Blacks in Cuba, this fallacy got imprinted in the minds of Cuban-Americans to the extent that any Afro-Cuban sitting in a Restaurant or Cafeteria in Miami placing an order in Spanish, will be answered in English for the next 2-3 attempts, until the waitress resets her mental computer and as a rule of thumb ask innocently, are you Panamanian, since being Black and speaking Spanish, the customer ought to be from somewhere else, except Cuba?

Afro-Cubans in Miami have had to endure 40 years of double segregation, since most rental application in middle or working class Hialeah neighborhoods are systematically rejected by landlords, forcing most to move to Allapath, Liberty City or Overtown, where they are not a welcome neighbor, because of their Cuban background.

The owner of the Bookstore on 7th St. in Liberty City, is a dynamic community organizer, who works tirelessly to clean up the environment, create cultural, social and education events, geared to improve the awareness of its people. I was asked by him in around the year 2002, if I would be willing to talk at one of their Sunday evening gathering.

I arrived 15 minutes ahead of time and was warmly greeted by 50-60 people gathered there, who immediately began referring to me as Brother Jones this and Brother Jones that. My heavy accent apparently led most to believe I was of Jamaican background. Halfway through my talk about the importance of education, I began sharing my experience with the Cuban educational system.

I noticed most in the audience suddenly became sulky, stiff in their seats and instead of changing the subject, I foolishly went on and on referring to Cuba, which brought the Jones brotherhood to an abrupt end and having to endure an endless diatribe about the wickedness of Cubans, the devastation they brought to their community and their vicious racism.

Confirming beyond any doubt the engrained racism that permeated Miami, is reflected in the statements of the late Jorge Mas Canosa, Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation and I quote: “When Americans see a Black person attached to an issue or cause, all they (Americans) see is welfare, poverty, hopelessness, illiteracy and crime; the cause become diminished. In order to make our program (CANF‘s) successful we must keep those black face in the dark. If we have to bring them in, let’s do so, when there are no cameras”, end of quote.

In the late 80’s Blacks were being blamed openly in Miami for keeping Fidel Castro in power because of their disproportionate presence in the Cuban Army and as his bodyguard. Armando Perez-Roura, director of Radio Mambi 710 AM and the late Agustin Tamargo, director of La Mesa Revuelta, openly requested a three days License upon the collapse of the Cuban Government, to dole out retribution to Afro-Cubans for their past deeds.

The crisis of the Balseros in 1994 brought 35,000 Cuban immigrants to south Florida, with a notable increase in the presence of Blacks, which lead numerous Think Tank groups in the US to carry out a number of demographic studies in Cuba, through which they determined, a substantial shift in favor of Afro-Cubans and mixed race, which some placed as high as 62%.

These findings introduced a radical change in all counterrevolutionary groups thinking in the United States, where Blacks had been shunned historically, they now found themselves actively recruiting every Afro-Cuban they could get their hands on, hoping to promote them to front desk activities and leadership positions.

Emergent leadership academies were created under the guidance of many Human Rights and Civil Rights Afro-Americans organizations and some historical Black Universities, which pumped out a number of graduates, who in turn, were charged with fomenting groups of Afro-Cubans inside Cuba under the cover of Independent Librarians, Independent Journalists, Independent Medical Care, Independent everything else.

Under the watchful eye of notorious CIA operative, Frank Calzon, director of the Free Cuba Foundation, Whites in leadership positions within counterrevolutionary groups were placed on the back burner, seldom referred to and their press releases, statements and other activities went frequently ignored.

In order to be covered, interviewed or written about, a heavy dose of melanin skin content became a pre-condition. Names of Afro-Cubans coming out of nowhere became celebrities. Glossy magazines were handed out for free, documentaries about every black issues was readily funded, music and book festivals were organized, seminars, conferences and symposiums became too many to be attended, as thousands of fax machines, computers, shortwave radios, DVD and cell phones were handed-out in Cuba as hot bread.

Until now, Paya, San Roman, Roque-Cabello and other darlings within the Cuban dissidents family with low melanin content, were quietly pushed aside, off the front page and replaced by Dr. Biscet, Antunez, Roca, Dr. Ferrer and others; Black enough to fulfill the new strategy.

Large sums of US-AID monies went to Radio and TV Marti, who in turn, purchased hundreds of hours of air time on a number of Radio and TV stations in Miami and the Caribbean, capable of reaching Cuba. Setting up of satellite dishes in Cuba was strongly encouraged and all sort of literature depicting rich and famous blacks, religious fundamentalism or double edged human rights literature, were spread across the country in truckloads.

In the summer of 1994, at the height of the special period with endless blackout, lack of food, medicine, clothing and all other basic means of survival, Cuba was hit with another exodus of over 35,000 people, airline highjackings, heighten instability and the first riot since 1959.

Thousands of impoverished, marginalized Blacks in Centro Havana neighborhood, rampaged violently along the Malecon (seawall waterfront), destroying vehicles, storefronts and chanting slogans against the status quo, until President Fidel Castro showed-up, spoke to crowd after which, they orderly returned to their homes.

In this highly charged environment, a failed attempt to highjack a ferry boat in the port of Havana to Miami, ended with three young black men captured, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death. This sad, regrettable and tragic outcome have since been presented by Ninoska Castellon from Radio Mambi in Miami and elsewhere, as the most graphic example of the pervasive racism of the Cuban government.

Comparative studies of the severe racial imbalance of the Cuban government and the high incidence of Blacks incarcerated, are also banners of their anti-racist drive in Cuba.

A key player in this multi-prong destabilizing campaign is, notorious CIA operative Frank Calzon, who received millions in taxpayer dollars which should have been disguised and disbursed through front foundations, most of which they kept for themselves in Miami, as it can be seen with his most senior aide Felix Sixto, now sitting in jail for stealing close to half a million dollars, as others like them await to be pick-up and hauled off to jail.

In a number of articles posted on Afrocubaweb, CubaNews@yahoogroups, The Cuban Nation, Cuba Journal, Daytona News Journal, The St. Augustine Record, Miami Herald, Havana Times and others, I have been forced to speak out and denounce this brutal attempt to split our country across race lines and sink it into a fratricidal strife.

In two international conferences organized by the Center For International Policy Washington D.C., in Miami 1989 and in Washington D.C. in 2001, Dr. Carlos Moore expressed publicly his conviction, that the irreconcilable differences existing between Blacks and Whites in Cuba, left no other alternative other than immediate secession, with Black living in the east, Whites in the west and no defined location for those of mixed race.

Other supporting evidence demonstrate without any doubt, that most of us should not be surprised by recent developments, which are an integral part of a grand scheme that have been fertilized, incubated and aborted by its own self destructive goals.

In two international conferences organized by the Center For International Policy Washington D.C., in Miami 1989 and in Washington D.C. in 2001, Dr. Carlos Moore expressed publicly his conviction, that the irreconcilable differences existing between Blacks and Whites in Cuba, left no other alternative other than immediate secession, with Black living in the east, Whites in the west and no defined location for those of mixed race.

Other supporting evidence demonstrates without any doubt, that most of us should not be surprised by recent developments, which are an integral part of a grand scheme that has been fertilized, incubated and aborted by its own self destructive goals.