And the pot is calling the kettle what?

So President Obama visited Cuba and had the audacity to criticize the Cuban government about its treatment of political prisoners and Cubans of African descent.

Huh?

On what planet?

Considering what the US has done to Cuba, Central America, and South America over the  years.

Some background on Cuba: Its population is about 66% African and mixed race.

Its leadership is about 70% white.

It has universal health care, a literacy rate of 99% according to the UN.

Does t have problems? Yes it does.

Some questions about the flagship of democracy – the United States:

What percentage of Americans are of African descent?

How many of them live in poverty?

How many of them go to sub standard schools? (Ones that you would not want to go to? Leaky roofs, outdated library materials, dilapidated gym, no art or music classes, etc.)

How many of them are literate and performing at an age appropriate grade level?

What percentage of them are going to wind up in the prison /criminal injustice system before they die?

How many are on death row or have been executed and later found to be innocent?

How many people of African-American descent are gunned down by the police every year?

(I hear it all the time about black on black crime. How many whites get gunned down by police every year?)

How many African Americans are living in poverty and don't have enough food to eat?

Or have access to any form of medical care – be it a physician or dentist – when they need it?

Or – better yet – use it for preventive care: annual physicals and 6 month dental check-ups?

How many unemployed African Americans are there in this country?

Or underemployed – they are working in a menial job and yet with the correct training they could be managing a business, be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc?

How many African Americans are are in government? Congress? On the Supreme Court?

How many are denied the right to vote because they lack the proper ID? Or they have a criminal background? Or have a name that is similar to someone that has a criminal background?

(Read Greg Palast about this. Robert Kennedy Jr collaborates with Greg on this issue.)

Let's talk about political prisoners.

Let's talk about: Mumia Abul Jamal.

Let's talk about the Black Panther Party.

Let's talk about the Angola Three (and the others that are not in the news).

Let's talk about Leonard Peltier.

Let's talk about the American Indian Movement & the rights of First Nations peoples.

Let's talk about CointelPro – the FBI surveillance program that began back in the 1920's under J Edgar Hoover and continued to spy (illegally) on Americans until its cover was blown in the 1970's. It was replaced by the NSA, which gathers up more information on Americans than the KGB did.

Who lives in a police state and is denied their rights?

A little clarification here please?

And then there is the media – broadcast and print.

I see nothing about the 3^rd parties in any of the American media – Nothing on the Green Party, various socialist parties, or even the Libertarian or Constitution parties (both right wing organizations. The Libertarian party has the Koch family as founders. Finding it too difficult to build an insurgent party, they turned around and bought the Republican Party instead.)

Isn't it the job of the media to inform us of all our choices, not decide what they want us to know and then misrepresenting that to us? (Read up on FAIR and Project Censored.)

So, President Obama went to Cuba and criticized the country for what?

This is a picture perfect case of the pot calling the kettle black.

And we sent the perfect spokesperson to do it.