CBC Members Snub Cuban Freedom Fighters

Excerpt from a hard-hitting critique of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in World Net Daily:

*It's important to note that not all CBC Members are sympathetic to the Castro regime. Some of them have been strong allies of Cuban freedom. Thus, it's never wise to generalize. However, the criticism of the seven Members below is fair.

In 2009, seven members of the CBC visited Fidel Castro. Not only were they full of praise for the tyrant – in that regard, they were hardly alone on the left – but they also refused to meet with any democratic dissidents, including Cuba's leading black dissenter.

As a Washington Post editorial noted at the time, "In five days on the island, the (CBC) Congress members found no time for dialogue with Afro-Cuban dissident Jorge Luis Garcia Perez... Mr. Garcia, better known as 'Antunez,' is a renowned advocate of human rights who has often been singled out for harsh treatment because of his color. 'The authorities in my country,' he has said, 'have never tolerated that a black person (could dare to) oppose the regime.'

"His wife, Iris, is a founder of the Rosa Parks Women's Civil Rights Movement, named after an American hero whom Afro-Cubans try to emulate."

As the snub of Cuba's leading black freedom fighters demonstrated, in a conflict between helping the left and helping blacks, the CBC chooses the left.