Outreach to Cuba

 The NAACP’s recent successful effort to establish trade links with Cuba deserves accolades from Black America. It’s a signal that traditional civil rights leadership recognizes that we are a global people and should not restrict ourselves to doing business only within the confines of the United States, limiting ourselves to transactions with White-owned businesses or begging for the crumbs thrown to our communities by multi-national corporations. Neither of these groups is interested in seeing Black people in America liberated economically, politically or spiritually.

Blacks met with President Fidel Castro, members of his government and even members of the opposition party.

Pres. Castro–well known for his efforts in the liberation struggle of oppressed peoples but also in the interest of feeding his people



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