The Castro regime's outright racism draws no attention from the liberal-minded human rights defenders in the views. Those who were the first to decry (and rightfully so), South Africa's apartheid regime see no reason to raise alarms over Cuba's isolation and exclusion of Afro-Cubans, a narrative that challenges the "conventional wisdom" of equality for all in this Communist paradise. Same people, I'm sure, still believe in the fairy tale of Cuba's "superior" free medical care, oddly accessible only to the top echelons of the regime at the level that goes beyond Potemkin villages presented for tourists, or its "exceptional" free education, which somehow has failed to eradicate the vast poverty in which most Cuban citizens find themselves.
There are no Black Lives Matter demonstrations for the miserable status of the Afro-Cuban, and the staunch defenders of "normalization", two years in, have no comment about the failure to improve the condition of most people, particularly Afro-Cubans, in any perceptible way. Were they so naive as to think that cronyist support of investments into the regime would somehow translate into human rights? Or were they so ideologically married to their support of the Obama administration that the nature of the actual policy and its ramification was irrelevant? If so, some of these "human rights activists" are even more cynical and soulless than I thought.
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