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| 30 years ago the Jazz was still "an instrument of the U.S. imperialism" in Castro's Cuba, together with other "capitalist" music genres. In the picture, the Jazz Band Sagua from the 1920s, one of the first Cuban Jazz Bands |
Multi-Grammy winner
Wynton Marsalis, who serves as artistic director for jazz at the Lincoln
Center, also serves as an official "United Nations Messenger of Peace."
On Martin Luther King Day 2006, Mr Marsalis addressed Tulane
University, quoting Dr King's words and hailing his deeds. "Dr. King's
actions made his dream our reality," Marsalis beamed.
In
2004 The Lincoln Center, with Wynton Marsalis as top act, held a
concert titled the "Celebration of Human Rights and Social Justice."
Wynton
Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra spent all of last
week as a grateful guest of a Stalinist/Apartheid regime that murdered
more political prisoners in its first three years in power than Hitler's
murdered in its first six and that jailed political prisoners at a
higher rate than Stalin. Among these victims were the longest-suffering
black political prisoners in modern history. Within walking distance of
where Wynton Marsalis and his Lincoln Center jazz luminaries hob-knobbed
with Castro officials at Havana's Teatro Mella,
black political prisoners were being tortured for the crime of publicly
quoting the works of Marin Luther King and the UN Declaration of Human
Rights. Among these prisoners is Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet,
an Amnesty international prisoner of conscience who was awarded
(obviously in absentia) The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President
Bush in 2008.
Many
Cuban blacks suffered longer incarceration in Castro's dungeons and
torture chambers than Nelson Mandela suffered in South Africa's. In
fact, they qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in
modern history. Eusebio Penalver, Ignacio Cuesta Valle, Antonio Lopez
Munoz, Ricardo Valdes Cancio and many other Cuban blacks suffered almost
30 years in Castro's prisons. These men were bloodied in their fight
against the Lincoln Center's partners but remained unbowed for almost 30
years in its dungeons. Castro's KGB-trained torturers called these
black prisoners "plantados" -- defiant ones, unbreakable ones.
"Stalin tortured," wrote Arthur Koestler, "not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction."
"The worst part of Communism," wrote Solzhenitsyn, "is being forced to live a lie."
These
Cuban blacks refused to collude in this lie. They spit in the face of
Wynton Marsalis' hosts. They scorned any "re-education" by the Lincoln
Center's Stalinist partners. They knew it was they who
desperately needed it. They refused to wear the uniform of common
criminals. They knew it was Marsalis' hosts who should don them. Charles
Rangel, Jesse Jackson, Danny Glover, Jeremiah Wright and the
Congressional Black Caucus all toast the Stalinist torturer, and the
Lincoln Center seems delighted with his partnership, but many of the
Blacks cursed by fate to live under Fidel Castro stood tall, proud and
defiant against his regime's tortures.
Shortly
before the former Cuban political prisoner's death in 2006, this writer
had the honor of interviewing Eusebio Penalver. "For months I was naked
in a 6 x 4 foot cell," Eusebio recalled. "That's 4 feet high, so you
couldn't stand. But I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to
commit spiritual suicide." Sr Penalver served several months of this 30
year sentence naked in a "punishment cell" barely big enough to stand
in, where he languished naked and in complete darkness.
"N**ger!"
taunted his jailers between tortures. "We pulled you down from the
trees and cut off your tail!" "Castro's apologists, those who excuse or
downplay his crimes," said Mr Penalver. "These people be they ignorant,
stupid, mendacious whatever--they are accomplices in the bloody
tyrant's crimes, accomplices in the most brutal and murderous regime in
the hemisphere."
But
have you ever heard of Eusebio Penalver or any of the other black Cuban
heroes? Ever see a CNN interview with them? Ever see any of them on
"60 Minutes"? Ever read about them in The New York Times? The Washington
Post? Ever hear them on NPR during Black History Month? Ever seen
anything on them on the History Channel or A&E? Ever hear the NAACP
or Congressional Black Caucus mention him?
Why do I bother asking? They were victims of the Left's premier pin-up boys, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. 'Nuff said.
Only six months before the Castroites invited Wynton Marsalis, they murdered Black human rights activist Orlando Zapata Tamayo.
This black Cuban had endured an 83-day hunger strike seeking (vainly,
as usual) to alert the world to the Castro regime's cowardly Stalinism
and racism. Then in February of this year a series of savage beatings by
his Communist jailers finished him off. Naturally the MSM was no more
revelatory of his death than they'd been of his jailing or hunger
strike.
Samizdats smuggled
out of Cuba by eye-witnesses report that while gleefully kicking and
bludgeoning Tamayo, his Castroite jailers yelled: "Worthless Ni**er!"
Today
the prison population in Stalinist/Apartheid Cuba is 80% black while
only 9% of the ruling Stalinist party is black. Many of a certain age
well remember many of Wynton Marsalis' musical colleagues mounting a
campaign called "Artists United Against Apartheid," aimed at boycotting
South Africa, reviling any musicians who played there, and showcasing
the human rights abuses suffered by South African Blacks.
Should we hold our breath for the same bunch to organize, "Artists United Against Castro-Stalinism?"
To
top it all, for this heart-warming "Cultural Exchange" the Lincoln
Center partnered with Castro's Secret Police. Leftists, kindly stifle
the shrieks of "Mc Carthyism at American Thinker!" and instead read the
following :
Here's
the Wall Street Journal's report on this "Cultural Exchange" with
Stalinist Cuba: "(Wynton Marsalis') invitation came under the auspices
of the Cuban Institute of Music, an agency of the Cuban Ministry of Culture."
Now here's what Cuban Intelligence defector Jesus Perez-Mendes, during a de-briefing in 1983, disclosed to the FBI about the Cuban Ministry of Culture: "the Circulo de Cultura Cubana (Cuban Ministry of Culture) is controlled by the Cuban DGI (Castro's KGB -trained Directorio General de Intelligencia.)
By Humberto Fontova
From: American Thinker
Check this video for more information about Castro's regime:
Cuba: Winds of Change, Part 1
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