I know about his life (heck the whole book is autobiographical). My point is that he pointed out the twists and turns in the story of Cuba. RELAX.

And soon their bring their latest Tio Tomas out for show. I wonder if Rubio ever considers his tokenism?

You mess :P

I wouldn't say people "liked" Batista but I think much of the animosity against him was well-captured by Arenas in the quotation of his book I pasted above. The racializing that exists in the US and Canada obviously existed in Cuba as well. Castro was seen as the white knight until he started taking their shit.

I don't think most Americans would consider relations with Cuba to be a make or break issue for any candidate but their (Republican) hypocrisy is just mind-boggling. They only seem to care about Latinos whenever elections come around whilst during the off-season claiming skinny Mexicans are running across the border…

I just watched Light Girls the other day and so many of the women interviewed said they didn't feel black enough when around other black folks. It's this sort of whitewashing of their inherent darkness that makes many feel a sense of alienation from their communities. I don't understand why white America proclaims its…

Can we elect these children and their friends to every legislature in North America?

I am strange turned on by the cover.

The point is that your rights are baloney to them.

"It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel."

So I guess 'squad' is a dead term too now. Jesus, we can't come up with new words fast enough, it seems like.

Why doesn't someone do a rebooted version of Story of O? I haven't read this fifty shades of grey but the trailer seems pretty kitschy and very much a non-BDSM practitioner's view of a world she might not ever have visited.

I personally love goat. It's eaten in many African and W. Indian locales. Pretty sure it's also eaten in the Middle East.

I knew you were talking about language criteria. I was just enlightening you to what C1 means in Anglophonia.

living in the room at America's Best Value Inn near Menaul and University where the shooting occurred

Go talk to your people and do some work on that end.

Mr. Berdyaev lived in France for 25 years and was one the intellectuals expelled by the nascent Soviet government for his views (which they deemed to be against the ideals of the working class, whom they supposedly represented). Is C1 the same thing in France that it means in the UK? In the UK, if you're C1, you're…

To a black African, pretty much the same. The tongues can sounds the same in the ear of the benign African primitive. We lack the finesse to differentiate between sinaasappelsap and jus d'orange.

The span of modernity in France precedes you and your presence there but sure, your observations are more astute than a well-regarded philosopher. Just like your assumption about the content of French history courses was so true. Everyone knows every French pupil is taught God's Bits of Wood and other wonderful works…

"But what is the real cost to your soul and to your psyche?"