I have a crush on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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the chick literally in the gutter, well, on the gutter but whatever
 

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I mean :ehh: fair enough. Still she's going hard for the left for me to put her in the same category of the average Cuban in Florida or Sureno in Cali.
Going for the left/socialist agenda doesn’t mean she’s for black people. Conrad Leftist Sanders said Reperations “isn’t feasible”. Remember when “people of color” gets mentioned, that means everyone eats (including white women and 5 dollar Indians) except black people. That’s why we are demanding tangibles this elections and beyond. Say us by name and what they would do for us instead of minorities and POC bullshyt.
 

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Going for the left/socialist agenda doesn’t mean she’s for black people. Conrad Leftist Sanders said Reperations “isn’t feasible”. Remember when “people of color” gets mentioned, that means everyone eats (including white women and 5 dollar Indians) except black people. That’s why we are demanding tangibles this elections and beyond. Say us by name and what they would do for us instead of minorities and POC bullshyt.

Moving from capitalism to socialism would actually help eradicate systematic racism. One of the main pillars of white supremacy is capitalism. Malcom and others have preached this in the past. As an example, Assata Shakur has said that socialism has eradicated institutional racism in Cuba in an interview from her home in Cuba.

Assata Shakur The Interview

A charge one hears, even on the left, is that institutional racism still exists in Cuba. Is that true? Does one find racist patterns in allocation of housing, work, or the functions of criminal justice?

No. I don't think institutional racism, as such, exists in Cuba. But at the same time, people have their personal prejudices. Obviously these people, with these personal prejudices, must work somewhere, and must have some influence on the institutions they work in. But I think it's superficial to say racism is institutionalized in Cuba. I believe that there needs to be a constant campaign to educate people, sensitize people, and analyze racism. The fight against racism always has two levels; the level of politics and policy but also the level of individual consciousness. One of the things that influences ideas about race in Cuba is that the revolution happened in 1959, when the world had a very limited understanding of what racism was. During the 1960s, the world saw the black power movement, which I, for one, very much benefited from. You know "black is beautiful," exploring African art, literature, and culture. That process didn't really happen in Cuba. Over the years, the revolution accomplished so much that most people thought that meant the end of racism. For example, I'd say that more than 90 percent of black people with college degrees were able to do so because of the revolution. They were in a different historical place. The emphasis, for very good reasons, was on black-white unity and the survival of the revolution. So it's only now that people in the universities are looking into the politics of identity.
 
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Moving from capitalism to socialism would actually help eradicate systematic racism. One of the main pillars of white supremacy is capitalism. Malcom and others have preached this in the past. As an example, Assata Shakur has said that socialism has eradicated institutional racism in Cuba in an interview from her home in Cuba.

Assata Shakur The Interview

A charge one hears, even on the left, is that institutional racism still exists in Cuba. Is that true? Does one find racist patterns in allocation of housing, work, or the functions of criminal justice?

No. I don't think institutional racism, as such, exists in Cuba. But at the same time, people have their personal prejudices. Obviously these people, with these personal prejudices, must work somewhere, and must have some influence on the institutions they work in. But I think it's superficial to say racism is institutionalized in Cuba. I believe that there needs to be a constant campaign to educate people, sensitize people, and analyze racism. The fight against racism always has two levels; the level of politics and policy but also the level of individual consciousness. One of the things that influences ideas about race in Cuba is that the revolution happened in 1959, when the world had a very limited understanding of what racism was. During the 1960s, the world saw the black power movement, which I, for one, very much benefited from. You know "black is beautiful," exploring African art, literature, and culture. That process didn't really happen in Cuba. Over the years, the revolution accomplished so much that most people thought that meant the end of racism. For example, I'd say that more than 90 percent of black people with college degrees were able to do so because of the revolution. They were in a different historical place. The emphasis, for very good reasons, was on black-white unity and the survival of the revolution. So it's only now that people in the universities are looking into the politics of identity.

lol i don't know if that's serious or not
 
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