Uppity-Negro.com

But reprinted in San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year. Don't read Final Call myself, and am a bit hesitant about even linking the site (although I have done in the past, if I remember a'right). Not sure why. The tourists already know how much I hate all white people, follow in lockstep with the Nation of Domination and Al Sharpton, blah de blah de blah.

Sorry, lost the train of thought there. From exile with love, part 1 -- Former Black Panther Assata Shakur speaks to America from Cuba:

Assata Shakur is a Black American folk hero. She is a freedom fighter who escaped the chains of oppression. She made it to the other side. She is a sister who defied the definitions of expected behavior by a Black woman.

Her life is the subject of books, movies and poetry. In her own words, she speaks on Cuba and terrorism, differences between Blacks in Cuba and the U.S., living in exile and her hopes for a new world:

"When I was in the Black Panther Party, they called us terrorists. How dare they call us terrorists when we were being terrorized. Terror was a constant part of my life. I was living under apartheid in North Carolina. We lived under police terror.

"People have to see what's really happening. Cuba has never attacked anybody. Cuba has solidarity with other countries. They send teachers and doctors to help the people of other countries. It (Cuba) believes in solidarity.

"To see Cuba called a terrorist country is an insult to reality. If people come to Cuba, they'll see a reality unlike what they're told in America. This country wants to help, not hurt. The U.S. government has lied to its people. The U.S. government invents lies like Cuba is a terrorist country to give a pretext to destroy it."

And since this may not be enough reason for folks to get their hate on, Cuba in the Cross-Hairs: A Near Half-Century of Terror, by arch-villain Noam Chomsky:

Cuban offers to cooperate in intelligence-sharing to prevent terrorist attacks have been rejected by Washington, though some did lead to US actions. "Senior members of the FBI visited Cuba in 1998 to meet their Cuban counterparts, who gave [the FBI] dossiers about what they suggested was a Miami-based terrorist network: information which had been compiled in part by Cubans who had infiltrated exile groups." Three months later the FBI arrested Cubans who had infiltrated the US-based terrorist groups. Five were sentenced to long terms in prison.

The national security pretext lost whatever shreds of credibility it might have had after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, though it was not until 1998 that US intelligence officially informed the country that Cuba no longer posed a threat to US national security. The Clinton administration, however, insisted that the military threat posed by Cuba be reduced to "negligible," but not completely removed. Even with this qualification, the intelligence assessment eliminated a danger that had been identified by the Mexican ambassador in 1961, when he rejected JFK's attempt to organize collective action against Cuba on the grounds that "if we publicly declare that Cuba is a threat to our security, forty million Mexicans will die laughing."

Opinions expressed in quoted material are not necessarily those of Aaron Hawkins, Uppity-Negro.com or any of its subsidiaries.

Probably.