Our lived experience is with the American regime." Thandiwe Abdullah, a Black Lives Matter activist who wrote the first draft of the Cuba statement, told Newsweek a widely held belief within the organization, regardless of race, is that "As Americans, our job is not to talk about the Cuban government, we don't live in Cuba, we don't know the intricacies and nuances. Elmo's Village on Jin Los Angeles, California. After the BLM statement, a Miami Herald op-ed declared "Afro-Cuban lives don't matter to the shameful leaders of Black Lives Matter."Ĭo-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Youth Vanguard Thandiwe Abdullah attends 'Women's March Los Angeles hosts March For Our Lives LA: Road to Change & the Parkland survivors & activists' at St. Many Cuban-Americans who spoke with Newsweek reiterated their support for the group's central tenet that Black lives matter, while denouncing and distancing themselves from leaders of the organization who support socialism. embargo, which began in 1962, is "unethical," "insensitive," "tone-deaf" and "willfully ignorant." In it he states bluntly that to reduce Cuba's problems to simply the U.S. In the wake of the BLM statement, Laz Alonso, a Black actor of Cuban descent, released an Instagram video that has received more than 750,000 views. "What happened to George Floyd is happening to hundreds of people on the island," he told Newsweek. "But when it comes to Cuban suffering we see Black Lives Matter take the side of the oppressor, rather than the side of the oppressed." "My daughters and I, we believe wholeheartedly that Black Lives Matter and you shouldn't get the sh** kicked out of you by cops, and a 12-year-old shouldn't be shot because he has a toy gun," he said. "So many of us have marched at Black Lives Matter rallies," said filmmaker Tony Hernandez, whose parents fled Cuba on freedom flights in 1967, and who has made ads for Democrats. People hold Cuban flags and placards during a protest showing support for Cubans demonstrating against their government, in Miami, Florida on July 16, 2021.
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