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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (61324)	10/18/2004 4:37:34 PM
From: Gary Walker	Respond to of 89467

>>CUBA LOL, it's such a great place that people risk their lives sailing in bath tubs to Miami. Here's a suggestion for you Ralph: If you think Cuba is so great then why not move to N. Korea? I hear they have beautiful winters. Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers from the 60's was forced to flee to Algeria; a socialist-state with close ties to Marxist states. Cleaver was "wined and dined" by many Communist and Socialist states; including the Soviet Union and Cuba. However, while in these countries Cleaver began to see that they were not "worker's paradises" as he had been led to believe. He saw that the bone-crushing poverty. He saw that the leaders of the nation lived in luxury while the rest were poor. He saw that they had no freedom of speech whatsoever. They were....for all practical purposes.... slaves. Cleaver became disillusioned with Marxism-Leninism. He also lost faith in the "social agenda" of the Democratic Party of the U.S. He saw more and more African-Americans being born in poverty, living in poverty, and dying in poverty. He saw the Democratic Party's "welfare state" as a means of "controlling" blacks; keeping them down by placating them with "forced poverty" via welfare. He decided to become a Republican. He describes one night while in Cuba he looked up to the Moon, and saw the faces of Marx and Mao Tse-Tung and Castro and all his "heroes" appearing, and then fading away." With age come wisdom, you should know this Ralph!