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Black People Used To Attack

Revolutionary Governments – OpEd
 April 13, 2023  Margaret Kimberley  1 Comment

By Margaret Kimberley

The question of how Black people fare in a

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“We used to talk about, when I was a kid, in college, about ‘America’s
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Backyard’. It’s not America’s backyard. Everything south of the Mexican
border is ‘America’s Front Yard’. And we’re equal people. We don’t dictate
what happens in any other part of this continent or the South American
continent. We have to work very hard on it.” — President Joe Biden
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widespread movement to change the government and suddenly Black
people in that country received special attention.  “Cuba’s Black Trump’s Al
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Of course Cuba wasn’t the end of the story. Nicaragua was next on the list
for U.S. interventions in 2021. That country has been a target of U.S.
imperialism for decades. Recent Comments

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Of course, the U.S. involved
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Reagan waged a deadly contra war during his terms in office.

Now the war against an independent and sovereign Nicaragua goes on,
but with some new twists. In 2018 the Donald Trump administration
backed a coup attempt which terrorized the nation for three months and
killed more than 200 people. The Nicaraguan government under President
Daniel Ortega was accused of human rights abuses for doing what any
other state would do, imprison those who tried to overthrow it. These
penalties were enacted after the golpistas, the coup makers, violated an
amnesty and continued to work with the U.S. against the Nicaraguan
government. When Ortega recently released 222 of the plotters and
deported them to the U.S., a group of them were greeted by Secretary of
State Antony Blinken, including some who had committed murders .

As in Cuba, Black Nicaraguans have become the face of U.S. inspired

opposition. Black academics here write books about an “authoritarian
turn ” in that country. They do not mention how the 2018 coup attempt
devastated that country, and conveniently erase the U.S. role in instigating
the violence and now in protecting the perpetrators. Nor do they mention
that during the 2021 presidential election, the Sandinista government
received strong support  from the Atlantic coast communities where the
African descended population predominates.

Of course this entire western hemisphere is infected with racism. It can’t

be otherwise when it was built on the backs of African and indigenous
genocides. If Black Cubans or Nicaraguans fare worse than other groups in
their societies, they are no different than Black people in the U.S. It is
cynical in the extreme to use the oppressed to make the case for old
fashioned Yankee imperialism. But war propaganda is a lie by its very
nature, and critiques of nations labeled as adversaries should be seen as
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The role of people living within the empire is a simple one. Oppose
interventions and interference carried out against other countries. For
Black people there is another admonition. Never trust anyone claiming
that Black people living in a revolutionary state are being treated any
worse than you are. Regardless of their nation’s problems it is unlikely that
they face as many negative outcomes as we do here. Black rappers may
get USAID money to help undermine another country, but any advantages
end at the whim of the imperialist system.

Margaret Kimberley
Margaret Kimberley's is the author of Prejudential: Black
America and the Presidents. Her work can also be found at
patreon.com/margaretkimberley and on Twitter
@freedomrideblog. Ms. Kimberley can be reached via e-Mail
at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgendaReport.com."

One thought on “Black People Used To Attack

Revolutionary Governments – OpEd”
 Miriam
 April 13, 2023 at 2:29 am
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Your opinions concerning Nicaragua and your alleged “coup-plotters” have

been soundly repudiated by facts—facts about the Ortega-Murillo regime’s
human rights abuses that have been exposed by international groups of
experts reporting to the Organization of American States and the United
Nations. Why not explain to your readers from the first paragraph that you
are an apologist for a dictatorship that commits crimes against humanity?

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