wat0n wrote:No, they are not the same because Cuba is willing to be a lot harsher than the US in repressing those who may not be happy about police killings of Black people
It's interesting how authoritarian leftists become when people protest the regimes they like
Cuba has fewer prisoners per capita than the USA, but both countries have high rates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... ation_rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarcera ... #Ethnicity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_p ... nt_in_Cuba
(per 100,000 pop)
USA 655
Black USA 2,306
El Salvador 590
Cuba 510
Panama 401
...
China 120
Canada 107
France 105
Of course, if you're a black American, the incarceration rate is 2,306. And this is also reflected in how police handle calls or interaction with black men specifically.
Mark Q Sawyer, the only source for the wikipedia article you sourced, made a career as an assistant professor of Poli Science in Los Angeles, writing about race relations. I'm sure he received a lot of grant money by writing trash about Cuba.
Neither you or I have any proof that black men are as over-represented in Cuba's prisons as they are in the USA. So you are projecting an American phenomenon onto another country (using American authors) even though your target country has had very different social conditions and modern history. Again, terrible methodology because your conclusion (Cuba = bad) came first, and then you tried to stuff whatever information you were able to find into this simple narrative.
And it was just so easy for you to "prove" Cuba=bad using anti-communist tropes from American sources because your "proof" has been prepared for you since the end of the second world war. All you had to do was take them out of the dusty old box and throw them together.
But this demonstrates that you are blinded by your own reflection, and project your own society's problems and issues upon other cultures and peoples who have lived very different lives and have very different concerns and points of view.
How sad that your reflection is so strong that it blinds you from apprecating the positive differences of other cultures and economic systems, especially since ours is currently collapsing into lies and economic fascism.