[00:00:05] >> Thank you John for the push and. We don't have much time so I'm. Going to try to I'm going to try to do today's simply to explore a couple be interrelated questions to fuel. And pursue some of that India question answered the question of the full first I want to talk briefly about the very contradictory contradictory legacy of the Cuban Revolution your phrase really should was just what I write study. [00:00:38] Particularly be part of the crisis in human history through ninety's high school on race relations. And then their school or some of the ways in which I for Cuba and the Cuban cultural scene works or be responding to these realities of mine called which are going to be talking about US Cuba relations. [00:01:00] So I have made an effort to organize my presentation around in conversation so IMHO you know if you work for the city this is not a theme that is fairly prominent in U.S. policy formulations or twenty three your patients your new book but they should go show you that you house them full report to the press you can buy the so-called commission for ages those who are free Cuba these are not i Book human which is over four hundred fifty pages there are two part graphs in the document in the order. [00:01:34] To Greece question my view we are indication that you know from some of the reports on first time very little about contemporary Fuga. And they make three basic points as you can see first they claim God in Castro's Cuba racial on older forms of discrimination have been a serious problem second they claim that even one nine hundred ninety S.. [00:01:58] Racial disparities have increased on the third day do you predict that a free market economy will release equally to. Excuse for what someone told them you know in the future bureaucratic Cuba and the return usually begins three forms the first one is to put it in the simplest possible terms wrong is quite simply a lie this is not true in this impossible to sustain this point there is no no empirical evidence to sustain this point seriously you fired the research much into your goal every dish to sustain the opposite point that he made way to push through sure you've almost quite successful in dealing with the race problem with the so-called race problem to very many ways pushed revolutionary Cuba because of a flow of its well known social programs here to creation health care nutrition. [00:02:52] For distribution of awkward moment I'm very good speaker and food according to the CT community or the financial sectors of the population of because of fall guy who will charge you look whilst you are quite successful in reducing racial inequality in Engelberg of critically important areas. One could claim God but you're only nine hundred eighty S. [00:03:15] you been to Cuba it was not the original part I JUST GOT YOU are furious claiming. That by the early one nine hundred eighty S. Cuba had been able to be remarkably successful community in their quality and Hoover of the area and I want to show your public group examples of these one to wait so school year new creation the proportion of blacks with high school degree C. [00:03:40] Hugo was harder than the proportion of those of us that's why you don't reach that's why the Cuban bar is shocked to see your bullshit very version of the University level of the call those would all. Be the percentage of all. Good before it was it was simply the forestry whites among whites in Cuba was. [00:04:04] But only one percent is so basically the same proportion of whites I'm only twice working in the University of Cuba therefore it's not a surprise that the proportional lots. Of whites blacks and Latinos. Points unknown whites in the professional visuals were basically was basically the same in Cuba in the early in a few days. [00:04:32] Again Kubo was not a racial part of a strafing like battle but the massive good program of my secret distribution of resources that had taken place in the islands usually to fifty nine have it for a magic marker on different forms of social inequality concluding racial inequality. It is true where were and I hate to agree with you all to say reward but have you done certain point you just think that in the one thousand nine hundred fifty two Asian and change America because all data all these indicators so if you quality were basically screened by your program and by you will first state then how did ability to distribute goods and social services to white sectors of the population in the 1980's that government that you want Golden Globes believe you lost the capacity they can only cost you to do this with the collapse of the Soviet Union and with its own mismanagement of the viewer the kind of. [00:05:31] A cerise old book that suits the ninety nine edition racial disparities commission and have increased dramatically in the few but. This is mostly a phone the function of an equal access to resources or even rolling of unequal access to US goes most probably some of you at least know enough to know you can read if you're going to reauthorize. [00:05:56] A price the use of Google arse that means stuck having access to Google arse was a long way to terminate your position. Her situation you society blacks were immediately disadvantaged for at least two reasons first because most Cubans get dollars from their family members and if you are American community community defines itself largely absent some white community in other words. [00:06:23] Most blacks in the proportion who actually I don't who receive money from abroad who for little human schoolers have to steal needed whereas thirty to forty percent of whites in the item receive money from family members only five to ten percent of blacks do. This is also a function of the fact that maybe the proportion of Connelly's with Grow up yourself you so much will blog about among whites at least according to some recent surface conductor of their own there is one of the reason I'm not on their resume the five God works are here we are only to represent the wounded to respect or I mean the most dynamic sectors of the if you are the problem I'm just playing that for a second there are very under represented in the other words you don't see many blacks work when you go through sector which is of course a sector in which people have more easy access to gold arse onto tourists. [00:07:22] Now in Cuba this can be explained a function of lack of skills foresight should you be forced by the one nine hundred eighty S. black sheep here how very similar levels of schooling if you were to be a function of skills or as a functional Clark of a geisha or accordance with in fact what happened in the one nine hundred eighty S. [00:07:41] you stuck to a word or believed group efforts to mean you minus the persons of the arts in the sector so if you want economy quiet community street or so on managers who gave those good solutions to relegate the fish to family members to friends many of whom were of course white I certainly sold blacks found themselves actually who did from who moved by now. [00:08:04] Regarding pristine sector something you uncommonly. Well have they done in reaction to these to. Be well furnished they have sought to participate in the new goal our economy by of the informal sector since they don't have many opportunities to participate in the form of the economy they have tried to participate in the economy via informal like the release of many of these activities and I'm talking hustling peddling of prostitution and. [00:08:39] All kinds of medial services to people operating truck trying to you know who come up with a tourist I'm trying to get to offer all kinds of different services many of those are to be just are criminalized there for contributing to bring course the notion that blacks are in fact naturally pretty supposed to crying on the price of this and to run you through life of crime and corruption. [00:09:05] Racism is always a circular you'll get your food to the National what you're used to people because they're supposedly inferior and prone to crying on the other vices and by he expects looting and. These forces then to resort to the very crimes and vices study were charged with to begin with the sort of a so fulfilling prophecy. [00:09:31] The growing racial polarization of the house correct to write a human society that I can only see that I have seen growing through the night the night used to be. Used in one thousand nine hundred House also led to various forms of for a few months or going to say sure I'm through various forms of of expression now most of these expressions have taken place. [00:09:57] In the relatively safe area of culture. So you see it is frankly unsaved to organize anything political in Cuba. People try to people use cultural spaces to articulate the contest Qatari pre-schoolers sure if you look at the agreed to release of turn of the born into a community so in the one nine hundred ninety S. [00:10:18] along with this process I've been describing we have witnessed it creation the emergence of a wide vibrant new A for Cuba cultural movement. You can see diving in the graphic arts you can see it in the literature and you can see the music religion. A group of young for Cuban intellectuals are trying to protest by the seat under the auspices of a growing displacement in their own society and to protest. [00:10:49] Against the new D.C.U. poor and so of discrimination. While some of these artists simply emphasize. The loss of associated with the crisis of the night and sort of flew by with some last fall short of a year or so of human socialism when a good education and participation in the revolutionary project would give someone a very humble or region like this people access to what something doesn't mean you know who like what you will see a Soviet made Lada was a terrible car frankly of humans loved it because there were no other cars so you were on a minute or two slavish like it you'll go do your sort of move to do that and what we do with your time stop with nostalgia overs hard work or are sort of looking for work I'm pretty decisive going to go very hard of Hugo races. [00:11:50] We Majerus let me let me share this one with you see made by a movie or a for Cuba art is very near and you know this is actually a graduate from. From English from the English Literature school. Who began to work with a cook or where in the early ninety's in the ninety's what printer creating a few of us were to try to mock is to try to make fun of some of the most in grain rhesus the images that circulating people one of those images of course is that image of the right Camille black America right which is an image that is very common in all races imaginaries he makes fun of the of the image the critical radio by simply putting in ninety by substituting the opinion of a black man with a knife trying to quote attention to the fire of how ridiculous these events be of. [00:12:47] All the others. Do something similar by using the magic everybody social seated with Cuban tourist industry. Whenever you see a postcard of a tourist in Cuba whenever you see. Something promoting through his many posters of your own most always going too far in a black woman in that poster it was produced like a symbol of Cuban eroticism right well so long like these gigs are peaceful you really do just one dish who calls himself a natural and for signs of more use of force or gender the invention represents Cuba precisely I sort of assumed you would move up to the woman who used to convert or was surrounded by the for in. [00:13:37] On three of you describe the father of symbols rests on the Babe of tropical fruits she is called to be at least very troubling over and on to make it even more authentic than Mark human Hebrews cherish legendary breath on her head you know so you've got a hobby Don't you have the Central Committee to have sex you have to probably go through to the beautiful scholar and if what you like is revolution. [00:14:04] We have done for you was. A. Very. Well to this young painters have been trying to express through their work she's quite amazing and a lot of which I am only sure you wrote it would sound cool young musicians have been trying to express into a lyric the research by her and I'm growing grab. [00:14:31] Musical movement in Cuba where of course came from the U.S. in the early one nine hundred eighty S. and the prostate off some of these young artists are You seem very real see through articulate a very contested thirty Peace Corps or pretty critical discourse of racial realities in Cuba the use reflects in a sense of course my preference I simply think that these two young men were personal debased a few going to rob high school or on some of their leaders to go through there. [00:15:04] Are quite. Rightfully take the title but recently actually for one of their moves on a recent Soames. And we can talk about them in the right movement later if you want to know I think it is a silly. Bed to say. That these young artists and intellectuals will not shocking opposed to go Cuba if they will only their voices will only grow louder you know close their postmaster Hugo let me finish by saying that I am quite skeptical about this recipe. [00:15:42] First because markets are never free Fuld's they're never free they're always captive they're always captive to human So yes they're always practised to human preferences they're always captive to the prejudices some degree and some just curious will some visuals of human beings circling everything we know about racism here Mary pass. [00:16:05] Not in the U.S. twenty five it was. On from the space. If anything you can learn anything from that from experience he said the only way to really fight against racism under your roof for a few shows doubt will be instantly if you will sustain really sustain during an intervention and I suspect God knows how to treat you what is not going to be are exceptions. [00:16:36] To. The.