When America liked it? When Cuba was racially segregated? When education was only available to a privileged few? When the poor died of easily curable ailments? When vice was rampant? Had they preferred Batista's mafia-infested Cuba? Or the Cuba between the state that Teddy Roosevelt preened to subjugate and Franklin Delano Roosevelt worked to keep?
In "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks," author Randall Robinson questions the motivations behind America's favorable view of Cuba during certain historical periods. He challenges readers to reflect on whether the admiration was genuine or rooted in a preference for a situation where racial segregation and social inequality were rampant. He highlights a time when education was limited to the wealthy, the poor suffered from preventable diseases, and corruption was...
