How does Fidel Castro live in the land of Communist equality? For the first time, in a stolen videotape from a girlfriend of his son, we have a clue. The video has been running on Univision:
Monday’s episode showed Mr Castro dressed casually before a banquet, inspecting the elaborate dinnerware on the dinner table, his grandchildren playing with relatives and Antonio zooming along the patio on an electric scooter. It pictures the spacious compound and carefully landscaped garden and reveals that many of the family are wearing designer clothes. The house is decorated with wooden chests and Cuban handicrafts. A large-screen television monitors foreign news channels.
Read “Animal Farm” lately?
RICE ON RACE: “The fact of the matter is, race matters in America. It has, it always has … It is not that I mind being associated with the group. I am African-American and proud of it. I wouldn’t have it any other way. And it has shaped who I am and it will continue to shape who I am. I do not believe it has limited who I am or what I can become. And that’s because I had parents who, while telling me what it meant to be African-American and exposing me to that, also allowed me to develop as an individual to be who I wanted to be.” – Condi Rice, quoted in Derrick Z. Jackson’s column in the Boston Globe today.
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