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Marcus IM

(3,001 posts) Fri Jan 19, 2024, 12:56 PM Jan 2024

Democratic Black Congresswoman, Barbara Lee, Shut Out of Cuba Hearing By Cuban American Rep. Mara Elvira Salazar (R) [View all]

Hardline tRumpster Cuban American Rep. María Elvira Salazar stated she'd like to have this discourse in Havana, Rep Barbara Lee had the perfect response ...

Black Congresswoman Shut Out of Cuba Hearing

On Thursday January 18, hardline Cuban American Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) told Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) she couldn't join a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on Cuba.

Salazar accuses Cuba's government of stifling free speech while doing the same to Lee, a Black woman who advocates lifting the embargo.

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Democratic Black Congresswoman, Barbara Lee, Shut Out of Cuba Hearing By Cuban American Rep. Mara Elvira Salazar (R) [View all] Marcus IM Jan 2024 OP

Makes sense. SarahD Jan 2024 #1

Black Cubans attained universal sufferage before black Americans Marcus IM Jan 2024 #2

Barbara Lee has gone to Cuba repeatedly, doing serious discussions, meetings. She knows far more than these beanbags. Judi Lynn Jan 2024 #3

Congresswoman Barbara Lee wasn't "friends" with Fidel Castro, she was part of congressional delegations visiting Cuba Marcus IM Jan 2024 #4

Will never forget learning about the dictator of Uzbekistan whom George W. befriended who literally boiled his "enemies" Judi Lynn Jan 2024 #5

The hard right wants to both smear socialist Cubans they don't know a thing about, but also smear Democrats if they can. Judi Lynn Jan 2024 #6

Monsters. eom Marcus IM Jan 2024 #7

WTF? malaise Jan 2024 #8

So much pandering to the worst elements of the Cuban "exile" diaspora has resulted in this .. Red State Floduh now. Marcus IM Jan 2024 #9