Figure 1.--Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution has sought to create a classless society without the taint of racism. Here we see he begnning of a wrestling match on a hvana street. Castro has helped to cretate a classless society primarily by lowering the living standard of the white population. We see this on the streets of Cuban cities with black, mulatto, and white children playing together wothout the least thought of race or social differences. What we do not see is many blacks in the upper echelons of Cuban leaders or in the entrpreneurs that Cuban officials allow to operate. It is not entirely clear why this is. And Cuban officials do not permit a discussion of it.

Racism exists Cuba, but it has been significantly diluted by both the flight of the white middle class and the social ideology of the Revolution. The Communist Party strictly prohibits the open public discussion of race issues. Any expression of racial hatred or black nationalism is sunject to severe repression. Reducing racial inequities is one of the few success of the Revolution. That said, Cuba is not a color-blind utopia. Blacks in Cuba are routinely denied access to top decesion making positions and have generally lower income levels than whites. This is something the Cubans are not allowed to openly discuss and as far as we know there is no available data. As a result of the Revolution there has been a leveling of Cuban society. Black incomes and and access to government services have increased. At the same time white incomes have been very sharply reduced. The highest level blacks we have noted are in the military. Blacks tend to be among the most fervent supporters of the Revolution because of the efforts to integrate them into Cuban society. In the United States, Civil Rights groups point to numerical disparities in crimimal encarceration, drug use, education, elected office, government appoitments, housing, jobs, and other areas as evidence of descrimation. In Cuba, open discussion of this issue is not permitted.

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