{"id":593630,"date":"2021-07-16T13:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593630"},"modified":"2021-07-16T13:21:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:21:25","slug":"blm-praise-for-fidel-castro-assata-shakur-re-emerges-following-deplorable-cuba-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-praise-for-fidel-castro-assata-shakur-re-emerges-following-deplorable-cuba-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM Praise For Fidel Castro, Assata Shakur Re-Emerges Following \u2018Deplorable\u2019 Cuba Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblm-praise-for-fidel-castro-assata-shakur-re-emerges-following-deplorable-cuba-statement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593630&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1883.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Black Lives Matter\u2019s support for dictator Fidel Castro and convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur has re-emerged in the wake of a \u201cdeplorable\u201d statement blaming the suffering of the Cuban people on the American embargo and not the island\u2019s brutal communist regime.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which was co-founded by a self-described Marxist, Patrisse Cullors, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/black-lives-matter-faces-massive-backlash-over-deplorable-insane-statement-on-cuba\">already facing a backlash<\/a> from both the left and the right over its statement on Cuban pro-democracy protests, which blamed the ongoing demonstrations on an American embargo and called on President Joe Biden to lift the \u201cforced pain and suffering\u201d that they claimed was \u201ccutting off\u201d food and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack Lives Matter condemns the U.S. federal government\u2019s inhumane treatment of Cubans, and urges it to immediately lift the economic embargo,\u201d BLM said, in part. \u201cThis cruel and inhumane policy, instituted with the explicit intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cubans\u2019 right to choose their own government, is at the heart of Cuba\u2019s current crisis. Since 1962, the United States has forced pain and suffering on the people of Cuba by cutting off food, medicine, and supplies, costing the tiny island nation an estimated $130 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post, however, brought renewed scrutiny to the group\u2019s former missives praising erstwhile Cuban dictator Fidel Castro on the occasion of his death in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The group hoped Castro would \u201cRest in Power,\u201d according to a tweet issued shortly after Castro\u2019s death \u2014 a tweet that remains up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.2380952380952\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rest in Power <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FidelCastro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FidelCastro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blklivesmatter\/status\/802568605212647425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/black-lives-matter-cuba-fidel-castro\">Fox News unearthed an additional post<\/a>, extolling Castro\u2019s virtues on the occasion of his death, and coming to the brutal dictator\u2019s defense as a way of processing their \u201coverwhelming sense of loss, complicated by fear and anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are feeling many things as we awaken to a world without Fidel Castro. There is an overwhelming sense of loss, complicated by fear and anxiety. Although no leader is without their flaws, we must push back against the rhetoric of the right and come to the defense of El Comandante,\u201d BLM mused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Fidel, we know that revolution is sparked by an idea, by radical imaginings, which sometimes take root first among just a few dozen people coming together in the mountains,\u201d they continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Fidel ascends to the realm of the ancestors, we summon his guidance, strength, and power as we recommit ourselves to the struggle for universal freedom,\u201d the post concluded, per Fox News. \u201cFidel Vive!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post also heaped praise on Castro for offering safe harbor to Assata Shakur, who remains in exile in Cuba because she is one of the FBI\u2019s most wanted criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShakur, also known as JoAnne Chesimard, was convicted of being an accomplice in the 1973 slaying of&nbsp;New Jersey State Trooper&nbsp;Werner Foerster, who left behind a&nbsp;wife and 3-year-old son. Shakur later escaped prison and fled to Cuba, where former Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro granted her asylum,\u201d Fox News noted in a report Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>BLM co-founder Cullors has spoken out regularly in praise of Shakur and has credited Shakur with inspiring the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past year we have seen the movement and people at large elevating Assata worldwide chanting the excerpt from her letter and proudly wearing Assata Taught Me sweatshirts. Today\u2026we ask that people take a moment to uplift our sister Assata Shakur by posting on social media how Assata has inspired them and why she is important to the current Black Lives Matter movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Lives Matter\u2019s support for dictator Fidel Castro and convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur has re-emerged in the wake of a \u201cdeplorable\u201d statement blaming the suffering of the Cuban people on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}