This week is the last week of Hispanic Heritage Month.
My former Congresswoman, and the mother of one of my highschool classmates, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen went to a Books and Books in Miami and saw a display for books of Hispanic Heritage.
The original tweet has since been deleted, but because of the magic of the internet, I can still give you the text.
Mañana, I’m honored to read a book for #HispanicHeritageMonth to my 3 year old grandson’s class but this is the selection of outstanding Hispanics at my local @BooksandBooks:
Che Guevara
Frida
Cesar Chavez
Sonia Sotomayor
Apparently, there are no conservative Hispanics pic.twitter.com/7WBcvzMhcq
— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (@RosLehtinen) October 6, 2019
I have a feeling that she took that Tweet down, because based upon the Tweets that are still up, some old Cubans might try and burn Books and Books to the ground.
https://twitter.com/RosLehtinen/status/1180923430453104642
Yes, you read that correctly.
A bookstore in Miami is featuring a hagiography of a racist, Communist, mass murderer.
I guarantee this book ignored that Che ran the infamous La Cabaña Fortress prison, where tens of thousands of Cubans were executed by firing squad.
Che was a murderer and a madman. He, along with Fidel Castro and Robert Mugabe, was on the JV squad of murderous despots to the Varsity Squad of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. The only difference between them was body count. Cuba just didn’t have the population to support the murder of millions.
I don’t know if there will be a backlash against this, but there should be.
Featuring a book about Che that is even vaguely positive for Hispanic Heritage Month is like featuring a white supremacists biography of Hitler for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
I grew up in Miami in the 80’s and 90’s, so I was taught about the Cuban Revolution from the grandparent of my friends who witnessed it first hand.
It is because of this, even though I have no Cuban heritage, that I feel so strongly about this topic. Witnessing the grandfather of someone you are close to break down and cry, telling the story of family members who were executed by Che’s goons, it makes it real in a way that history books never capture.
One of the great travesties of history is that while most people know of the Holocaust, very few know what really happened in Cuba. Che’s face is seen on the shirts of young, hip Leftists. Fidel Castro was mourned by world leaders when he died.
There is a part of me that is occasionally tempted to take a sabbatical from engineering and do something different. One of those things is to try and make a movie. Since Hollywood has never, and probably will never do it, I would love to make what amounts to the Schindler’s List of the Cuban Revolution about the La Cabaña Fortress. To bring into the pop culture an understanding of exactly what was done to the Cuban people.
Maybe this is a project worth Kickstartering.
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