Black Chamber of Commerce supports the Protest of the Latin Grammys in Los Angeles

Letter from Carl L. McGill
President and CEO - Black Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles County

The Black Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles County of Inglewood,
California supports the Cuban-Exile community's demonstration of the Los
Angeles Latin Grammys scheduled for Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at the
Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California. In Cuba (Castro's Island
Prison and Plantation) a brutal political and social system imprisons
and discriminates against its black citizens. In the United States of
America, Africa, and the Caribbean, black people fought and died for
their civil rights and human rights. Today, Castro's Cuba is a relic of
brutal political and social systems that caged the souls and aspirations
of black people for centuries through slavery, Jim Crow laws,
Colonialism, and Apartheid.

Further, the Black Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles County believes
that the Cuban-Exile community's demonstration at the Los Angeles Latin
Grammys will be significant to those of the American Civil Rights
Movement and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa. Although the
citizens of the free world have chosen to ignore the suffering of those
wanting a free Cuba, natural laws will prevail. For, as Latin musicians
receive their golden trophies made possible in a free society, the
Cuban-Exile community will remind them of the thousands of men and women
who wear iron, the metal of Cuba’s imprisoned society. The Cuban-Exile
community supports Cuba's political prisoners which are an overwhelmingly
black majority and notably Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet (www.biscet.org); they
supported Dr. Martin Luther King; and they did not support the 1970s African
killings by Castro's
Soviet supported military.

Other anti-Castro black Americans include those who fled prosecution in
the U.S. to Cuba, only to return and denounce Castro's treatment of
black Cubans, as  the late Black Panther Party members Eldridge Cleaver
and Tony Bryant, who organized an anti-Castro movement in Miami,
Florida. Therefore, the Black Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles County,
too, stands tall with the Cuban-Exile community against Castro's Cuba at
the Latin Grammys.

Respectfully,

Carl L. McGill
President and CEO
Black Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles County
www.urbaninnercitypac.org

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