By Joseph Hammond, May 30, 2013, The Commentator
When Sen. Marco Rubio,
R-Fla., chastised celebrity couple Jay-Z and Beyonce in a TV interview for
their recent trip to Cuba, he especially criticized Jay-Z for his adoration of
Che Guevara.
“I think Jay-Z needs to
get informed,” Rubio said. “One of his heroes is Che Guevara. Che Guevara was a
racist. Che Guevara was a racist that wrote extensively about the superiority
of white Europeans over people of African descent, so he should inform himself
[about] the guy that he’s propping up.”
Jay-Z, Carlos Santana, and
Johnny Depp — who have all been spotted in Guevara t-shirts in the last decade
— have, as Rubio correctly noted, largely ignored the issue. Yet, some leftist
defenders of Guevara do occasionally deal with Guevara's views on race. A
blogger named Faraji Toure at “Afro-Punk”
notes a troubling passage from Guevara’s 1952 diary:
“The blacks, those
magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial
purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their
territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.”
“The black is indolent and
a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a
tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of
America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual
aspirations.”
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