Life is a Pleasant Puzzle
By Don Valentine and Nicole Nutting
He-Said: Nicole, “Viva la Raza” means “Long Live the Race”! Our Cubano Raza’s from Miami to New York are in camaraderie protesting the recent shutdowns in Cuba.
Cubans, now facing the country’s worst economic crisis in decades, took to the streets over the past weekends. In turn, authorities blocked social media sites in an apparent effort to stop the flow of information into, out of and within the beleaguered nation. Terminating internet access is a sure fire method of stifling dissent by authoritarian regimes around the world.
Russia, China, and North Korea exert tight control over what regular citizens can access online. Elsewhere, servicbabe blockages are more limited, often cutting off common social platforms around elections and times of mass protests. How do you think our fellow citizens would react to that stunt in the U.S.?
She-Said: Dude, I think we should be taking notes! In a few years that might be us if we can’t get federal control over voting rights. Democracy is under attack all around the world, and in America we are losing ours one tiny step at a time. Thank God for Stacy Abrams, Bishop Barber, and the Texas legislators who went AWOL to prevent passage of Draconian voter restriction bills in their state.
We need to WAKE UP, y’all! If our votes don’t get counted, all that’s left is to take it to the streets like our Cuban friends. What we’re seeing is not only a disaster for them, but an ill omen for us.
He-Said: Sister, you are prescient in your comments about a possible echoing in the U.S. Consider the raid on our capital. A slight shift in the wind could have abolished all of our freedom’s and turned the U.S. into a Trump dictatorship! Nicole, if we the public becomes lazy and non-participatory, we will get the despot we deserve. Wake up readers- God bless America! “Viva la Raza!”
