“In one respect you, amigos, are fortunate. No sane person takes Holocaust deniers seriously…but can you imagine how you’d feel if Holocaust denial was the mainstream media and academic view?
Well, that’s how Cuban-Americans feel–and the feeling is reinforced every morning when we read or watch the news. All this hysteria over Castro and Che’s atrocities, you see, is a mere confection by a greedy, revanchist, politically-powerful minority.”
So starts my speech…
Our friends at Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors help us sneak items that for 53 years have constituted dinner-table chatter for every Cuban-American family–past the Miami-Dade and Union city border and into the very belly of the beast.