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Afro-Cubans

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Oct 29, 2026

Verónica Bayetti FloresGUEST
57:38
And I think the next section you would have to be in New York City, right? Like Celia goes to New York City and participates with the Fania crew on like sort of like the creation of this thing that we called Salsa, right? And Celia was Cuban.
Verónica Bayetti FloresGUEST
57:55
She knew that like, you know, that this was like all like sort of Afro-Cuban music and it's, you know, like mixed up and advertised in a specific way for a way that worked for New York.
Verónica Bayetti FloresGUEST
58:06
And she's like, let me sell some records, baby.
Verónica Bayetti FloresGUEST
58:09
And so we can have a New York section.
Verónica Bayetti FloresGUEST
59:54
Of the music.
Verónica Bayetti FloresGUEST
59:55
And because it's like it.
Verónica Bayetti FloresGUEST
59:57
the music that came from the Afro-Cuban tradition was understood really readily in Kinshasa.
Verónica Bayetti FloresGUEST
60:07
And even though it was not specifically their music, they could feel that it was sort of like a homecoming, as did many of the musicians.
Juana SummersHOST
10:02
Did she play any music from the Latin jazz world?
Felix ContrerasGUEST
10:04
Okay, she went completely foundational to the birth of Afro-Cuban jazz with Dizzy Gillespie and the legendary Cuban drummer and vocalist Chano Pozo, whose life and career was cut short by a shooting.
Dolores HuertaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
10:15
We have to think of our Latin American roots.
Dolores HuertaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
10:18
We have to think of where our Latin music came from.
Chris PlanteHOST
8:02
Here's Ambassador Mike Waltz.
Michael WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
8:04
When Castro sent thousands of gay people, Christians, Afro-Cubans, and others to concentration camps, it was the regime who stripped them of their property...
Michael WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
8:16
And profited from their forced labor.
Chris PlanteHOST
8:19
Listen to the commies.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:25
Billions in wealth taken, stolen from the people in an instant.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:33
And then, when Castro sent thousands of gay people, Christians, Afro-Cubans, and others to concentration camps...
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:44
It was the regime who stripped them of their property and profited from their forced labor.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:51
Ever since, Havana would have you believe everything in Cuba has just disappeared.
Rich ValdésHOST
46:52
Here's Ambassador Mike Waltz explaining how Castro sent thousands of people, not only to the slaughter, but to the poorhouse.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:03
Castro sent thousands of gay people Christians, Afro-Cubans, and others to concentration camps, it was the regime who stripped them of their property and profited from their forced
Rich ValdésHOST
47:17
labor.
Rich ValdésHOST
47:18
You hear that stomping in the back? They're stomping their feet.
Scott AdamsHOST
45:38
It's exactly what you see here is exactly what the people see on stage.
Scott AdamsHOST
45:44
elsewhere so at the United Nations we had some fireworks this was pretty cool so Mike Waltz was given this speech and the Cubans didn't like what he had to say
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:56
or another and he asked the Cuban people for what colleagues for 67 years the Cuban regime has been telling the world that that it has discovered some type of exception to that rule.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
46:15
But the reality is when Fidel Castro seized power, he confiscated businesses, farms, factories, homes, and the savings of generations of hardworking Cubans, billions in wealth taken, stolen from the people in an instant.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
46:40
And then When Castro sent thousands of gay people, Christians, Afro Cubans, and others to concentration camps, it was the regime who stripped them of their property and profited from their forced labor.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
46:58
Ever since Havana would have you believe everything in Cuba has just disappeared.
Scott AdamsHOST
47:07
So he's talking about Cuba and what the Cuban contingent is doing is pounding the desk.
Scott AdamsHOST
50:51
It's going to be big.
RandyHOST
37:05
by those who supported the Bolsheviks and ultimately overthrew the Russian Tsars.
RandyHOST
37:13
You've got the Cuban Revolution in 1959, where there was this huge separation between the wealthy elites and the The common worker, which were primarily Afro-Cubans who worked in the sugarcane fields and had absolutely nothing.
RandyHOST
37:32
So you had this tremendous class differentiation and wealth disparity that took place that was there.
RandyHOST
37:40
Unfortunately, a lot of that supported by the U.S. government.
Brandon TatumHOST
15:56
And Cuba decided to pump their chest up and got embarrassed, wrote a clip.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
16:01
When Castro sent thousands of gay people, Christians, Afro Cubans and others to concentration camps, it was the regime who stripped them of their property and profited from their forced labor.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
16:17
Ever since Havana would have you believe everything in Cuba has just disappeared.
Mike WaltzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
16:24
Well, we know, we know where it went and today we are here to share it to the world.
Tony KinnettHOST
2:29
So he holds up photos of Fidel Castro wearing Rolexes that he put at about $40,000, which he said that essentially would pay for 55 years of an average Cuban wage, and then showed pictures of current President Diaz-Canel also, you know, living that high life.
Tony KinnettHOST
2:46
And then when he pointed out that Castro sent, quote, gay people, Christians, and Afro-Cubans and others to concentration camps, end quote, Which is true, by the way.
Tony KinnettHOST
2:56
The Cuban delegates started slapping their hands on the desks and screaming.
Tony KinnettHOST
3:01
Here you go.
Fadia PattersonGUEST
3:07
We are here in Tampa, which has a deep history of Afro-Latinos.
Fadia PattersonGUEST
3:11
We're not too far from Ybor City, where if you picture in Ybor City, we have the Afro-Cuban club and then we have the regular white Cuban club.
Fadia PattersonGUEST
3:22
But at one point, the Cuban community shared one social club, and it was because of the Jim Crow era.
Fadia PattersonGUEST
3:29
And that policy, as you can see, shaped those communities.

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