[Peace-discuss] Mr. President, May I Also Travel to Cuba?

[E. Wayne Johnson]

My great-grandfather Larkin Anderson Barker visited Cuba in the 1950's 
when he was in his 70's.  Following
a short dispute with his wife Victoria Magnolia (Hall) Barker, in which 
he said "I'm going to Cuba" and she
said "No, you're not", he said "Yes I am",  got his hat and drove his 
1951 Ford to Florida and took a boat to Cuba.  While he
was there he bought a loudly bright orange-fuchsia shirt which my 
great-grandmother would not permit to hang in her house.
I remember that shirt hanging out in the washhouse at my grandmother's 
for several years and I don't recall anyone ever
wearing it.

***

One benefit of normalized relations with Cuba might be better Coca-Cola 
if we can get Sugar from Cuba and
use that instead of the yucky high-fructose corn syrup that they say we 
can't detect. 


Robert Naiman wrote:
> I want to make absolutely clear that I'm totally delighted for my
> Cuban-American brothers and sisters who can now, thanks to President
> Obama's announcement, travel to Cuba without restriction. The Bush
> Administration restrictions were gratuitously mean and caused real
> hardship for Cuban-American families. Most Americans agree with me -
> 79%, according to a recent poll from WorldPublicOpinion.org.
>
> But without taking anything away from that, I just want to say: Mr.
> President, I like to travel, too. I have a passport and everything. I
> am not a Cuban-American. But I am an American. May I also travel to
> Cuba?
>
> According to the same WorldPublicOpinion.org poll, 70% of Americans
> think all of us should be allowed to travel to Cuba.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/mr-president-may-i-also-t_b_187394.html
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/15/164044/365
>
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> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
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