- THE BLAZE - JULY 19, 2021 - PHIL SHIVER -
Last week, spontaneous uprisings erupted across Cuba as residents of the island nation bravely stood up to protest the pains inflicted upon them by the country's oppressive communist regime.
That news likely came as a shock to journalist and "1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, who argued in 2019 that the country's socialist government affords residents a utopian form of racial equality unmatched anywhere in the Western Hemisphere.
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During an interview with progressive journalist Ezra Klein for Klein's podcast "Vox Conversations," Hannah-Jones touted Cuba as the "most equal" country in the Western Hemisphere, "largely due to socialism."
"Are there candidates right now or even just places that you think have a viable and sufficiently ambitious integration agenda, and if so, what is it?" Klein asked, prompting the discussion.
"If you want to see the most equal, multiracial democ ... it's not a democracy — the most equal, multiracial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba," Hannah-Jones responded, despite admitting she's not an "expert" on race relations internationally.
"Cuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place really in the hemisphere," she continued. "I mean the Caribbean — most of the Caribbean it's hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very, very small. They're countries run by black folks. But in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality, and that's largely due to socialism, which I'm sure no one wants to hear."
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