there are things cuba needs to do?

President Obama: “And the fact that you had Raul Castro say he’s willing to have his government discuss with ours not just issues of lifting the embargo, but issues of human rights, political prisoners, that’s a sign of progress. And so, we’re going to explore and see if we can make some further steps. There are some things that the Cuban government could do. They could release political prisoners.”

they could release political prisoners? as we hold the cuban 5, we have the audacity (and not of hope) to tell them to free political prisoners? we have committed a 50 year crime against cuba, and yet there are things they can do to end our crime? imagine if cuba had an embargo against us, and then said we needed to take further steps, such as freeing mumia, before things could move forward. this is the language of lunacy, a lunacy so deeply embedded in our society as to seem the essence of normality.

it is not what they need to do, it is what we need to do. we need to apologize to them, we need to stop demonizing them, we need to pay them reparations, and then, we need to shut the fuck up.