Fidel Castro playing basketball with agricultural high school students in Havana, Cuba, 1970
Fidel Castro playing basketball with agricultural high school students in Havana, Cuba, 1970
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He was a good baseball player apparently. I wonder how he was on the basketball court.
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I know it's really just nostalgia talking but there's just something about old photos that's magical!
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It’s that none of the damn youths are holding up their damn whozewhatsit comflabbed iphones! And they respected their damn elders! They had table manners and they were racist as fuck and we liked that!
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Interestingly enough, one of Castro's core platforms was fair treatment to the Afro-Cuban minority, and great progress was made in this area during the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately, like many situations so 'addressed' by governments throughout history, at one point, the Cuban government decided it was 'solved', and needed no further attention, when in reality... well, such battles take many generations to wage and win.
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Literal baller
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Our politicians eat onions and bowl over small children.
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and bowl over small children.
I'm not real up on my football penalties; would that be worth a yellow card?
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Red and don't come back.
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What a dude
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High school students?! WTF were they feeding them?
Recalling yoel Romero. He was in a program in Cuba specifically due to his physical abilities.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/61326982
Agricultural high school, and one presumes these are the star athletes of the school, so it's the top strata of farmer's boys who are getting an education to go on, themselves, to be farmers. And farming is pretty, uh, physical work.