Friday, February 6, 2004

I'm Sure Someone Will Miss Him



You remember Randall Robinson? He was the head of TransAfrica, in Washington, who went on a hunger strike in order to get President Clinton to invade Haiti. He did. Robinson is also a major, major apologist for Fidel Castro, perhaps his favorite world leader. Well, he has now left the United States and written a book about it: Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land. He went to St. Kitts, where his wife was born. Why did he leave America? He told an interviewer, "America is a huge fraud, clad in a narcissistic conceit and satisfied with itself, feeling unneedful of any self-examination nor responsibility to right past wrongs, of which it notices none. It's the kind of fraud that simply wears you out."



Well, I'm sure America is now slightly less fraudulent without Randall Robinson in it.