Quote of the Week

"With Obama's election, it's not that black Cubans became pro-U.S. or pro-Washington, but they said, 'A black man can become elected head of state in a country that we were always told was racist -- but here we are with [a majority] and we cannot come into power.'"
 
- Carlos Moore, Afro-Cuban scholar on the effect of U.S. President Barack Obama's election on the Cuban "street," Los Angeles Times, January 3rd, 2010