Denial

Sometime after the Today Show fiasco, I had a moment of not so marvelous insight. Cubans of both the Exile and American variety face a common enemy. Here are two articles, both of which I spotted on Babalu. They make for great reading, but more than that each in it own way highlights the big problem:
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.aspidarticle=9895
and
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=2871
I looked around for a historical parallel, but couldn’t think of one. The only parallel I could think of came from dysfunctional human behavior. I was reminded of a family party, where one of the children came crying that the host’s dog, one of those prissy little creatures, had bitten her. The host went over to shush the child, telling her the dog hadn’t bitten her. It struck me at the time, that you know when a dog bites you. It is pretty hard to mistake, no matter what age. I can think of other parallels I’d rather not get into, but what is important is the denial of someone else’s experience. Face it, most of the MSM media is denying the experience of millions of Cubans in this country. You need only look at one fact- balseros. If Cuba is such a socialist paradise, why would untold numbers take the one in four chance of survival and take their rickety rafts, converted trucks, etc… to the water?My intial reaction to this mini-epiphany was that of despair. They just don’t want to know, I reasoned. What’s the use? Better to suffer the outrageous lies and whitewash ladled on by the MSM cynically, than to be reduced to a spluttering wreck, running to the computer to protest yet another abominably false claim about the island, past and present.But then I was at lunch one day bemoaning the Moore movie to a group of American friends, who reacted with a “duh?” These were intelligent people, who having been failed by the media, were just uninformed. So it came to me. “Tell the truth,” whatever part of it we know, not to power- they already know or don’t care- but to the people we know at any opportunity we get. Keep hollering. That dog bit us and we’re not gonna let anyone else tell us otherwise.