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Despite Castro, racism lingers Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 HAVANA – Leonides Terrero Silot wanted to take me to the Lincoln Hotel. This slender black man with the silver-gray hair and a bushy mustache insisted it's a place that all blacks from the United States should see. The 134-room hotel in the Galiano section of Central Havana, Terrero said, was one of the few places black visitors could stay in this city before Fidel Castro came to power. But his pride in showing me the aging hotel, built in 1926, turned to anger when a white security guard confronted us in the lobby as we tried to take an elevator to the rooftop restaurant. The guard said he had to check whether the restaurant was open before he could let us proceed. "That bastard is just stopping us because we're black," Terrero said softly. Full Article : spokesmanreview.com |
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