French deputy addresses in book US war against Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

2. Unbearably true, Marcus IM!

US school kids are "educated" to imagine nothing south of the border really matters, except for the tropical fruit and natural resources US companies get there, like the nation's general store.

Avocados! Yum! Chocolate! Yum! Bananas! Yum! Sugar! Yum! Tobacco! Cough! Potatoes! Corn! Lithium! Copper! Emeralds! Oil!

As for the people, everyone already read what US government officials thought of them in the 19th century. As written by the US Undersecretary of War, J. C. Breckenridge, on Christmas Eve, in 1897:

. . . The inhabitants are generally indolent and apathetic. As for their learning, they range from the most refined to the most vulgar and abject. Its people are indifferent to religion, and the majority are therefore immoral and simultaneously they have strong passions and are very sensual. Since they only possess a vague notion of what is right and wrong, the people tend to seek pleasure not through work, but through violence. As a logical consequence of this lack of morality, there is a great disregard for life.

http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/bmemo.htm