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Fausta Wertz of Fausta’s Blog alerted me to the latest article about Che Guevara, the leftist folk hero: Che’s Secret Diary

It turns out that Che, the icon of so many in the left, had a bit of a “diversity” problem:

“Reading The African Dream, it’s easy to understand Debray’s conviction.  

Guevara casts serious doubts on the possibility of anything like world revolution. 

Everything went wrong, and the racial politics were hardly progressive.

The Congolese had decided that Guevara should not be viewed as the leader of the Cuban-Congolese forces, but rather as a Cuban “councilor,” so it would not appear that a white man was giving them orders.

After discovering that so many of the African fighters were incompetent, Guevara took charge anyway, breeding bad blood.  He had ongoing problems, too, with his black Cubans acting superior to and contemptuous of the native Congolese.

As for igniting revolutionary fervor among people he believed would lie — and lie preposterously — at the least provocation, Guevara found it just impossible.

The beloved revolutionary icon sounds pretty much like an old-fashioned racist when it comes to evaluating his black brothers in arms.”