October 15, 2010

Lincoln Center Sponsors Jazz for Castro-Stalinism

By Humberto Fontova
Multi-Grammy-winner Wynton Marsalis, who serves as artistic director for jazz at the Lincoln Center, also serves as an official "United Nations Messenger of Peace." On Martin Luther King Day 2006, Mr Marsalis addressed Tulane University, quoting Dr King's words and hailing his deeds. "Dr. King's actions made his dream our reality," Marsalis beamed. In 2004, The Lincoln Center, with Wynton Marsalis as top act, held a concert titled the "Celebration of Human Rights and Social Justice." Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra spent all of last week as grateful guests of a Stalinist/Apartheid regime that murdered more political prisoners in its first three years in power than Hitler's murdered in its first six and that jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin did. Among these victims were the longest-suffering black political prisoners in modern history. Within walking distance of where Wynton Marsalis and his Lincoln Center...(Read Full Article)