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High school students?! WTF were they feeding them?
Recalling yoel Romero. He was in a program in Cuba specifically due to his physical abilities.
Agricultural high school, and one presumes these are the star athletes of the school, so it's the top strata of farmer's boys who are getting an education to go on, themselves, to be farmers. And farming is pretty, uh, physical work.
Especially in those times in Cuba. They are only now in recent years getting mechanized in farming.
He was a good baseball player apparently. I wonder how he was on the basketball court.
I know it's really just nostalgia talking but there's just something about old photos that's magical!
It’s that none of the damn youths are holding up their damn whozewhatsit comflabbed iphones! And they respected their damn elders! They had table manners and they were racist as fuck and we liked that!
Interestingly enough, one of Castro's core platforms was fair treatment to the Afro-Cuban minority, and great progress was made in this area during the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately, like many situations so 'addressed' by governments throughout history, at one point, the Cuban government decided it was 'solved', and needed no further attention, when in reality... well, such battles take many generations to wage and win.
Our politicians eat onions and bowl over small children.
and bowl over small children.
I'm not real up on my football penalties; would that be worth a yellow card?
Red and don't come back.
Every picture of Fidel playing basketball goes hard as diamonds
mohs hardness scale for reference (please ignore that i forgot to edit 10 to 11 lmfao)
Literal baller
What a dude