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Letters | Fidel is the Cuban Martin Luther King Jr.

I'M NOT A COMMUNIST - and never have been - but as a black Navy vet, I say, "Long live Castro!"

I'M NOT A COMMUNIST - and never have been - but as a black Navy vet, I say, "Long live Castro!"

When he dies, black Cubans will lose their Martin Luther King Jr.

I was in Havana, Cuba, in 1950 with the U.S. Navy. I thought I was in Mississippi or Georgia. I was called the "n-word" by white Cuban girls in Spanish. White Cubans had the best jobs and lived in the best homes.

There were places that blacks could not go or live. Castro changed all that - no more segregation.

His only mistake was being friends with Russia. He was a freedom fighter, not a politician.

Fletcher Todd

Philadelphia