El legado del Che, tomo XVIII

[Donnybrook]

I can't decide if I think the Che would think it wonderfully ironic that he was being used to market the Mercedes or if he would be horrified.

[john]

Surfer pulls family from van that plunged off Balboa Island ferry-latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... otogallery

It was a mercedes that bumbed the dodge van off the ferry -- the poor unfortunates were a Taiwan family on vacation in So. Cal. It's not known if the mercedes driver thought they were Cuban-Americans.

[momof3]

I remember keeping Che's autobiography out of view while reading it in Miami. I knew better. I dare one of those fellows to walk down Calle 8 wearing that image on his shirt. To outsiders the image is fashionable, in Miami, it's personal.

[john]

Surfer pulls family from van that plunged off Balboa Island ferry-latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... otogallery

It was a mercedes that bumbed the dodge van off the ferry -- the poor unfortunates were a Taiwan family on vacation in So. Cal. It's not known if the mercedes driver thought they were Cuban-Americans.

Interesting....I used to live very close to that ferry (on the peninsula side, on East Bay Avenue) while I was studying at Univ of California in the 1960s. In fact I sometimes took that ferry when I rode my bicycle from peninsula to campus. And near that ferry is where I met the Mercedes (la française, from Lyon) who lived with me in Vancouver back then.

Ah, memory lane! I lived in East Bluff about a mile from the ferry on the Balboa Island side and I used to take the ferry to go across to the Pavilion. My older daughter worked the ferry after school during her senior year at Corona del Mar high school.

[john]

Ah, memory lane! I lived in East Bluff about a mile from the ferry on the Balboa Island side and I used to take the ferry to go across to the Pavilion. My older daughter worked the ferry after school during her senior year at Corona del Mar high school.

I worked at the Pavilon. I probably spilled soup on you when you came in to dine.

That was you???

[seawolf180]

Remember when Michelle Bachelet got her panties all hot when she was told Fidel was ready for her to come in and give homage. Same kinda thing all the way around. Ignorant, politicallt correct, and leaders in the "free world" alike. Glamorizing revolution. Like all the summary executions were, are, a minor detail not to be brought up.

I grew up in Laguna. Going to Balboa Island, on the ferry, and then dinner at the Crab Cooker was a yearly pilgrimage for our family.

[momof3]

Since we (john, seawolf, and px) were all evidently neighbours there in the 1960s, y'all will remember this:

All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey...

[rican]

You guys are old

I can't decide if I think the Che would think it wonderfully ironic that he was being used to market the Mercedes or if he would be horrified.

He would have bomb the shit out of the factory and driven out on an SLK with the top down smoking a cigar and posing with an AK on his hip. That's what the world is missing, a flamboyant terrorist.

[rican]

If it wasn't for the time spent in Miami, I would only know Che as the guy on the t-shirts.

[momof3]

As one who has taught in both private and public schools in the USA I can say that, no, the more interesting chaps in history are not included in the curriculum. Apparently US history ends with WWII.
On another note: Che got his hands chopped off? Did this happen in Africa?

[momof3]

On another note: Che got his hands chopped off? Did this happen in Africa?

Yes, you did teach in the US.

[rican]

If it wasn't for the time spent in Miami, I would only know Che as the guy on the t-shirts.

Attila the Hun? Joseph Stalin? Slobodan Milosevic? Vlad the Impaler? Pol Pot? Any of those names figure into your education?

Wait... you went to public school in the US, right?

Yep, yep, yep, no clue. El Che was not really studied beyond the cursory mention when learning about the Cuban revolution, which was barely discussed. Going through school in the latter years of the cold war, we mostly focused on the Cuban missile crisis. It was not until college, with the wannabe Communists, where I really got to understand his involvement in the revolucion and other "incidents". So yeah, Che did not quite fit in my education as much as let's say Stalin, who rarely gets credit for being a fucking psycho murderer of millions.