Capitalist Pig?

I'm sitting at home Saturday night watching HBO's 24/7- A boxing series which provides an in depth look at the training camps of fighters as they prepare for big upcoming fights on the network. The fighters being featured are Floyd "Money" Mayweather and his opponent, Mexican superstar Juan Manual Marquez. The cameras followed Mayweather as he visited a local shelter and handed out lunches to the homeless- a noble act indeed. However, what caught my attention was "money" Mayweather's Che Guevara T-shirt. Guevara, served as Fidel Castro's Ed McMahon during the Cuban revolution and has become somewhat of a mascot for the entertainment Liberal left in America. There is so much Irony here to point out. First, Mayweather- who according to Forbes Magazine- has earned over $70 million in purses throughout his career-wears a T-shirt which features a Marxist who is by definition anti capitalist. Mayweather in fact owes his lavish and flashy lifestyle to capitalism for it has made him-a high school dropout- a multi-millionaire. The millions that he has earned affords him the ability to feed the homeless and support local charities in his hometown as he so graciously does. On his way to winning a bronze medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Mayweather defeated a world ranked Cuban fighter-who unfortunately has not been able to enjoy the fame and riches of a professional career due to the ban that Cuba has on pro boxing. He is also prevented from coming to the US to earn a living with his skills thanks to the travel restrictions.

Actress Cameron Diaz arrived at the Peruvian airport last summer, she thought that the stares she was getting were for her trendy handbag. People were staring for sure, but for all the wrong reasons. The bag, purchased in China, featured a red star and the words "Serve the people" on it. The problem? That was Mao Zedong's most famous political slogan, which stirred up memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency, which, according to the BBC, was responsible for 70,000 deaths in Peru during the '80s and '90s. Diaz apologized later for "inadvertently" offending anyone. How about she apologize for being ignorant?just like thousands of others who have reduced the millions of deaths that Communism and Marxism have claimed, down to a fashion statement.

Want more irony? Che Guevara and Mao Zedong would hate everything that these mindless, overpaid and pampered celebrities stand for. If they lived in Castro's or Guevara's Cuba, Mayweather nor Diaz would live in their Uber mansions with Bentley's or Mercedes parked in the driveway- which were generated by you guessed it...capitalism. For the ultimate irony, a man who was anti capitalist is now a symbol of capitalism who has his image trademarked no less.

To the uninformed, Che it seems represents a symbol of the counter culture. Others see him as some sort benevolent revolutionary in the mode of Robin Hood. To the informed, Che Guevara was a man responsible for the deaths of thousands-hundreds of those coming from firing squads that he personally oversaw. He also created labor camps where those who disagreed with him were sent. He also helped to usher in one of the most repressive regimes in the western world. A regime that routinely throws people in jail indefinitely for anti-Castro political expression or speech. There is a reason that everyday our coast guard picks up Cuban refugees off the coast of Florida who have risked being eaten by sharks to come to America for opportunity and freedom. I don't think that the Cuban Authorities are seeing any Americans coming the other way.

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