My AI search pulled this up:
Ho Chi Minh lived in Harlem, New York around 1912–1913 while working menial jobs such as a dishwasher and laborer. During his time in the neighborhood, he frequently attended the rallies and speeches of African nationalist and Pan-Africanist leader Marcus Garvey.
And the “progressive” Gloria Steinem wrote this insightful article in the New Yorker several years ago.
Link — https://www.thecut.com/article/gloria-steinem-on-ho-chi-minhs-past-in-new-york.html
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Interesting.
I mean, these guys were true revolutionaries in the real sense - not pretenders. Now, one of them, Raul Castro, is about to be humiliated by a low down scumbag like Donald Trump and the son of a reactionary Cuban, Marco Rubio.
I remember both Dr Ben & Stokely Carmichael reminding us of how Ho Chi Minh use to stomp around Harlem at one point in his life and being influenced by Marcus Garvey and some of the street preachers/revolutionists there. Minh, it seems, was drawn to the Black struggle, not only in the US but in France as well - hanging out with some of the Pan-Africanist & Black nationalists in France at the time, including some of the top Caribbean scholars attending university there.
Pretty sure hardly anyone know of that part of his biography.
MAY HO CHI MINH REST IN PEACE. AMEN
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