Wheesht Spa
6th September 2021
CubanaAngel, as she is known on social media, is the wrong sort of civil rights campaigner — the mainstream left would prefer it if she kept her mouth shut. A black woman in California, CubanaAngel has the wrong opinions, she worships an unfashionable god and probably doesn’t even give her pronouns when she meets new people. Despite not passing the political purity test, CubanaAngel believed she had the right to speak-out against something she felt was unjust. But when she did, the US edition of the Guardian, a paper which describes itself as “giving a voice to the powerless”, reported that she had made “unsubstantiated allegations” which had fuelled violent far-right extremism.