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Black American political figures have long had a romance with Fidel Castro and the Communist dictatorship on Cuba. There are reasons for this, but no excuses. In 1960, when Castro visited the U.N. in New York, he showily decamped from a plush midtown hotel and went to the Hotel Theresa, up in Harlem. And he has always talked a good game about race. When prominent black Americans travel to Havana, he delights in showing them his MLK Center. And they always ooh and ah. Recently, three congressmen met with Castro. Rep. Laura Richardson (D., Calif.) ...