Marc Lamont Hill Celebrates Veterans Day with Image of Cuba’s Revolutionary Army

CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill decided to celebrate Veterans Day by posting an image of women in Cuba’s revolutionary army.

https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/664462406257672192

It wasn’t long before someone pointed out the soldiers in the photo were Cuban, at which point Hill deleted the tweet and said it was a mistake:

@nharmon I just realized that. And deleted.

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 11, 2015

In responding to a story about the image at another news site, Hill explained what he’d been trying to do:

@theblaze this is a non-story. I attempted to post a West African female battalion. Posted the wrong pic and deleted.

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 11, 2015

@theblaze I wanted to give love to freedom fighters around the globe, especially women. Plus the image was beautiful!

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 11, 2015

@HashtagGriswold @theblaze I never said Africans (a huge and imprecise term) celebrated it. It's what I choose to do.

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 11, 2015

Hill maintained that he wasn’t trolling people on Veterans Day, he just made a mistake:

@theblaze Im not afraid to post controversial stuff and stand by it. But that wasn't the case this time.

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 11, 2015