Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:14:02
CORE has a core
Fox News has a good article on the subject of Mr. Belafonte today. I was struck by much in the piece, but especially this:
Isn’t it just like Jessie to find the wrong side of any given issue? And furthermore to glom onto a situation that has nothing to do with him in the first place? I’m still waiting for Jessie to answer Chris Rock. When Jackson guested on Rock’s HBO show, Chris looked at him pointedly and said “I gotta ask, Jessie...I asked Al Sharpton, I gotta ask you, what exactly is it that you do, and what are you a reverend of? I mean, how do you make money?” I know the answer already...through opportunism. But I digress.
Here we have two men born to poverty, both approximately the same age, both of Jamaican decent, both accomplished in their field. Belafonte came up and made a successful life and an entertainer. Powell once held the highest rank a military officer can ever hope to hold in this country, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
If Belafonte was so interested in advancing the cause of black people, one would think he would, regardless of political partisanship, see a fellow Jamaican made good and say “Yes...yes, you have done well for yourself, and you do us proud, even though I disagree with your politics.” Or maybe that’s too white for Belafonte...maybe he’d prefer “Yah, mon, you be doin’ well, evahn doh yer politics be all bumbaclot,mon.”
And then along comes Jackson...bandwagonboy, Mr. March, The Great Capitalizer. He got more rhymes than there’s cops that are dunkin’. He doesn’t have any real solutions, or any actual rainbows in his coalition, but hey...he’s a great sound-byte.
All I know is, my first exposure to the Congress Of Racial Equality was watching Roy Innis brawl on Geraldo the day Rivera got his nose broken. He didn’t start it, but nobody got the better of him that day. Since then, I have seen him challenge David Dinkins in NYC, speak many times in favor of the Second Amendment and help expose the Tawana Brawley lie. If Roy is any indication, his son Niger will call ‘em as he sees ‘em, regardless of party affiliation, and I commend CORE for stepping up.
Posted by JimK at 02:14 PM on October 22, 2002
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