Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:05:00
Daylight come an’ me wanna punch Harry in the face
Now, I talked a bit about this before,but the latest thing he’s said has me mad again.
Mr. King asked Mr. Belafonte whether any of his Hollywood comrades thought he may have gone too far in slurring the secretary of state and former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff just because he happens to be black man in Republican administration.
No, said Mr. Belafonte, though some of his fellow Hollywooders “thought that the public was going to have a big problem because the public does not come from the same kind of a sophisticated sense of history and all the different things that I’ve been exposed to.”
Who in the hell does Belafonte think he is? Does he truly believe he’s justified in calling Colin Powell a “house nigger” because he “comes from a sophisticated sense of history?” Have you ever heard of such arrogance? I’m more determined than ever to avoid anything with which this man has involvement. He is literally saying that he and his friends think we aren’t smart enough to understand what he meant when he called Colin Powell a house nigger.
As if there is anything to understand? As if a level of sophistication could all of a sudden open our eyes and make us say “Well, looky there, I sees it all now, Massuh Harry! You sho am the smartses, how you done tole’ ole Unka Tom Powell to gets back in his place, fo’ sho’nuff!”
Belafonte is a piece of shit, plain and simple. I don’t care what kind of sophistication he supposedly comes from. He has a personal issue with Powell that is clearly political, and he reached down deep, looking for the worst thing he could think of to demonstrate his disdain, and in doing so became far worse than what he envisions Powell to be. He’s the worst kind of racist; he hates his own if they don’t align with him politically.
Collin Levey of The Wall Street Journal provided the quote above, and they provide this one as well…
We can’t go too far along this line, though, without offering a little equal time. One of the newspaper stories of the last week recounting the contretemps recalled that though the two men have friendly relations, Mr. Powell, who is of Jamaican descent and a noted authority on Calypso music, had been known to express a judgment that Mr. Belafonte’s Calypso songs weren’t “the real thing.”
Oh...now I get it. Powell insulted his music, and now he’s hell-bent on revenge.
I hope everyone remembers that the next time Mr. Belafonte tries to preach on one political or social topic or another. His opinion is conditional on whether or not you like his music.
Posted by JimK at 09:05 AM on October 21, 2002
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