Tuesday, March 13, 2007

The Nuttiness of Harry Belafonte

  • Harry Belafonte: Great singer.
  • Harry Belafonte: Naive political whack job.

When will entertainers learn that they'd be better off keeping their mouths shut about topics they know little to nothing about. In this BBC interview he continues to slag Condoleeza Rice, a woman who has a long, distinguished career of public service. She is where she is because she's smart and determined. She also happens to be black.

But Belafonte refuses to acknowledge any of her accomplishments because she happens to have different political views than he does. If Belafonte were white he'd quickly be labeled a bigot and rightly so. But because he's black and has strident anti-capitalist views, he gets a pass.

Perhaps not surprisingly, he's a big fan of Cuba's dictator, Fidel Castro. Strangely enough though, he hasn't moved there and continues to enjoy making money in America. In my mind, that makes him a hypocrite.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

One of my co-workers said it best... These folks out in Hollywood do not live in a world of reality. People follow their political points of view, and mostly because of their exposure. This moron is living in the wrong era, and any good he had done in the past has been completely negated by this racist point of view. And anyone that is so negative about our president, his staff and our country needs to go live in one of these terrorist countries and see how long he survives...

Anonymous said...

Honestly I really have to wonder about these comments. just like everybody else mr. Belafonte has the right of freedom of speech. Now I would like to know first of all have you two people done anything for mankind even remotally close to what mr.belafonte has done. For example ambassador of UNICEF or in South Africa in 2002, awarded him the Bishop John T. Walker from Africare with the Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award for his efforts to assist Africa.These are just a few of the things he has done. Now I want to know what have you done. Have you ever been to africa? Have you got any idea of what is really going on in the world?
Now I want to know who are the racists here!!!!!!!!!

Robert W. said...

Dear Anonymous,

Have the decency to come out from beneath your veil of secrecy and then I'll gladly respond to your question.

Robert