Googling Around with Harry Belafonte

The Conning Tower ^ | 1-30-03 | Trentino

[Davis]

When I set out to learn something about Harry Belafonte's condemnation of Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, I began by googling Belafonte Powell Rice, had no trouble finding the original text, part of a radio interview in San Diego in October of last year. Before the election, you see. A quite strange outburst, it seemed to me, Belafonte referring to those eminences as house slaves. Grotesque. How similar his language to that of Amiri Baraka, once the poet laureate of the entire State of New Jersey but now, evidently, his domain emeritus has been reduced to the City of Newark only. I responded to Baraka in my Pome. (If you google pome baraka trentino POME comes up solo.)

The burden of Belafonte's denunciation of Rice and Powell was ominously similar to black schoolkids taunting diligent black schoolkids with "acting white." Didn't Belafonte see this? Was he asserting that no black could work in a Republican administration without having previously sold his soul? What was he saying on the initial occasion and thereafter? MORE

[Davis]

http://www.atrentino.com/Index.html
Clink here to find the links carried in this piece.

[DoughtyOne]

About thirty years ago, when I was a young man and not inclined to be political, I heard Belefonte make a series of short comments that seared a permanent image of him that I will never forget. It was clear this man hated this nation with a pasion I would find it hard to match even for sex.

The idea was that the US was guilty of every evil on the planet and should basicly be taken down. At the time it seemed to me he could very easily be capable of violence.

End of story for that guy. I wrote him off then, he's still written off today.

[Sam Cree]

Wish I had noticed it 30 years ago. I liked him for a long time, his music brings childhood memories. However, I'll not listen to him again.

[DoughtyOne]

I liked his acting and singing abilities too. It just goes to highlight the danger of blind allegence to a well known person. Generally speaking, actors and other notables are unworthy of our support for anything more than their business persona. Much of the time not even that. This guy is a prime example.

[Davis]

Susan Sarandon was on tv yesterday whining about being called "anti-American." Ain't it interesting they want the right to say anything they wanna say about anything, but don't wanna take responsibility for their words?

Ok, I render them all irrelevant.

[DoughtyOne]

Poor Susan understands very well that she has every right to make assessments and make an ass out of herself in public if she wants. What she doesn't understand very well is that we have the right to make our own assessments and voice them in public also. She's getting just what I expected her to get. She's a dim witted idiot. Too bad for her that the rest of the nation now knows it. She had a right to do what she did no matter how ill advised it was. Well Susan, welcome to reality. If you voice the thoughts of an imature child in public, the grownups are going to act accordingly. LMRO

[hrhdave]

You're right on the mark. Sarandon and the other Hollywood dim bulbs can't imagine there are citizens who disagree with them and will answer back and take other action. They don't want to be held responsible for the consequences of what they say. They want their speech to be without cost to them.

That's not the way it works, kiddies. Take the tinsel off your brains.

[DoughtyOne]

Get em! ;)