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.