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HE is a media darling, a paparazzi target and a source of inspiration for millions of Democrats who dream of retaking the White House in 2008. But Senator Barack Obama, the charismatic African-American who is shaking up the presidential primary race, has not impressed some of America’s most powerful black activists. Civil rights leaders who have dominated black politics for much of the past two decades have pointedly failed to embrace the 45-year-old Illinois senator who is considering a bid to become America’s first black president. At a meeting of activists in New York last week, the Rev Jesse Jackson,...

CARACAS, Venezuela The government of Venezuelan has donated 100-thousand dollars to a Santa Cruz-based non-profit organization dedicated to preventing violence among youths. Deputy Justice Minister Yuri Pimentel made the announcement during a meeting in Venezuela's capital with American singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who accepted the donation on behalf of the California Coalition of Barrios Unidos. The California Coalition of Barrios Unidos began as a community based peace movement in the violent streets of urban California in 1977.

(Note: Profanities edited out for family audiences, don't click the link if you are 4-letter word sensitive) Danny Glover is Full of ItDanny Glover is full of it. Not just because he's a pompous liberal windbag, either. Here's a few choice stories regarding Senor Glover's public political stance just in case you haven't heard from him since Lethal Weapon 4: A Fox News story relates Danny's reaction to news of Ronald Reagan's demise: "We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move...

GARY, Ind. - Entertainer Harry Belafonte renewed his criticism of President Bush and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan urged education reform during the second day of the 2006 National Black Peoples Unity Convention. The four-day gathering is aimed at developing a long-term economic empowerment plan for blacks. Farrakhan said the U.S. educational system has failed to teach blacks basic skills and how to succeed after graduation and requires massive restructuring. "Black people all over America and all over the world, there is something wrong with the way we have been trained in a white supremacist, racist environment," Farrakhan told...

Arts, Culture And Media: Garry Cobb - What A Sad State Of The African-American Union Posted by: admin on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 04:32 PM [ Edit ] [ Delete ] I approached C-Span's production of Tavis Smiley's yearly State Of The African-American Union with positive anticipation. I was hoping that unlike the past events which were nothing but blame Bush and bash Bush showcases, this year's would be about tangible moves that individuals, families and groups could make to improve the lives of black Americans nationwide. Thankfully I did hear some encouraging comments from former Congressman Rev. Floyd...

WASHINGTON -- Conservative groups urged Congress on Tuesday to end all federal funds to AARP, saying it was wrong for the seniors group to be receiving tens of millions in taxpayer dollars at the same time it was campaigning against administration policies. "AARP does not have the right to expect taxpayers to foot the bill to help advance its political agenda," said John Carlisle of the National Legal and Policy Center, author of a paper on federal funding to the seniors organization. David Sloane, senior managing director of government relations at AARP, said the paper was a "sour grapes" response...

North America appears to be the only place on earth where someone who hasn’t finished high school, but can sing or dance, can make political pronouncements and have everyone listen as if they were profound. The latest in a long line of entertainers who are choosing to yak instead of sing is Harry Belafonte, who, while cuddling up to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and claiming to be a great admirer of Fidel Castro, pronounced George W. Bush to be the world’s most fearsome terrorist.

Venezuela is going on a "buying spree" for military equipment that goes beyond the country's legitimate needs, according to the U.S. State Department. The warning comes on the heels of U.S. efforts to block a proposed sales of military aircraft - including 20 planes costing $200 million - and other equipment to Venezuela by Spain and Brazil. Such sales are part of what "we would consider an outsized military buildup in Venezuela," according to State Department spokesman Sean McCormack who added that the government of President Hugo Chavez - considered by some to be a younger version of Fidel Castro...

From an Associated Press dispatch last Monday: "The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President George W. Bush ‘the greatest terrorist in the world' yesterday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez." The report noted that "Belafonte led a delegation of Americans, including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West, that met with the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday." At the meeting, Belafonte referred to the U.S. President as the "greatest tyrant in the world." Chavez is viewed in Venezuela as an enemy of...

We all remember high school and how awkward it was to break up with someone you had been seeing. You rarely just told someone it was over. Usually you just drifted away, often hiding from the other person, until they got the message and left you alone. Though, it seemed easier at the time, I’m sure it was actually far more difficult, lasted longer and created far more damage to both parties. And so it is in adult

_________________________________________ _________________________________________ Harry's latest 'boo-boo'--------------------------------------------------------Posted: January 13, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Just when you think the folks who comprise America's entertainment world can't sink to a new low in America-bashing, one of them goes and opens their mouth. The latest individual who seems to think the grass is greener on the totalitarian side of the world is crooner Harry Belafonte. Belafonte was leading a delegation of Americans to Venezuela to praise the nation's leader, leftist strongman, Hugo Chavez. Chavez has implemented a socialist takeover of Venezuela, and he sees himself in the style of one of his political...

I have a post about this on my blog I hope to update when more information comes in on this. I'm asking you all to let me know if you know anything about this, because I couldn't find much other than bloggers talking about it, but it all started with a blog called "The Politicker" at the New York Observer's site, only it wasn't sourced. I would expect them to be responsible enough to have checked this before running with it though, and it's nothing "unbelievable" anyway. The long and the short is the Belafonte (who just called Bush the...

Dear Mr. Belafonte, Allow me to be of service to you...... ___________________________ Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship by Persons Claiming a Right of Residence in the U.S. RENUNCIATION OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP BY PERSONS CLAIMING A RIGHT OF RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES Section 349(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act [8 U.S.C. 1481] governs how a U.S. citizen shall lose U.S. nationality. Section 349(a) states: A person who is a national of the United States whether, by birth or naturalization, shall lose his nationality by voluntarily performing any of the following acts with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality: (5)...

HAS HARRY BELAFONTE LOST HIS MIND? Rev. Peterson Believes Belafonte’s Meeting With Hugo Chavez Constitutes Treason Los Angeles- Calypso singer and liberal activist Harry Belafonte led an American delegation including actor Danny Glover to meet with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez this past Sunday. Belafonte joined Chavez on his radio and TV broadcast and railed against President Bush, calling him “the greatest terrorist in the world.” This latest act by Belafonte to associate himself with a clear enemy of the United States has caused BOND founder and President Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson to question Belafonte’s sanity. Rev. Peterson said: “Harry Belafonte’s...

American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday in Caracas. Some in the group attended Chavez's television and radio broadcast Sunday. "No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds,...

NOTHING BRINGS OUT RACIST slurs like an ambitious black man who doesn't know his ''place." So when Maryland's lieutenant governor, Michael Steele, announced his candidacy for the US Senate recently, the bigots reared up. On one popular website, The News Blog, Steele's picture was grotesquely doctored, making him look like a minstrel-show caricature. ''I's Simple Sambo and I's Running for the Big House," read the insulting headline accompanying the picture. This wasn't some white supremacist slime from the right-wing fringe. The News Blog is a liberal site, and the reason for its racist attack on Steele, a former chairman of...

Teach the Fundamentals September 23, 2005 Download Windows Media PlayerListen to Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence via Windows Media Player (highly recommended by poster) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I got an e-mail last night, and I get a few of these but there's so much e-mail, I don't have a systemized response. But something about this e-mail I got yesterday compelled me to reply. It was an e-mail for a college student out in Oregon, and he had been given an assignment by his liberal professor. It's a big essay question related to a theory in some journalist's book, and he...

Atlanta (CNSNews.com) - Celebrity activist Harry Belafonte referred to prominent African-American officials in the Bush administration as "black tyrants" at a weekend march, and he also compared the administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. Belafonte, a featured speaker at Saturday's march in Atlanta commemorating the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, previously ignited a political controversy in 2002 when he likened then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to a "house slave." At Saturday's civil rights march, Belafonte said the Bush administration has been "rather dismal" for the lives of black Americans. The march, which featured prominent civil...

Redford: Tyranny's useful idiot Posted: January 29, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Cuban dictator Fidel Castro wooed Robert Redford in Havana this week. It was hardly necessary. Redford has been doing Castro's bidding for years without being seduced by the tyrant of the Caribbean. "He came to me," Redford told Reuters. "He seemed to be in good health, good humor, good spirit." Castro wanted to congratulate Redford on his new film, "The Motorcycle Diaries," lionizing his old comrade-in-arms, Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Che Guevara. "I came to present the film that I produced on Che Guevara and I am very...

DUVALL,SI -- SPIELBERG NO! By Don Feder . There aren’t many people in Hollywood with the guts to take on a heavyweight like Steven Spielberg. That makes Robert Duvall part of an elite – showbiz types with courage and a conscience. In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, the man who played Lt. Col. Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now” gave the director of “Saving Pvt. Ryan” a little verbal napalm in the morning. Commenting on Spielberg’s 2002 trip to Cuba, Duvall innocently remarked: “Now I want to ask him (Spielberg) – and I know he’s going to get pissed off –...

POLICY AGAINST CUBA IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY An exclusive interview with Harry Belafonte By Sandra Levinson Cubanow.- What kind of commitment does it take to still be here, supporting Cuba, after all these years? I don't see it as a supreme effort, it's a way of life: if you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind, I don't know if you have any other choice than to be there for as long as it takes. But, what I...

Event Name: Harry Belafonte and Friends Time: 8 p.m. Venue: Atlanta Civic Center View Map/Directions Neighborhood: Midtown Atlanta Cost: $24-$100 Information: 404-881-8885 Tickets: 404-817-8700 Web Site: www.atlantaopera.org An Atlanta Opera benefit.

Sunday, September 21, 2003Poor urged to go to polls -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Belafonte sings praises of voting By Dan Klepal The Cincinnati Enquirer Harry Belafonte's voice helped him become a pop singing icon and a movie star. On Saturday, the 76-year-old actor, crooner and political activist used his still-strong and silky voice at First Lutheran Church in Over-the-Rhine to urge people to empower themselves by voting. Belafonte was the main speaker at a workshop to teach people about public policy, register them to vote and help them with community organizing. It is the first of a series of workshops that will be...

OSSINING, N.Y. (AP)--Pete Seeger was in New York City's Union Square in 1953 along with 5,000 other supporters of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as the hour of the couple's execution drew near. ``We were waiting and hoping Eisenhower would give a last-minute reprieve,'' says Seeger, now 84. ``We learned that wouldn't happen, and then a great sigh, a great wail went up from the crowd when the time came and we knew they'd been executed.'' On the 50th anniversary of the execution Thursday, Seeger, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte and other show business activists will appear at a benefit for the...

Vargas Llosa on Friday took a swipe at the Colombian Nobel Literature Prize winner and longtime friend of the Cuban leader, calling him "a writer who is a courtesan of Fidel Castro, whom the dictatorship holds up as an intellectual alibi." "And he so far has come to accept very well all the abuses, the trampling of human rights that the Cuban dictatorship has committed, saying that secretly he helps some political prisoners get released," the Peruvian-born Vargas Llosa told Caracol radio. "It is no secret to anyone that Fidel Castro hands over some political prisoners to his courtesans once...

<p>HAVANA — Singer Harry Belafonte, who recently called Secretary of State Colin L. Powell a "house slave," has joined actor Danny Glover and more than 160 artists and intellectuals to defend Fidel Castro's government against criticism over its recent crackdown on dissent.</p>

In the wake of the execution without trial of three hijackers and the sentencing of 75 Cuban dissidents to long prison terms, more than 160 so-called intellectuals from around the world, including two Nobel Prize winners, have signed a declaration defending Fidel Castro's brutal regime. Among the "intellectuals" signing the two-paragraph declaration "To the Conscience of the World," a vicious attack on their own country, were two Hollywood has-beens: Democrat house slave and washed-up calypso singer Harry Belafonte, who has a far higher opinion of the Cuban tyrant than of Colin Powell and Condi Rice, and former movie star Danny...

In the wake of the execution without trial of three hijackers and the sentencing of 75 Cuban dissidents to long prison terms, more that 160 so-called intellectuals from around the world, including two Nobel Prize winners, have signed a declaration defending Fidel Castro's brutal regime. Among the "intellectuals" signing the two-paragraph declaration "To the Conscience of the World," a vicious attack on their own country, were two Hollywood has-beens: Democrat house slave and washed-up calypso singer Harry Belafonte, who has a far higher opinion of the Cuban tyrant than of Colin Powell and Condi Rice, and former movie star...

We hear so much about young Americans -- teenagers and early 20s -- who give Americans a bad name. Then we watch our young GIs and our chest swells with pride.

Actor/Director Tim Robbins hates free speech. So does his long-term partner, Susan Sarandon, as well as Janeane Garafolo, Martin Sheen, The Dixie Chicks, Mike Farrell, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Harry Belafonte, Ed Asner, Danny Glover, Chrissie Hynde, and other ''anti-war'' celebrities. They only love free speech when they are using it to bash the military, President Bush, and America, both in our own media and overseas. However, when the American consumer, offended by their blame-America first rhetoric, reacts with petitions and boycotts, the words ''blacklist,'' ''undermining free speech'' and ''suppressing dissent'' are used by these celebrities. Hollywood is scared, because...

Cuba’s REAL Rebels – and DuncesHumberto FontovaSaturday, Feb. 15, 2003Mayor Ed Koch’s recent article jolted me from my seat. It reminded me that Kurt Waldheim was persona non grata in the U.S. because he’d been a Nazi functionary in the Balkans and either participated in or "had knowledge of" Nazi executions of partisans. Actually, that’s fine with me. Even before those revelations, Waldheim always struck me as a sleazy liar, an obfuscator and a rat. No wonder he rose so high so fast at the U.N. He was the perfect U.N. secretary-general. But let me get this straight: "Having knowledge"...

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...

More and more celebrities using fame to back causes 12/26/2002 Associated Press NEW YORK - From the moment Sean Penn arrived in Baghdad, eager to advance the cause of peace, he was doomed - a dead man talking. He was a celebrity, like so many other celebrities who have waded into the treacherous waters of politics or international relations. So he walked gingerly - he was there, he said, "to learn and not to teach." He avoided reporters. And he was careful not to say or do anything that would cause a meltdown at home. So the Iraqis did...

I was totally enthralled with the performance of Barbra Streisand in the 1973 movie, "The Way We Were." Before that her '68 performance in "Funny Girl" was classic. But her performance lately on the political stage has not been one of her best roles. She's been a real disappointment. Julia Roberts was everybody's "sweetheart" in Steel Magnolias, and after that I didn't want to miss a single movie. But when she entered the political arena saying, "Bush is not my candidate . . . the word 'Republican' in the dictionary comes between 'reptile and repugnant,'" my respect for her acting...

Filed at 1:28 p.m. ET In his famous, fervent speeches of the 1960s, Malcolm X described the difference between house slaves, who lived in comfortable conditions in the master's house and loved the master, and slaves laboring in the field, who hated the master. The house slaves, he implied, were mainstream civil rights groups and leaders, who he thought were too closely aligned with whites. Now it's a term being used by activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte to describe Secretary of State Colin Powell. And Belafonte, who opposes a war on Iraq, isn't apologizing. Belafonte told The Associated Press he...

Harry Belafonte popped up on a San Diego radio show last Tuesday and likened Secretary of State Colin Powell to a plantation slave. Then, he compared Condeleeza Rice to Aunt Jemima (the old one who wore a scarf instead of pearls) and called Justice Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom. O.K., so, he didn’t really say those things about Rice or Thomas. But he might as well have. The point Belafonte was making was that black people do not have the right to have conservative views or to be Republicans. Any powerful black people who profess to think this way must...

Filed at 8:42 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Harry Belafonte said on Friday he stands by remarks likening Secretary of State Colin Powell to a plantation slave who is ``serving his master well'' but insisted he never meant to defame the former general. ``This was not a personal attack on Colin Powell,'' Belafonte said in a statement issued through his New York-based publicist. ``However ... speaking on behalf of so many African American citizens, I have found Colin Powell to be a tragic failure.'' Belafonte, 75, who like Powell is a black man of Jamaican descent, responded in...

Legendary performer and activist Harry Belafonte spoke with Ted on a recent show. Mr. Belafonte, who has a long history of political activism, spoke out about John Ashcroft, Colin Powell and our foreign policy during his talk with Ted. Of Powell, Belafonte said, "there's an old saying, in the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master...exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him…Colin Powell's committed to come into the...

Drudge reports on the comments of our most recent Hollywood moron, Harry Belafonte. Additionally, last night Bill O'Reilly of Fox News' O'Reilly Factor blasted Belafonte for his scathing criticism of Secretary of State Colin Powell. From Drudge..... Singer Harry Belafonte took to the AM radio waves on Tuesday morning to slam Secretary of State Colin Powell as a sellout to the black race! Belafonte, appearing on San Diego's 760 KFMB, told host Ted Leitner that Powell was like a plantation slave who moves into the slave owner's house and only says what his master wants him to say. Belafonte's comparisons...

http://www.geocities.com/dcjarviks/Idler/vIIIn61.html =============================================================== Belafonte Croons for Fidel By Mario Ramirez, 3-18-01 Being a life long New Yorker I can very confidently tell you that I have seen and heard almost everything. If it's not Hillary Clinton carpet bagging New York, or the latest charade by Al Sharpton, it has to be the urban legends about alligators roaming Manhattan sewers. It's no surprise that very few things shock or disturb me. So I wasn't the least startled when on March 11, 2001 I had the pleasure of spending a "lovely" Sunday afternoon listening to that consummate performer and ambassador of "goodwill"...

Filed at 4:21 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Actor Mike Farrell, armed with a letter signed by 70 fellow celebrities, urged senators on Tuesday to vote against a plan to bury the nation's nuclear power waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Calling claims of safety for the Yucca site ``technically unfounded,'' the former ``M-A-S-H'' star said transporting the 77,000 tons of waste to Nevada would create ``an enormous target for someone who has an ill intention.'' Farrell, who now plays a veterinarian on the NBC series ``Providence,'' delivered the letter a day before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee plans...