Good heavens, you have now debased the term "racism" to such a degree that you not only call the comment racist but Harry Belafonte a racist.
I guess implying Bush or his white house staff are "white master" isn't racist??
And alleging that Powell was like a slave who would be accepted into the white house so long as he does the "massas" will, isn't racist??
God.. I remember when Ev Mecham, the former Governor of Arizona was haranged for defending the use of the word "pickaninny", a term, I myself, have heard black mothers use with regard to their children....
The result was that the state was boycotted by almost every convention planner, Arizona lost the chance to host a Superbowl, Arizona was declared a racist state... and Mecham was investigated inside and out in order to find a way to impeach him out of office.
Now.. Ev Mecham was a moron... no doubt about that... But it seems to me that what Harry Belafonte said was FAR WORSE than Ev Mecham referring to blacks as pickaninnies...
And if it's not racism, then what Belafonte is guilty of is intellectual terorism... an attempt to make blacks afraid of voicing opposing viewpoints to his own...
He'll "terrorize" and slander blacks, and non-blacks alike, to coerce them into adopting his views, lest they be labeled house slaves or cracka's, respectively.
So maybe you need to just settle back and think about what this means to every black person who aspires to have an independent thought and be judged according to their ability, not their color. To be judged based upon merit without facing the fear of being called an "uncle tom" or "house slave"..
Even a "free-thinking" academic like yourself should understand how important it is for people to have the freedom to think and act according to their desires without being slandered as "slaves" or racists..
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