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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (29064)	10/8/2002 5:51:22 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 59480

Polling is more of an art form then a science. It appears that Harry Belafonte forgot to take his medication this morning. Actually, I find his comments to be reprehensible. XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUES OCT 17, 2002 15:30:38 ET XXXXX BELAFONTE SLAMS COLIN POWELL AS RACE SELLOUT Singer Harry Belafonte took to the AM radiowaves 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. "There's an old saying," Belafonte began. "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 house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture." For close to twenty minutes, Belafonte ripped the entire Bush administration, including an attack on Attorney General John Ashcroft. "There's something wrong with men who think the way Ashcroft does and who manipulate the justice system the way he does. Belafonte also sang the praises of the United Nations as a pillar of global democracy, and decried President Bush for failing to attend the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa earlier this year. "There were tens of thousands of peoples and leaders from all over the world gathered to discuss the issue of race. It was an honorable arena... But by not showing up, by sticking it to the government of Nelson Mandela... It was a dark page on our foreign policy." Belafonte is best known for the international hit "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)". -- Filed By Matt Drudge X X X X X