In this telephone interview, Belafonte compares Colin Powell to a slave who “got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master…exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.” Because we haven’t heard from Colin Powell lately, that means he has been turned out of the house just for disagreeing.
The passage in question starts at about 12 minutes into the interview.
I would think you’d know this, Harry, but if a white guy doesn’t do the job his boss wants, he’ll won’t be in the house any more either. And of course, you always accepted all of your musicians or support staff who disagreed with you.
You are now officially on the list of idiotarians. Jerk.
I love the implicit message that, if you’re not a liberal Democrat, you’re a traitor to the black race.
uuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh … yeah.
“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.”
Uh-huh. Sure. I can vividly remember how Powell was banging at the door, begging Bush for a job in his cabinet.
He was practically dragged kicking and screaming to the Capitol!
I believe in using this sparingly, but at times, it is so obviously called for: :rolleyes:
No he doesn’t, he’s just a nocturnal banana stacker. The tallyman tallies Belafonte’s bananas ‘cause daylight come and he wan’ go home an’ drink some rum.
And why the hell is he stacking bananas at night, anyway?
All this reminds of when someone shouted “nigger” to the then American ambassdor to Sweden. There was a big commotion about it and no one really cared when the shouter, who BTW was a black American himself, explained to the media that “I never called him a nigger. I called him a house nigger, which is something completely different”.
Eh, me say “day”, me say “day”, me say day-ay-ay-o, daylight come and me wan’ go home.
I can’t play the sound file at work, but I’m curious why Harry Belafonte (who, to be fair, has a sterling record of humanitarian and civil rights work) thinks Colin Powell is a “house nigger.” It seems to me that General Powell, who worked his up through the ranks while enduring racism and the backroom scuffles of DC politics, is an excellent example of the rewards of discipline and hard work. Why is it you never hear liberal blacks denounce Jesse Jackson, adulterer, corporate shakedown artist, and cuddler of dictators?
Well, at least his daughter’s a major hottie. I saw her photo spread in Playboy a few years ago, and at 45, she has the body of a 25 year old. Hummina!
Of course, I don’t suppose that says anything about Harry’s political credibility…
Yeah, it was a pretty asinine thing to say, and I’m sure that Belafonte will come to regret saying it. I bet we’ll hear about how he was “taken out of context” or “misquoted”.
How arsinine! Its staggering to think these could be serious remarks. I’d be as willing to believe that he was drunk. Way to go, Harry! Another victory for the black man.
