Daylight Come and Me Wanna Club Harry with a Cluebat

In 2002 Harry Belafonte had nothing nice to say about Black Republicans. He even likened then Secretary of State Colin Powell to a "House Nigger". I guess he can't go two years without spouting his anti-black Republican meme. In Harry Belafonte Calls Black Republicans 'Tyrants' Harry is at it again.

Belafonte used a Hitler analogy when asked about what impact prominent blacks such as former Secretary of State Powell and current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had on the Bush administration's relations with minorities.

"Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value," Belafonte said in an exclusive interview with Cybercast News Service.

"[If] a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated," he added.

I used to admire and respect Harry Belafonte. He was a role model to many African Americans when they needed positive images to aspire to. Now I pity the cynical self hating loser he's become. I cringe every time I read that he's opened his mouth about something political. Someone should put him out of my misery with repeated applications of a chrome-plated cluebat.

I have no doubt that Harry is trying to stir up controversy. He's making no sense with these groundless accusations against conservative blacks. In the above article the reporter tries to nail Harry down on his tyrant speech.

When asked specifically who was a "black tyrant" in the Bush administration, Belafonte responded to this reporter, "You." When this reporter noted that he was a Caucasian and attempted to ask another question, Belafonte abruptly ended the interview by saying, "That's it."

Liberal black leadership suffers the same disease as all liberal leadership in this country. They come out against everything and they don't stand for anything. They called on us as blacks to improve ourselves, to make the best of every oppurtunity. They made sacrifices so that we could have some oppurtunities that we may not have gotten otherwise. So what happens when black achieve and accel? They are tyrants. The U.S.'s first African American Secretary of State is a tyrant because he was appointed by a Republican. Is the U.S.'s second African American Secretary of State and first African American woman to that post a tyrant for the same reason? It seems to me that Mr. Belafonte has issues with President Bush and he has allowed his feelings to blind him to the fact that the very people he calls tyrants have accomplished the very things black leaders in the 60's called upon us to do. Harry said that color does not denote quality, content or value. He missed the whole point. We have gotten past the part where we judge by color.

Hat Tip: Outside The Beltway