By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
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 rights groups and labor union representatives, was intended to drum up support for extending and strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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. See Video
When asked specifically who was a "black tyrant" in the Bush administration, Belafonte responded to this reporter, "You."
5 comments:
hahaha! Belafonte is the real deal. I don't think folks these days really understand.
he is a rock star for this! i am loving how he didn't let WB get him caught up in the symantics of who the bigger boogeyman is or a silly game of "but what came first, the chicken or the egg."
"a terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist."
Who the hell is W. BLITZER? And what is his real agenda? I wish Blitzer would have asked him if he called someone a fag back stage.
LOL.
Good question. Who the hell is Wolf Blitzer and whom does he represent? He comes off less like a journalist and more like a lobbyist for Israel.
How was Belafonte hatin'? What was his point?
Ultimately Big J, it's all socialism.
Fascism is simply socialism with the state replaced by corporations.
Haliburton.
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