Harry Belafonte: 'Faced with oppression, I had to act' (Watch)

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• Jayson Jay | July 8, 2012 11:27 PMReply

  "Harm's way" sorry. When will be be sophisticated enough to not to to Hollywood for leadership? I have to laugh if I called Harry an "Uncle Tom" your trained to defend massa instincts would seize on me.

• Carol Olson | July 5, 2012 4:54 PMReply

  I worked for Mr. Belafonte on a film in the 80's. He systematically humiliated me in public settings, called me "whitey," etc., and yet would also call me into his office to discuss how "pretty I was." He's a hypocrite.

• floyd webb | July 7, 2012 5:38 PM

  yeah what film was that. when I see him next week I will cuss him out for you! I need some context though. :-)

• artbizzy | July 5, 2012 5:02 PM

  Oh yeah? What film?

• Jason Jay | July 5, 2012 3:49 PMReply

  I can't stand this self-righteous pompous jackass. Any Hollywood negro married to a white woman to dare call a man like Colin Powell "Uncle Tom" sickens me.

• Jerome | July 5, 2012 4:28 PM

  I can't stand self-righteous trolls. Any simpleton with a moronic, lazy and ill-informed comment on message boards sickens me.
  
  There. Fixed that for you.

• urbanauteur | July 5, 2012 4:19 PM

  Oh really?... some alarmist negroes said the same thing about Frederick Douglass marriage to a white woman and Karl Marx, when his daughter ran off with a Blackman.. does that Dilute the Potency of both these juggernauts???? ..peep out where all the colors in a pack of skittles.

• Missy | July 5, 2012 3:14 PMReply

  I really adore this man. He's a real WARRIOR, unlike so many complacent black celebs today.

• urbanauteur | July 9, 2012 12:41 PM

  J.J., in order for any idiot savant, who wishes to throughly examine something, they know they have to, put it in its proper historical context, being that you are coming from a solely micro-nationalist slant, i can see why your bankrupt premise dont hold water, maybe pee,but not water.
  
  go back and study your history,then it want be no mystery-Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Duse Muhummed Ali,Francis Harper,Ida B.Wells,C.Wright Mills,Eugene Debbs,Willaim Monroe Trotter,Cyrille Briggs,for starters.

• Jayson Jay | July 8, 2012 11:19 PM

  He's an actor. Colin Powell, a man who actually served his country in warns way LITERALLY was a warrior. You have to be nuts to compare Douglass, a man who was an actual slave at one point to an ACTOR. What next compare 50 Cent to Malcolm?

• floydwebb | July 7, 2012 5:42 PM

  I admit, calling Powell an UT is a bit much, but I do see Belafonte's political point. Powell, like my father was a military bureaucrat. Personally I cannot disrespect either of them. As for who he loves....who cares. I am glad he has someone to love and am happy for them both. His work outweighs anything negative anyone can say about him.