According to entertainer Harry Belafonte, all right-wing voters are racist. First of all, Belafonte hasn’t exactly been relevant since the ’60s. Because of his recent endorsement of Bernie Sanders, the media has suddenly remembered he exists. In a recent interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, he said that the election of President Obama shocked a lot of racist forces in this country, and by racist, he meant anybody who did not vote for him.
From that comment, Belafonte went on to say the “right-wing movement” in America has gerrymandered voting districts and once again put black people at the doorstep, creating new racist definitions and practices. He ten claimed that what was achieved in the Civil Rights Movement has now been reversed.
Belafonte was a part of the original Civil Rights Movement and a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. The Civil Rights Movement hasn’t been reversed, it’s been steamrolled and formed into something void of any remnants of Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks. Instead of equality, it’s become a movement for superiority.
Read a piece of Belafonte’s interview on the next page.
Several high profile black leaders in community service, entertainment, political activism, etc have stated the same. Just sayin
Just like a good little Progressive Regressive, he only sees what he wants to see. He then uses his celebrity status (what’s left of it) to preach his false narrative to anyone who will listen. He is one of the many “guardians” Immanuel Kant warned us about.
It was the black guy that set us back. If your head isn’t up your a….you could see that
He’s like the guy who gets pulled over for driving 30 mph over the speed limit then says he was pulled over for being black.
A decorated Marine says he was assaulted and robbed at a Washington D.C. McDonald’s on Friday by a group who asked him if “black lives mattered.”
Veteran Marine Sgt. Christopher Marquez earned a bronze star for his service in Iraq.
He was famously photographed carrying out a fellow sergeant from the “Hell House” of the Battle of Fallujah – later adapted into two iconic “No Man Left Behind” statues.
But on Friday, none of that seemed to matter to the huddle of four or five people who approached him at a Chinatown McDonald’s, “trying to start a confrontation,” he said.
“The kids were asking me if I think that black lives mattered,” Marquez told The Marine Corps Times.
“I was ignoring them, just because I felt intimidated. I felt how they approached me, it was very hostile.”
One of the suspects reportedly called the Marine a racist, and then hit him with a gun.
He was then knocked unconscious, and his wallet was stolen.
“It’s very ironic: being attacked by the people you [were] there to serve,” said Marquez.
Police are still searching for the suspects, who are said to be mostly men between 16 and 21 years old. 52% OF BLACK BABYS CONCIEVED ARE ABORTED BY THEIR MOTHERS. 93% OF BLACK PEOPLE MURDERED ARE KILLED BY OTHER BLACK PEOPLE AND IT IS WHITE PEOPLE WHO ARE TO BLAME ?
I thought Belafonte was still working on a Banna boat?
Obama set this country back not anybody else. Had Obama been for American and her consitution I would dislike him
No Obama’s had set back race relations 50 years !
hey dumbass he is not a black man
What Harry said would be true IF Right Wingers Voted for the man who is primarily responsible for setting race relations back. That man is Obama.