Project 21 Rejects Belafonte’s Rantings
Despite his apparent disdain for America, Belafonte was in New York City on January 12, along with actress Marlo Thomas and Senator Hillary Clinton, to participate in a fundraising luncheon at the luxurious Rainbow Room for the Children’s Defense Fund. “It’s tough to believe that a U.S. senator would show up at an event featuring someone as inflammatory as Harry Belafonte,” said Project 21 member Ak’Bar Shabazz. “After calling our President a tyrant and a terrorist, one would assume that Senator Clinton would have the decency to show her disdain for such radicalism by repudiating him or simply refusing to appear in the same forum as him.”
This hasn’t been a good week for Hillary. Earlier, I criticized her for going AWOL on not participating in the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the use of body armor. Now she took part in a fundraiser with ultra-leftist Harry Belafonte. Shame on her.
Belafonte is the biggest racist that I’ve seen this side of David Duke. He’s notorious for saying “referring to Bush Administration officials Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as ‘house slaves.’” He’s also said “in a televised Christmas Eve speech ‘the world has wealth for all, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, have taken over all the wealth of the world.’”
And still Hillary shares the podium with this racist anti-Semite? I’ll just be blunt about this: Hillary’s political sense is God-awful. People calling her a great politican are super-imposing Bill’s political instincts on her and frankly, I don’t see that. AT ALL!!! As far as I can tell, Hillary’s instincts have proven to be awful, going back as far as her joint appearance with Arafat’s then-wife, where Arafat’s wife went into an anti-Israel diatribe and Hillary looking on approvingly.
At a Congressional Black Caucus event in September 2005, after Belafonte claimed the Bush White House’s foreign policy “has made a wreck of this planet” and said “I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere,” Sen. Clinton took the stage and said “What Harry said is so important.”
“At a time when Judge Samuel Alito is being taken to task for the actions of a group he slightly was affiliated with decades ago, I think it is only fair to ask Hillary Clinton to explain her praise for the radical Harry Belafonte less than six months ago,” said Project 21 member Kevin Martin. “Harry Belafonte has proven to be a hypocrite in his criticism of American foreign policy while the socialist policies and leaders he has embraced have led to countless deaths in Africa and Third World countries.”
Project 21’s renunciation of Hillary and Mr. Belafonte seems totally fair to me. If Hillary won’t renounce Belafonte’s statements, then she should be taken to task for them. That said, it’s obvious that she agrees with Belafonte in some fairly radical ways.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRing