Posted on 08/09/2005 5:39:43 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
A leading Holocaust Studies institute wants entertainers Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory, and Woody Allen to retract their recent statements comparing the Bush administration, Israelis, and black conservatives to Nazis.
As Cybercast News Service reported, Belafonte over the weekend used a Hitler analogy when asked what impact prominent blacks such as former Secretary of State Colin 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.
That's incorrect, said Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which describes itself as a research and education institute focusing on America's response to the Holocaust.
"Some entertainers simply don't know much about history," said Medoff. "The fact is that there were no Jews in Hitler's hierarchy; the policies of America and Israel are not similar to those of Hitler; and African-American conservatives are not comparable to Nazis."
The Wyman Institute (located at Gratz College in suburban Philadelphia) is urging the three entertainers to publicly retract their "inaccurate and hurtful" remarks about Hitler and the Holocaust.
"Such analogies pollute public discourse by trivializing the brutal horrors committed by the Nazis," Medoff said.
"Hitler was a maniacal dictator whose regime systematically annihilated six million Jews, and launched a world war that caused the deaths of more than forty million people. How can any reasonable person put Hitler and the Nazis in the same sentence as American or Israeli leaders, or black conservatives?"
Comedian Dick Gregory, also interviewed by Cybercast News Service, said that African-American conservatives "have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?"
Earlier this summer, comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen told the German magazine Der Spiegel: "The history of the world is like, he kills me, I kill him -- only with different cosmetics and different castings: so in 2001 some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other." (Der Spiegel, June 20, 2005)
Pity he couldn't have stuck to that statement alone. Instead he had to demonstrate that he's a 78 yr old barking moonbat.
It doesn't matter that Durbin was handed his head and had to eat crow, the only thing that matters is lie, lie, lie so they can win. Don't worry about it guys.
Do you notice that they are more strident and more desperate since the election that the "almost" won last week? They celebrated an almost win and acted like they had really pulled one off but the leaders know it was just another shovelful of dirt on their coffin.
Why stop these fools from making bigger fools of themselves?
There's nothing to "prove"
They might as well be saying that the moon is made of green cheese. That they get media attention at all is an artifact of our tolerance for moron "entertainers".
A tempest in a teapot.
If I wanted to hide my valuables, I'd disguise the box as a serious book and give it to a left-wing celebrity. It would be safer than a vault because they'd never open it. One of those dimwits would just wander from room to room with it, wondering which set of drapes best match the cover.
Absolutely correct!
Don't hold your breath.
When the person is so blinded by partisan political hate they become incapable of reasonable thought or discourse.
***Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value," Belafonte said in an exclusive interview with Cybercast News Service.***
What color is Bellafonte anyway?
Yellow, or at least the stripe down his back is.
What a fracking idiot.
You got that right. LOL
Harry Belafonte is a washed-up singer and Dick Gregory is a washed-up comedian - who cares what they think? Demanding apologies from them just puffs them up even more.
He just admitted he said it and said it was correct.
You hit the nail on the head!
Or much about anything else.
Who gives a s**t what these radical idiots think. Nobody's listening and fewer and fewer are watching the radical morons.
What is with our culture and the odd fixation with apologies?
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