Posted on 10/11/2011 8:05:40 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty
Full title: Belafonte Attacks Cain: 'A Bad Apple' 'So Denied Intelligence' 'Don’t think prayers were created for him'
In a "Joy Behar Show" segment scheduled to be aired on HLN Friday, singer Harry Belafonte attacked Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain in potentially the most disgraceful manner of any media member to date.
While his host and others on the set laughed, Belafonte called Cain "a bad apple" that was "so denied intelligence...I don’t think prayers were created for him" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JOY BEHAR, HOST: Now, let me interrupt you for a second, because now you have someone like Herman Cain.
HARRY BELAFONTE: Who?
BEHAR: Herman Cain?
BELAFONTE: Herman Cain?
BEHAR: You know who he is. [Laughs] And he doesn’t believe that racism holds anyone back in any way now. I mean, you know, what do you think about that statement?
BELAFONTE: Well, you know, it’s very hard to comment on somebody who is so denied intelligence…
[LAUGHTER FROM BEHAR AND OTHERS IN THE STUDIO]
BELAFONTE: … and certainly someone who is as denied a view of history such as he reveals. He knows very little. Because he happened to have had good fortune hit him, because he happened to have had a moment when he broke through, the moment someone blinked, does not make him the authority on the plight of people of color. […]
BELAFONTE: I just want to make this observation about Herman Cain. The Republican Party, the Tea Party, all those forces to the extreme right have consistently tried to come up with representation for what they call black, what they call the real negroes, and try to push these images as the kinds of voices that America should be living through. So we got Condoleezza Rice, we got Colin Powell. I know they’re heroes for some people, but for a lot of us they’re not.
And Herman Cain is just the latest incarnation of what is totally false to the needs of our community, and the needs of our nation. I think he’s a bad apple, and people should look at his whole card. He’s not what he says he is.
BEHAR: No. I don’t think he has a prayer anyway in the election actually.
BELAFONTE: I don’t think prayers were created for him.
[LAUGHTER FROM BEHAR AND OTHERS IN THE STUDIO]
It’s like Booker T Washington warned people a century ago, there are certain people who don’t want racism to end, because it would end their money train. They have to invent racism to continue to justify their existence.
Uhhh, Harry, or shall I call you "Boo-boo, " You are the one hit with good fortune. God blessed you with a beautiful voice. (It's gone now, but was beautiful back then.)
Herman Cain and his parents worked for what they have, unblessed with natural talents like you were.
So shut the f&ck up Boo-Boo and crawl back into your hole.
The liberals are bringing all these senile old black guys out of mothballs to say the things about another black guy the white liberals don't have the guts to say. Entertaining, in a gibberish sort of way.
“Because he happened to have had good fortune hit him, because he happened to have had a moment when he broke through, the moment someone blinked, does not make him the authority on the plight of people of color”.
The narcissist is speaking about himself. He, like Obama, has no ancestral connection to American history. Son of immigrant parents. Jealousy and envy.
Of course Herman Cain is only the recipient of dumb luck. In Belafonte's mind there is no other way a black person can be successful except to be a recipient of a freak act, or sell out to the white man. There's no way in Harry's world that a black man could ever be elected President...
Ooops. That just happened, didn't it? Must be dumb luck or someone blinked.
Harry Belafonte: lefty step `n fetchit Oreo.
Boy, nothing infuriates liberals more than a successful conservative Black man (or woman).
Boy, nothing infuriates liberals more than a successful conservative Black man (or woman).
“so denied intelligence” ??? Speak English, man!
Behar constructs a strawman anyhow. Cain did not say racism poses no problems at all to black people who pursue success, only that it’s a far smaller problem than they think.
He’s presuming he’s God’s special buddy who can say what people are gifted with without benefit of any objective measure other than whether they agree or disagree with the left.
When I want serious insightful political or cultural analysis, I turn to Harry Belafonte.
Belafonte is a mongrel commie thug. He can’t like a successful Black man who is a conservative...it goes against all his commie thug doctrine. This really p*sses off the manager/overseer [belafonte] of the Master’s Plantation.
Belafonte is a red diaper baby, a red to the core, card carrying member of the Communist party USA (CPUSA). He hates the US with a very deep passion and never has anything good to say about the US.
The first person who can name a successful Republican Black Man who is NOT called an Uncle Tom by democraps wins.
Anyone?
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Anyone...?
I GOT ONE! Wait....um....hmmm.....nope. No, I don’t. Dang. I really wanted to see what the prize was.
From his Wikipedia page:
On his ‘attending’ George Washington Highs school:
^ Arenson, Karen W. “Commencements; Belafonte Lauds Diversity Of Baruch College Class”, The New York Times,” June 2, 2000. Accessed April 16, 2008. “(He said that he had not gotten past the first year at George Washington High School, and that the only college degrees he had were honorary ones.)”
And he calls Cain stupid?
As a side note; CPUSA endorsed Obama for president in 08 and again endorsed him for president in 12. Isn’t that special!
Actually a good book called castro, hollywoods dictator talks about how they treat blacks and tell them how they were monkeys that they pulled out of a tree and cut off their tails.
just trying to picture harry with a tail.
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