Danny Glover is an enigma is that he didn’t show up in Marxist fronts until later in life, just Harry Belafonte (who is, sadly, a hardcore Castroite red).
Funny, Sidney Poitier, another great black actor, stayed out of communist fronts and protests.
Historians will have to go back to the Harlem Renaissance period where many great black talents gathered in the homes of “black intellectuals” and formulated plans to improve the conditions of “colored people” in America, a legitimate issue due to the terrible practices of segregation.
However, many of the black intellectuals became Marxists or black isolationists etc. including W.E.B. DuBois, who was once anti-communist (1930s, in his publicly available FBI files online - His wife Shirley Graham DuBois was a hardcore Communist); the works of Franz Fanon; Marcus Garvey; C.L. R. James (a Caribbean Marxist whom I met - even sat next to him at a CPUSA front on Cuba); Paul Robeson - a Soviet asset and CPUSA member, along with his Party wife, and son; and others.
Some black communists eventually saw the deceptions and fallacies of Communism and defected - Max Yergan; Langston Hughes; Richard Wright; I believe George Schuyler did too; etc.
Belafonte began a marked leftward drift back in either the late 80’s or early 90’s, esp. regarding Cuba, and has supported numerous CPUSA and possibly Workers World Party fronts (The Committee to Free the Cuba Five), etc.
I think that Belafonte was the key influence on Glover in his turn to the Marxist left, IF Glover was not already a cover Marxist for a good while.
Today, writer Alice Walker is also one of the top black writers who is a hardcore Marxist/supporter of Castro/Communist Cuba. Look up her name at www.keywiki.org and read about her record and go to the BlueLinks for much more information on the pro-Castro fronts and their supporters in the US (i.e, Center for Cuban Studies, the old Tri-Continental Information Center, etc).
Today, it looks like not-so-bright blacks such as Colin Kaepernick are the “new face” of the black supporters for Communist Cuba, if that photo of him with a Che Guevara t-shirt is REAL, i.e. not photoshopped.
Soon that great new intellectual Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez will be a new leader of “blacks and Hispanics” for Cuba.
There is no cure for stupidity except education, if their minds can be changed. Otherwise, it’s the same old Marxist crap being drilled into the minds of “celebrities” what will be heard during the 2000’s.
An excellent summary...though discouraging.
I have always think that the black American community made a huge mistake by exalting someone like W.E.B. Dubois and ridiculing someone like Booker T. Washington.
“Harvey Belafonte ain’t black meathead....he’s just a good lookin’ white guy dipped in carmel”. (The usual name mangling, along with some wit and wisdom, from Archie Bunker, 1972.)