Posted on 10/20/2021 6:26:38 AM PDT by cotton1706
As the left now offers condolences for the death of Colin Powell it's clarifying to recall what the left was saying about him before he began openly voting Democrat.
Back in 2002, when the Bush administration was leading the country, Powell received what today is a common racial epithet the left uses towards minorities on the right. That year, famed calypso singer Harry Belafonte called Powell a “house slave.”
During an interview with a San Diego-based radio show, Belafonte slammed Powell as that “slave” who got the privilege of living and working in the master’s house.
“There’s an old saying in the days of slavery,” he said, adding, “There are those slaves on the plantation and there were those slaves who lived in the big house. You got the privilege of living in the house to serve the master.” Belafonte pointed to Powell as the slave who had that privilege.
“Colin Powell was permitted to come into the house of the master.”
It wasn't just Powell -- Belafonte included then-National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice. They had earned the smear simply for working in a Republican administration. At the time Powell shrugged off the dig, saying, “I'm serving my nation. I'm serving this president, my president, our president. I'm very happy to do so.”
Other lefties at the time also spoke similarly of Powell. Famous Democrat race-baiters like civil rights leader Jesse Jackson spoke of Powell as if he was an African American that was alien to their group because of his service to the Bush administration. Only a few days after Belafonte’s remark, Jackson told an African American church congregation that Powell is “not on our team.”
The minute Powell started working for a conservative was the minute he should have considered his minority status revoked.
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It is difficult to grasp the utter vileness of the Left and their total disregard for the right of others to lead their own lives and make their own decisions.
Good, Larry Elder is a turncoat anyway.
True in the inhumanity of Democrats. A little confused in the part about Powell working for a conservative earlier this century.
Scott is only slightly better than Powell
Freepers salivate over any black says anything they like
It’s Beck like second coming
This forum has always been stupid on race....a wee better now.
Powell seemed to welcome the abuse he received from the Left. He was a good Progressive.
So?
The man was a traitor to the GOP.
First, he falsely accused the GOP of being racist.
Second, he endorsed the Marxist Obama.
I have no sympathy or respect for this loser.
Wasn’t it Bill Clinton who said that Obama should be serving him his coffee?
“Wasn’t it Bill Clinton who said that Obama should be serving him his coffee?”
Yup!
Oh I remember. But Powell went right back to his masters in the Obamunist cabal.
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