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  • The Trouble with Harry [Bellafonte]

    10/21/2002 12:50:10 PM PDT · by spald · 32 replies · 1,096+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 21, 2002 | WSJ OpEd page
    The Trouble With HarryIt's one thing for an aging celebrity leftist like Harry Belafonte to go on national television (twice) and call President Bush a slave master and two black senior members of his Administration -- Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell -- "house slaves." But it's another thing entirely to have a respected charity organization countenance this buffoonery.We learned recently that Africare, an African-aid group based in Washington, D.C., disinvited Ms. Rice to its annual fund-raising dinner, which will pay tribute to Mr. Belafonte's humanitarian efforts. She had agreed to give the keynote address, but Mr. Belafonte, who has compared...