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Harry Belafonte likens Colin Powell to a plantation slave
(Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, October 12, 2002)
"There's an old saying - in the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation [and] those slaves that lived in the house," Belafonte, an outspoken advocate for civil rights causes, said in a radio interview. . . . "You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. . . . "Colin Powell's permitted to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture," said Belafonte, who had his biggest hit with the song Day-O.

posted by Lorenzo 7:56 AM