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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 02:00 PM
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53. Colin Powell... Belafonte's reference to Colin Powell as a House Nigger
Harry Belafonte's reference to Colin Powell as a House Nigger is not new to Blacks

By Sinclere Lee


WASHINGTON (BNW) -- To be a Black in the Republican Party, you have to be a house nigger, and Harry Belafonte remarks calling Colin Powell one is something that may sound shocking to most white, but it’s very familiar to Black American. All Blacks who called themselves Republicans must sellout their culture and race to tow the party line.

However, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that comments made by singer Harry Belafonte comparing him to a slave out to please his master were "unfortunate."

In a scathing radio interview Tuesday in San Diego, Belafonte blasted Powell in racially charged comments that compared the secretary of state to a plantation slave who moves into the slave owner's house and says only things that will please his master. Belafonte is a longtime political activist.

Both the singer and the secretary of state are Black men of Jamaican descent.

"There's an old saying," Belafonte said. "In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. 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.

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http://www.blacknewsweekly.com/195.html

Mods, please humor me. I'm Black. And that neo-con Powell is the type of person we've long called house niggers. Nobody should be wringing their hands about this. He is what he is and it's accepted language within our community.
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