"I don't need Harry Belafonte to tell me what it means to be black."

-Condoleezza Rice

A big hug and a "Yessssss!" for Condi!

Condi for VP next time. Then Condi for Prez.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 2002

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The Trouble With Harry WSJ Opinion Journal, by WSJ Editorial

It'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 the National Security Adviser to a "Jew" who was "doing things that were anti-Semitic and against the best interests of her people," told Africare that he could not abide Ms. Rice's presence. So the organizers rescinded the invitation to Ms. Rice.

[WSJ wants me to give info before I get the rest of the article so if you want to know what it says, you'll have to go and register. THis looks like all we need to know, though.]

-- Anonymous, October 21, 2002

If I recall correctly, Ms. Rice was not aware of the invitation to be keynote speaker to the event. I thought this was mentioned in an earlier article where it was stated that someone else [Powell?] was supposed to do it, and he didn't know about it either.

Or, I could be thinking of some other event.

They should just cancel the event. Bellowfont doesn't deserve it.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 2002