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I always forget that he acted also. I saw a trailer a while ago for the Robert Wise 1959 noir film Odds Against Tomorrow where he played a bank robber, and I was like, "Oh yeah, he acts too." Then, last week I saw a DVD of the 1995 film White Man's Burden with him and John Travolta, and again I thought, "Oh yeah, I forgot again!" What a versatile guy.
 
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Good riddance
 
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While he had a very pleasant voice, it was overshadowed by his strident and often times, offensive speech. He was a Leftist, viewed just about everything through a racial lens but, was more than happy to take the money and cozy-up to those he despised.
 
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He was a racist, plain and simple.
 
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Harry Belafonte


Didn't really know much about him. But he sounds like a real shitty work of art. Snipped from his wiki page, the irony of his statement:

On December 9, 2012, in an interview with Al Sharpton on MSNBC, Belafonte expressed dismay that many political leaders in the United States continue to oppose Obama’s policies even after his re-election: "The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third-world dictator and just put all of these guys in jail. You're violating the American desire.

So, basically, the American desire is to be a 3rd world dictatorship? If so, not to speak ill of the dead, but fuck him and good riddance.




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Thanks guys; my memories of him were pretty positive from his film work, but he took a hard left turn in life and then floored it. Konata88's post with the Wiki clip was a jaw dropper. Slight edit to the original post.
 
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A well known leftist commie sympathizer POS. Good riddance to hell.


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He should have just made music and enjoyed the good life but instead he had to be a nasty, racist, hate spewing commie lover. I won’t mourn the loss of that polemic.
 
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Belafonte didn't have a particularly impressive body of work; his big hit was the day-o Banana Boat song. His music was a fad, calypso stuff for a brief moment. His film work was largely blaxploitation stuff. He wasn't Chuck Berry or Sidney Poitier. But he became more well known for being a civil rights commie who felt Fidel Castro was the greatest. Even Obama got tired of him haranguing him about not doing enough for black people.



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Never liked him


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Yeah - same here - no loss and more oxygen for everyone else -
 
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I never cared about his politics or racism.

Starting when I was but a white boy living in Africa, I’ve loved his performance Belafonte At Carnegie Hall. It is about all I know of his corpus.

I may still have that LP.





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I was never a fan but he was part of the Chastain Park summer concert series sometime in the mid to late 90s. Our office bought a few tickets for the series and employees drew for the dates. I wanted Bob Seger or somebody like that but a friend and I ended up with Harry Belafonte. It was a fun concert (he kept fun on the stage that night and politics off of it) but I wouldn’t have paid for it. My wife and I both recalled the evening last night in hearing of his passing. I told her that I hadn’t even known he was still alive up to that point.


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He was a racist, plain and simple.

Besides that I never liked his singing.



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Good riddance



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He was a racist, plain and simple.



I don't normally like to speak ill of someone who has passed even if I despise them but these two comments sum it up perfectly.
 
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When I see someone like Belafonte, I always wonder how they've been making a living for the past fifty years. Maybe he made good investments.
 
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Residuals
Appearance fee's
Write a few books
Get paid for speeches; no shortage of Leftist schools and organizations who will dearly pay to have this 'icon' speak at their event
I'm sure he lost a chunk with bad investments. There's more than a few financial managers and firms who crave having celebrities in their portfolio, more so they can rub elbows and gain more wealthy clients.
Most agents worth their salt are going to steer their clients, towards some level of financial education and literacy so they don't blow the gravy-train for everyone involved.
Belafonte had several marriages, I'm sure there was some financial losses there as he was a known playboy.
 
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He was a total Commie, a friend of both Castro and Chavez. Good riddance.



 
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The dead GDC (thank you to our departed friend JALLEN for the acronym) was a foolish fool indeed. To heap more scorn upon his memory I post a link to the post 9/11 video 'Hey Mr. Taliban'.

George and Colin opening a can of whoop-ass.

https://youtu.be/givcXTn0_Wo


And Toby Keith at Camp Liberty, 2005

https://youtu.be/zCDSdxO9MNo


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