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The Black Commentator - Harry Belafonte on Colin Powell - Issue 14

"KING: In retrospect, were your remarks a bit harsh by going into a comparison to slavery? To making him appear like, well, put it frankly, Uncle Tom?

BELAFONTE: Well, I think those who have the capacity and the courage to make a difference by doing bold things, who refuse to apply that condition, are more often suspect of selling out than they are of standing brave and courageous as others have done.

You know, I didn't refer to him as an Uncle Tom. I said, those who sit in the service of the house and those who sit in the service of those who languish on the plantation. America has many plantations, even today. Not only in America, those plantations sit in many places around the world, where I've seen people suffer. "