Comments on: Harry Belafonte Thank You!!

By: rastaman

rastaman — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:26:47 +0000

Obama is a Celebrity who shoots the breeze with Pimp with a Limp, kicks it with Jay Z while unemployment in black and hispanic communities have increased. There is nothing to admire about this social predator.

By: Irv AboveDeRest

Irv AboveDeRest — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:21:33 +0000

I concur with this Article and most of the expressed views/comments. I am a “Brother” and I am very disappointed with with how we have conducted ourselves following the sacrifices of the ‘Civil Rights Movement’ of the 60s and 70s. We have become passive because a few of us have become wealthy through sports and entertainment. We have been neutered by the razor of anti-cooperative Rap music that only points to self gratification. Dito that with a world that is more obsessed with raw data/numbers than people value.

I am not a star yet but I am guilty! As usual, I find that we-as a Black Community-all know how to express what is wrong but have not got a clue how to initiate a change or correction. We do not have competitive media coverage at the news paper or TV level. [I suppose, most of use don’t like reading.] LOL. So, we do not have an opportunity to counter the negatives that is run against us in the mainstream media. So, we act-out as the welcoming institutionalization awaits with open arms!

We need to hold weekly workshops in schools, community centres and churches to discuss strategies to change. YES WE CAN!! YES WE MUST!!
God Bless us all.

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:44:48 +0000

I’m white and Native American, but being that I’m Indian I always look to the righteous black community like Harry Belafonte or Rasta Reggae to speak the truth forthose of us who are down trodden, and looking at all of the media and entertainment these days not just black is disgusting, where is God? Everything in this USA is against the true ways and virtues of loving god. I hate rap music, not only because I just don’t like the way it sounds, but for what it spreads to the youth, the values they recieve from this valueless artform. Harry Belafonte, Barack Obama, and ZIggy Marley seem to be the surviving few to stand up for rights these days!

By: Esther Curtis

Esther Curtis — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:34:44 +0000

I’m not an African-American but I grew up in an integrated neighborhood and I saw what celebrity greed did to the young kids in our neighborhood – black, white and latino alike. I think it’s sad that celebrities can become so detached from their own roots. They forget that young people admire and imitate them, and young people fail because they don’t model the behavior that actually matters. I wish we had more Harrys.

By: Terrance Amen

Terrance Amen — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:51:58 +0000

Elder Belafonte is truly a dying breed, but so is our community. We live in the age of me, me, me and the Black community has suffered for it. In every walk of life, not just the entertainment industry, but every industry, we as a people are not looking after our own. We now rely on the government to solve our problems when in fact, we are the problem.
When are we going to wake up from this nightmare that makes us think people outside our community care more about us than we should care about ourselves? There’s something wrong with this picture, but we can’t see it because we’ve been blinded by all the bling, bling, reality shows, negative music and the mis-education of our people.

How do we solve the problems in our community? By stop following people outside our community who are leading us to self destruction and start leading our people in the direction of building the strong Black community we once had. By that I mean doing for self, like we once did when we didn’t have a choice. Becoming owners of businesses instead of endorsers of them, educating our own children instead of sending them to inferior schools where the teachers could care less if they learned anything or not. We should be creators of jobs instead of beggars of them. If we are to be one of the largest consumers, let it be of products and services we produce. Until we break the mental chains of slavery that makes us give everything we have to people outside our community, we will never reach our full potential as a people.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness