...and after all that violence, Virginians still voted for hate. Your right, there are no words! In a recent interview of Harry Belafonte by PBS newshour Charlayne Hunter-Gault, I was literally stunned and disheartened by comments he made about the current racist climate we are now experiencing which has been exasperated by trump's (gop) hate propaganda and lies; policies against non white, non christian, lgbt, women, immigrants and refugees...and, given the primary election of Corey Stewart, things certainly look very grim for America. (Excerpt below.)
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Harry Belafonte "To realize Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, white America needs to change course."
[And, finally, as we Mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault sat down with one of King's closest friends, artist and activist Harry Belafonte, in his home.]
Charlayne began by asking Belafonte how he first met Dr. King some 65 years ago.
Harry Belafonte:
Charlayne Hunter-Gault:
OK.
So, what do you think it will take today to make his dream of the beloved community a reality?
Harry Belafonte:
Until white America begins or even decides to identify a moral course of history, I don't think anything is going to happen. I think America will self-destruct.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault:
But the civil rights movement was black and white together.
Harry Belafonte:
Yes.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault:
That's not the case anymore?
Harry Belafonte:
That's the case, but it's not the fact.
The case is that we have to fix it. The fact is that it's not fixable if white folks don't decide to change their course of conduct.
The only thing left for black people to do is to burn it down. We have been lynched. We have been murdered.
And, if you look around, never before in my 91 years of history as an American have I ever seen the nation more racially divisive than it is at this very moment, including the days of the Ku Klux Klan and the segregation laws of the South.
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