There are a lot of bizzare/outrageous statments from Harry Belafonte in this Drudge Report — not the least of which is Belafonte’s racist (and somewhat historically inaccurate) attack on Colin Powell. But scrolling all the way to the bottom of the story shows where Belafonte’s mind is at,
There were tens of thousands of peoples and leaders from all over the world gathered to discuss the issue of race. It was an honorable arena… But by not showing up, by sticking it to the government of Nelson Mandela… It was a dark page on our foreign policy.
Somebody should tell Belafonte that South Africa held elections in 1999 and Mandela stepped down from office in June of that year.
I guess Belafonte doesn’t get out much these days.