What a great civil rights campaigner Harry Belafonte has been.
He like many before him such as Paul Robeson, Barbara Stanwyck,John Garfield,made sacrifices to highlight the inequality that has continued in the United States and the likes of Codolesa Rice and Conal Powell have supported the very people that have continued with this enequality. It was Jack Kennedy that expected the black voters to vote for him and it was not until Harry Belafonte advised Jack Kennedy to speak to Martin Luther King did John Kennedy get the African american vote. Today we see mischevious leaders cleverly place minorities into the blame arena highlighting them for the countries ills that these very people have created. The Howard Government has been in office for eleven years and they fanfare that there is now a problem with child abuse. Boasting that the Government has hoarded money to the detriment of Education, Health and Safety now the Howard government finally want to throw money at the problem for a quick fix. The money that should have gone to Government Education and Health has gone to private insurance and sending our troops to war. Exactly the same bad policies have happened in the United States sending over three thousand young men to their deaths and many more mutilated to protect those that have been made richer due to the war on Iraq. The film Sicko highlights how Austalia is going the same way as America. Yet in Britain, Canada, Cuba and France Private Health is a dirty word and shameful. So thank you John Howard for hoarding all of that money to win an election for your dogmatic ideology while many Australians are now suffering because of youe incompetant policies.

African Americans who join the Republican Party become traitors to those that fought to abolish slavery. Conservative Politics is about making sure that it is easy to have wage slaves to employ labour as cheap as is humanly possible.

> African Americans who join the Republican Party become
> traitors to those that fought to abolish slavery.

You mean the Republican Party? The Party formed by anti-slavery activists? The political party of Abraham Lincoln? The one that passed the 13th amendment to the US constitution?

That Republican party?

Do not blacken those names by including Harry's he is a racist .
Have no doubt he in fact hates all whites, and racism is evil in any form.
Bronco dislike me as much as you like but I remain proud that so very long ago I grew out of the very left and its strange view of the world.
Harry sings well but is so very full of hate he wasts the air he breaths.

Who is Conan Powell? Or is it Conal Powell?

I can work out who Codolesa Rice must be, (I think), but Conan, or Conal Powell?

Could Bronco Lane mean Colin (pronounced 'coal-inn') Powell, the former US Secretary of State, and in his preceeding military career a former Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the US Defence Department?

If so, and if he has quoted Harry Belafonte correctly, then both are wrong to suggest Powell has any origins arising from a background of slavery. Just another unthinking sloganist's smearing label. If ever there was a good candidate for the US Presidency, it was Colin Powell.

If Bronco Lane was capable of listening, and doing his own thinking, at the time, he might have detected that had Colin Powell been able to be persuaded to run for that office, and won it, there may have been an whole different approach to the Iraq situation, and US foreign policy generally.

But then again, if one is too ignorant, lazy, or careless as to even the names of the people one is attempting to smear, one has to feel that it is just the sound of words being silently peeled from the page by the eyes of others that is the real turn-on.

In other words, this is just a racist rant. And what it has to do with Pauline Hanson deserving to be in gaol escapes me. Just about everyone knows Pauline Hanson was (improperly) gaoled because of a malicious prosecution brought by the major political parties and the Australian Electoral Commission acting in concert because she (and David Etteridge) had shown them all up over public funding for political parties at elections. See OLO article "Biggest Rort of all slips under the Radar" http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6191 and its thread http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=6191 . It was plain straight dog-in-the-manger stuff. Pauline had taken THEIR funding! Bad, Mean, Rednecked Racist, Pauline!

Maaaate, with friends like Bronco Lane, Harry Belafonte sure don't need no enemies!

to be fair to dubya, he's an equal opportunity employer: if you are willing to kill people who have done you no harm, you can work for him.

america's 'national interest' needs killers, because 'their' oil is inconveniently under other people's land.