Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
[on Harlem, 2011] “One of the foremost things that we suffer from, for children, is the lack of models, of tangible role models. A lot of us, as kids, had no such problems. Because then, a lot of the achievers were also required to live in the middle of Harlem, or in the South Side of Chicago. ‘Rich nigs’ couldn't go anywhere. We saw Robeson. We saw Duke Ellington: he lived with us. Now, none of those heroic figures live in Bed-Stuy or the heart of Harlem. Now they live in Martha’s Vineyard, Fire Island. In California, they live in Beverly Hills.
N.S.: How many times have I heard racist, famous blacks make such statements in support of racial segregation, without suffering any scandals? Besides which, Belafonte was lying, as usual. At the time he made that statement, there were plenty of rich blacks and whites alike in Harlem. And why can’t black children have white heroes?
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Why are white children supposed to have black heroes but black children aren't expected to have white heroes?
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