Harry Belafonte on racism, patriotism & war, 1967: CBC Archives | CBC

In this clip from 1967, American singer and social activist Harry Belafonte talks about racism, patriotism and war. Belafonte was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s confidants, and a big supporter of the anti-apartheid movement. He has won three Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. He is perhaps best known for singing 'The Banana Boat Song', with its signature lyric "Day-O". For more classic clips, go to www.cbc.ca/arch...
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[@JuniorJr...]

Rest in peace, Mr. Belafonte. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@karayoung9383]

So eloquent and so real, thank you my brother for reminding us of our responsibility to each other and of our human dignity at a time when it was dangerous to do so.Three generations of my family love you and your music. Thank you and Godspeed

[@stevendurham9996]

What a beautiful Man. He's done it for a long time.

[@ahmad.tillery.1987]

What a brilliant soft spoken man

[@Ghostmanriding]

"in my old age, if I live to see it"... Harry Belafonte is 94 years old.

[@VILJL]

Harry Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927. He is an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Jamaican-American pop star. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling album by a single artist. He is celebrating his 96th birthday today, March 1st, 2023

[@MariaRodriguez-bc6kd]

His voice is like SMR 💯 great spoken man

[@chrispysaid]

You clearly don't know what ASMR is.

[@paulgleitman7754]

Always worth listening to.Going to be ninety one years old on March 1/18.

[@omar42315]

93 and still going strong. God bless him.

[@Teho231]

Belafonte is one of the last living truly great ones still with us.

[@Contractorhouseguy]

3-6-9 to bicentennial

[@newtjorden1957]

He sadly died this morning

[@very1owkey194]

Um I only knew one song but I never knew he was a civil right activist this is really cool people need to keep fighting for our rights thank you to this man

[@unbroken1010]

He called out obummer and the DNC in 2008

[@patocamarada]

He said it then and again recently at 90+- Man of his word!

[@TonyArechiga]

Rest in Power! A real legend!

[@djjllbc]

I never knew Mr. Belafonte was a singer! My ignorance was enlightened! His words shook me!

[@cdnlady7]

Wow, still relevant today ...

[@deborahgriffin3785]

worth watching Harry Belefonte seat view of the world. very interesting

[@davelund5151]

Very worth watching. Listen carefully because the closed captioning was botched in several places.

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

RIP Harry, you were the best of us.

[@cristianocarrilloso3343]

Rest in Peace King😔🙏

[@nodozhit]

Real talk. Well said. Well put. Well struck!

[@janjohannessmith7033]

mr. Belafonte,, the legend,, has passed now, Long live one of the greatest hearts ever sent to Earth ❤️ Harry belafonte

[@francokambela7780]

Salute to a fearless, selfless, unapologetic freedom fighter

[@tiggywinkle20]

Sadly, Harry Belafonte has gone, just the other day. God bless him. Rest in Peace.🙏🙏🙏

[@uglypeopleshollywood]

World lost a real one. Rest in power sir!

[@a.powellii3382]

Rest in Peace Harry Belafonte 🙏🏾✝️

[@MrFalconford]

Thank you for sharing your journey Harry, you have been a inspiration to me and I'll always remember you this way, congratulations on this Dr. Martin Luther King Day 2021 and counting.

[@holyspacemonkey]

RIP Harry Belafonte. So eloquent.

[@aar1843]

Mr Belafonte was a Great Singer Actor Thinker & Civil Rights Hero...Spend Lots of Time in Collaboration with MLK in the 1960's...we will Miss Him RIP 💯😔🙏

[@Johnnydoodle36]

Rest in peace💜

[@morganoconnor8425]

❤ ríp. May I be able to take what you’ve taught us and spread this message in any way shape or form. I love you.

[@sv6958]

Absolutely riveting. This is a man who stood up in himself. So the world stood up for him.

[@lightningfirst689]

I knew basically nothing about him, other than the fact that he was the guy who sang Day-O and I decided, on a whim, to look up "Harry Belafonte interview." Let's just say this won't be the last time I look that up.

[@kaysimperfectgarden.4043]

Such a decent, honourable man: beautiful face, beautiful voice, beautiful mind. Now go and listen to him sing "My Island in the Sun".

[@Sj27m]

A soft spoken and wise man.👍 RIP.

[@hercules1309]

2020 and yet things haven’t changed

[@SurfDUI]

Damn. RIP to this man. Sad day🙏🏽

[@lashaydavis8593]

Harry Belafonte is a wonderful man.😁

[@kalmia01]

Never forgotten, may we all learn from your example, and from all those who fought and stiĺl fight with dignity, immense courage and intelligence, to reach the rights and freedom they were born with, and deprived by mean system and people, with no dignity and sense of what truly makes a human

[@michaellawrencemaag7480]

Right On

[@VikyMonty61]

Beautifull man!

[@april5666]

What remarkable, thoughtful human being. He did so much for human relations, particularly in a time when it was life threatening. Sadly this is still the case. It perplexes me that the majority of people don’t realize that everyone is the same worthy of love and respect and they want to belong, love their families and friends. I particularly appreciate Mr Belafonte’s thoughts about the distortion that the war machine and global corporate interests see people as fodder for their machinations.

[@Bushwick2678]

Speak 🙌🏾😍❤️

[@phuktard]

Sleep well Comrade you used your time well. 😢

[@TheElem2011]

The lion hearted rebel

[@eddasimon1427]

Great man 🌹❤️🍀

[@quietcowboy77]

Rest in peace Harry thank you for everything you did for the society 🙂

[@fatherjericho2364]

This is one intelligent man

[@msshannon8379]

He is a fraud

[@jamesmacglashan9850]

RIP

[@kiaraditmasa]

Eartha Kitt shared in her book "Confessions of a Sex Kitten" regarding her encounter with Harry: "During the time I was at the Village Vanguard I met Harry Belafonte. I thought he was very handsome and someone I would have liked to get to know better, but at the time our relationship remained quite formal. He seemed to busy catching little white flies, as he proved to me later in Philadelphia where, getting up from my bed, he said, 'I don't want you to take this seriously. No black woman can do anything for me.' There went my heart right into my feet." Eartha Kitt

[@gringochucha]

Damn. Still, sex and romance are two areas of human existence where reason plays no part.

[@dinkster1729]

Aren't men great? Wow! Oh, well, it's a warning, I guess. I've behaved just as atrociously, I think. I regret it.

[@delsmith8140]

R.I.P., nearly the last of his generation.

[@juanp.m.7524]

Belafonte was the real deal...

[@chrispysaid]

Harry Belafonte: "come Mr tally man tally me banana daylight come and me wan go home" Also Harry Belafonte:

[@elishaoluwafemi1982]

That was a great man, a man that lived for purpose and left indelible marks in the sand of time, for justice, for the cause of Christ.

[@mileskendall1889]

Really smart man Day o

[@kalmia01]

❤

[@ninapowell2012]

😢

[@msshannon8379]

He did not like black women.

[@williamschaeffer409]

me say day

[@b_free]

day aye aye o

[@runningsuperska]

I thought he had a caribbean voice!

[@msshannon8379]

He is racist against black women. He's a self hater. He told Eartha Kitt, his lover at the time, there was nothing a black woman could do for him. How dare he cry because he's discriminated against

[@gringochucha]

Sex and romance are complicated. I'm only really romantically attracted to women who are white and blonde (like myself), and yet I love people of all "races" and colors in life in general. Does that make me a terrible racist? Maybe. It is what it is.

[@sassyluv1242]

He is a sexy b man

[@llbean6931]

Very resentful of the white man for this reason: He is capable.

[@summertummer2394]

He claims that he was born in Harlem then why does he have an English accent?

[@jacobholley6181]

He said he grew up in Harlem and live under the British colonialism of the West Indies so that’s why he has a English accent

[@summertummer2394]

@@jacobholley6181 nice try

[@cloudnegativenine]

@@summertummer2394 no you just dumb .. listen to what he’s saying .. if you understand geography and culture you’d have more of a better look at it

[@cloudnegativenine]

@@summertummer2394 yeah sure

[@summertummer2394]

@@cloudnegativenine Where do you live?