Harry Belafonte: Hollywood “Will Never Yield To The Needs Of People Of Color”

Singer and activist Harry Belafonte says Hollywood will never meet the needs of people of color.

“It seems to me that long ago we could have put together black studios, put together a black distribution center,” Belafonte said. “Maybe we couldn’t reach 100 million, but we could reach 100,000, and have 100,000 exposed to a great truth. I’d rather have that than 100 million exposed to something vacuous and inaccurate.”

Belafonte said that “in pursuit of ego, in pursuit of large, ridiculous sums of money, we have sold our birthright that somehow we are more victim than we are responsible.”

 Belafonte emphasized the importance of “radical thought.”

“You’re not going to find solutions until you’re willing to embrace radical thought,” he said. “Every time black people moved ahead in the history of this country is because somewhere in this nation, a group of people dared to think radically and do radical things.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.