Harry Belafonte Endorses Bernie Sanders

[LovingA2andMI]

Harry Belafonte is a HUGE (using the Bernie way of saying it) Figure In The Civil Rights Movement. Anyone That Has Studied Anything About This Movement Knows This.

Belafonte was extremely close to both Dr. King and His Wife Ms. Scott-King. He Marched With Them, He Strategized With Them, He Cried With Them, He Laughed With Them.

To Have Mr. Belafonte's Endorsement Today of Bernie Sanders - Proves He (Bernie Sanders) - Not Other Candidates - Are Standing In Line with the Legacy of MLK and frankly is "ThisClose" to MLK or Ms. Scott-King (Rest In Power) Endorsing Mr. Sanders Themselves.

Thank You Harry B. Harry B. #GotBerniesBack

"Harry Belafonte has endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, NBC News has learned.

The singer and songwriter who was active in the Civil Rights Movement and close with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. released a video Thursday detailing his endorsement that was given exclusively to NBC News.

"I would suggest to those of you who have not yet made up your minds, or maybe even some of you who have made up your minds, to maybe consider and reconsider what it is that Bernie Sanders offers,"

Belafonte said in a video endorsing Sanders. "He offers us a chance to declare unequivocally that there is a group of citizens who have a deep caring for where are nation goes and what it does in the process of going."

http://linkis.com/www.nbcnews.com/poli/wKj6q

[thereismore]

1. Thank you Harry Belafonte!

We are in good company for sure.

[retrowire]

2. I Proudly Stand With Harry Belafonte's Endorsement Of Bernie Sanders nt

[mak3cats]

4. ...

[Hiraeth]

10. bahahahaha, reminds me of someone ...

[artislife]

3. Daylight come and I want to go home...nt

[kath]

7. Ha - that song was on a tape that we listened to about a zillion times when my kids were little.

i'm thinking maybe it was a Raffi tape, but I knew that HarryB was the most famous for singing that song.

[potone]

5. That should be "our" nation.

That said, this is good news for Bernie supporters. And damn, I'd forgotten just how handsome Mr. Belafonte was when he was young. Sigh...

[monmouth4]

13. Even today, for a man of a certain age, he is still quite handsome...n/t

[potone]

15. Indeed he is.

As well as being elegant, classy and having a lovely voice. He is the sort of person who makes me feel less despondent about America.

[monmouth4]

16. I am with you on that. Elegant is the perfect descriptor...n/t

[BuelahWitch]

21. My mother went to see him perform in Pittsburgh in the '50s

She used to tell me how he got her glasses steamed up.

[monmouth4]

22. Hahahaha, I love it!

[Hiraeth]

6. NOT BLACK ENOUGH

[LovingA2andMI]

8. What?

Exactly do you mean?

[Hiraeth]

9. sarcasm. but, watch and see. that is how it will be spun here on DU. betcha

[LovingA2andMI]

11. Oh Okay....

Got It Now.

[Hiraeth]

12. just beating 'em to the punch is all.

but, they are quick -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511200848

[LovingA2andMI]

14. Got It...

It Must Hurt Them To Know #NoFirewallExist with Bernie Sanders and the African-American Vote.

[Hiraeth]

17. only on DU does it bother a select few. some kind of game they are playing on here ...

today is when it crossed over from dumb to boring.
Ignore is where they are all going even the ones who have switched from HRC to Bernie.

Latecomers usually don't bother me but, on here ... I really don't need to hear their rah-rah.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

18. You better put a sarcasm tag there.

The alerters are relentless, and the juries...

[Hiraeth]

19. and they troll this group. sadly funny shit around here.

[SoapBox]

20. Another fine American for The Swarm to toss under the bus.

Yesterday...Rev Al...was told he doesn't represent the community...because he was meeting with Bernie.

Oh but look..."she" is going to be meeting with the Rev...will he suddenly be back on the bus or remain under it? Time will tell!

Thank you Harry for supporting Bernie!