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Belafonte Wants More From Obama

Legendary singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte speaks tonight at Wayne State University’s Law School. Belafonte says he’s concerned about what the first black president in the history of the U.S. is doing – or not doing – to help African Americans. Belafonte says he bears no ill will towards President Obama and is not trying to attack him. But the singer and humanitarian says he IS disappointed that the Obama Administration has not done more to help erase poverty or press an agenda that could help people of color. Belafonte – who has been involved with various White House officials over decades – says he remembers how Franklin D. Roosevelt mentioned the importance of helping black Americans, and requested that activists make him use the bully pulpit of the presidency to promote civil rights. He said, “And I think what’s missing from Barack Obama is nobody’s coming out an make him do it. From our side of the agenda, from our interests. We were out there, we made John Kennedy do it. We made Lyndon Baines Johnson do it. Made a lot of people take notice. And then somewhere we kind of fell off the cliff.” Belafonte calls it an indictment of those promoting civil rights as much as it is of the Obama Administration.