The Standard's headline called him a "singer-activist". Well, he certainly was an activist. He labored for racial equality, noble in and of itself. However, he was a communist sympathizer, honoring the spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and being buddy-buddy with Cuban thug-dictator Fidel Castro. He had the gall to compare Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as "house slaves", drawing well-deserved rebukes from the both of them. In 2013 he was a grand marshal of New York City's pride parade and an honorary cochairman of the Women's March on Washington (i.e., a pro-abortion extravaganza) in 2017.
Probably the most damning "endorsement" is to be found in that Standard article. Father Michael Pfleger of Chicago, yes him, called Belafonte "a hero and a friend who helped shape him". Shaped him? Shaped him into a possible murderous rabble-rouser who called for a gun shop owner to be snuffed? I'm sad to say that I believe Pfleger's assessment. Why in heaven's name would the Standard's editors think that Pfleger's praise of Belafonte should be a ringing endorsement of his character - unless of course many of the Standard's staff think the same way as does Pfleger?
Just remember - the Catholic Standard is the official news outlet for the Archdiocese of Washington!
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