Harry Belafonte Criticized for Calling GOP Presidential Hopeful Herman Cain a "False Negro," While Years Ago Praised Fidel Castro

Harry Belafonte is under fire in conservative circles for his lambasting of black GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain. He called Cain a "bad apple," "a false Negro," someone "denied intelligence" and "denied a view of history," among other choice words. Most recently he appeared on HLN's "The Joy Behar Show" and kept up the assault on Cain. What has unnerved the right is the hypocrisy he may have shown years ago when he praised Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Humberto Fontova at Town Hall wrote a lengthy column about why Belafonte, who played a prominent role in the fight for racial equality and justice during the civil rights era, is a hypocrite for praising Fidel Castro. But, does that mean Belafonte can't speak up about what he dislikes about Herman Cain? His views are widely shared by most people in the black community.

“If you believe in justice,” vocalized Mr Belafonte in an interview with Cuba’s propaganda ministry years earlier, “if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind—then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!”

If only Herman Cain were a lily-white Stalinist whose regime murdered more people in its first three years in power than Hitler's murdered in its first six, jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin's--including the longest suffering black political prisoners in modern history. If only Herman Cain proposed policies to plunge a nation more prosperous than half of Europe’s into one that repels Haitians. If only he’d driven into exile—even with machine-gunners and Tiger Sharks as dutiful border guards-- 20 per cent of the population from a nation formerly flooded with immigrants. Source

I guess my question to Mr. Fontova is where is the proof that Harry Belafonte colluded with Castro's KGB propaganda ministry for a documentary? Yes, I said it, a documentary. If this is the best the right wing can do to refute criticisms by Belafonte, then they must be in more dire straits than they would have us believe.