Hero or House Negro?

Colin Powell’s new official biography claims the General was fired by President Bush.

“Colin Powell claims he was fired by the Bush Administration, according to his official biography, which was excerpted in the Washington Post’s Sunday magazine. After his termination, Powell and the Bush Administration had used the cover story that Powell resigned of his own accord from his position as Secretary of State.”

Now that he is out of Office, Colin Powell has gone to great lengths to distance himself from the Bush Administration, but is it too late? Doesn’t the new revelation of how Powell left Office confirm that Harry Belafonte was correct when he called Powell a house negro?

“There’s an old saying,” Belafonte said in that interview. “In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and there were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master … exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.”

TheStateOf . . . Colin Powell. Blacks in symbolic roles will always be sacrificed at some point. It was clear from Day 1 that Powell was not in ideological agreement with Bush, and the same thing is happening to Condi now. Powell served Bush loyally, even going so far as to stain his own name with the infamous speech on WMD at the United Nations. Then, when Powell was no longer necessary, Bush dismissed him. Sounds like Harry B. was right to me.