Presented tonight at the NAACP Image Awards with the Spingarn Award honoring outstanding achievement by an African American, Harry Belafonte urged blacks to get involved in the national conversation on guns.
Oh wow. Harry Belafonte is speaking on gun violence and black incarceration. You know he's not there for fluffy speeches #NAACPImage
— Rebecca Theodore-Vachon (@FilmFatale_NYC) February 2, 2013
Harry Belafonte scolds Black America during NAACP Image Awards about lackadaisical attitudes regarding gun violence.
— Phil Rhodes (@PhilR56) February 2, 2013
Harry Belafonte is speaking to the congregation about why we are silent on this issue of Gun Violence
— Ashley Shuler (@ashleyshuler_) February 2, 2013
"In the gun game, we are the most hunted." Harry Belafonte #ImageAwards
— Charlotte Abolish ICE Abotsi (@CharlotteAbotsi) February 2, 2013
Harry Belafonte challenging black America and leaders to speak to the carnage of gun violence on African-American youth. #ImageAwards #NAACP
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) February 2, 2013
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Let us not be charged with patriotic treason. Now is the time to speak out about gun control. Harry Belafonte #naacpimageawards
— William T. Chaney Jr (@WTChaneyjr) February 2, 2013
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Belafonte: Let us not be charged with patriotic treason. Our kids are waiting for us to change the system …
— Rev Dr Susan K Smith (@cassady2euca) February 2, 2013
We commit #patriotictreason allowing #prison industry sell us the idea that black and brown families deserve #incarceration 4 profit.
— Candelario Vazquez (@metzlisol) February 2, 2013
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The river of blood that flows along the streets of our nation is mostly rich with Black Blood! WOW!!!!! #HarryBelafonte #NAACPImageAwards
— Kevin Bond (@ItsKevinBond) February 2, 2013
The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation, flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.-Harry Belafonte #NAACP
— OWNViewers (@OWNViewers) February 2, 2013
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Not everyone was as impressed with Belafonte’s passionate anti-gun speech.
Harry Belafonte is on the NAACP Image Awards spewing propaganda blaming legal gun owners 4 the problems of gangs & illegal guns in cities.
— TJ Chilly Willy (@streetscoop) February 2, 2013
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