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10-11-2002, 03:10 AM
Trent Lott Retreats From Belafonte Awards Dinner (http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1166203.html)
<font size=1>Marc Morano
Senior Staff Writer</font>
(CNSNews.com) - Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) announced Thursday he would not be attending an Oct. 24 award dinner honoring entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte, following the singer's comparison of Secretary of State Colin Powell to a house "slave."
"Sen. Lott will not be attending the dinner," Ron Bonjean, a spokesman for Lott, told CNSNews.com. Belafonte is scheduled to receive the Africare Bishop John T. Walker Humanitarian Service Award at the dinner. Africare is a non-profit relief group.
Lott's decision not to attend pleased those who were calling for him to pull out of the dinner. Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a conservative African American civil rights group, told CNSNews.com, "I think the senator has done a wise thing and I hope that his staff now forces Africare to remove his name as National Honorary Patron."
Lott is listed as a National Honorary Patron for the dinner along with Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.)
Bonjean did not elaborate on whether Lott would remove his name as a patron. "[The decision not to attend] speaks for itself," Bonjean said.
Princeton Lyman, a member of the board of directors for Africare, said he was unfamiliar with Belafonte's remarks about Powell. When informed of Belafonte's comments, Lyman told CNSNews.com, "Oh golly, I had been away and I guess I missed it. Oh my goodness."
"I am really out of touch. Do you know where I could find the text?" he asked.
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<font size=1>Marc Morano
Senior Staff Writer</font>
(CNSNews.com) - Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) announced Thursday he would not be attending an Oct. 24 award dinner honoring entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte, following the singer's comparison of Secretary of State Colin Powell to a house "slave."
"Sen. Lott will not be attending the dinner," Ron Bonjean, a spokesman for Lott, told CNSNews.com. Belafonte is scheduled to receive the Africare Bishop John T. Walker Humanitarian Service Award at the dinner. Africare is a non-profit relief group.
Lott's decision not to attend pleased those who were calling for him to pull out of the dinner. Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a conservative African American civil rights group, told CNSNews.com, "I think the senator has done a wise thing and I hope that his staff now forces Africare to remove his name as National Honorary Patron."
Lott is listed as a National Honorary Patron for the dinner along with Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.)
Bonjean did not elaborate on whether Lott would remove his name as a patron. "[The decision not to attend] speaks for itself," Bonjean said.
Princeton Lyman, a member of the board of directors for Africare, said he was unfamiliar with Belafonte's remarks about Powell. When informed of Belafonte's comments, Lyman told CNSNews.com, "Oh golly, I had been away and I guess I missed it. Oh my goodness."
"I am really out of touch. Do you know where I could find the text?" he asked.
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