Harry Belafonte: Self
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Harry Belafonte : The night that Dr. King was on, we spoke about death. I asked him the question, 'Did he fear for his life?' And he said, 'Not really.' He'd overcome his fear of death and now he was focused on, not, how long he would live; but what would be the quality of the time that he would live. Well, he said, this is no longer about race, it's now about the welfare and the wellbeing of human life. We must talk about economics. We must talk about where people are poor. We must galvanize our nation to begin to take care of the poor. America should not have no poor people. No one should ever go to bed hungry. There should be gainful employment. There should be a living wage. There should be access to health care, huh... with no charge. We should have education for free, like so many other nations successfully have applied. All these things put a huge bullseye on Dr. King; because he was now tampering with the playground of the wealthy. And uh... when he came to that moment about dismantling the economic construct... he had to go.
