There's nothin against balck folk being conservative. It's just that if Bush wanted a black conservatuive to serve as his Secretary of State then he could have found a' plenty takers. Problem is that Powell seemed to have a world view and some insights into the how to and how not to conduct foriegn policy, but he accepted a position that has not showcased *his* skills and knowledge. Quite the opposite.

So Harry Belafonte calls him on it and now you, Kim C, want to just go ahead a discredit a life's worth of humanistic activism by a man who could have done the same as Powell, but hasn't.

Excuse me, I'm not trying to come off as pompous or righteos here, but I'd suggest that anyone that quick to denounce the body of a man's life's acheivements, probably didn't think much of him to begin with...

Bobert