Yo @TacTKrl right, Eartha Kitt supported fascist white minority rule in rhodesia, visited & performed there despite a boycott by Black liberation movements & denied that there was even a racial issue claiming, ‘if a black man has money he can go anywhere he wants...”
“South Africa’s Thami Mhlambiso said visitors like Eartha Kitt & Percy Sledge are only ‘adding insult to injury’ in suggesting their tours helped the oppressed Africans.” - The Afro-American (1972)
While positive Black figures from the US like Malcolm X served as a source of inspiration to the Black masses of Southern Africa, coons like Eartha Kitt were extremely popular among white settlers w/ “sickening racial attitudes...They simply could not get enough of her”
“The black sex kitten from the Carolina Cotton fields...sat on the knee of a white South African & purred her famous number ‘C’est Si Bon’ in his ear”
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