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...”

She was an ‘honorary white’ amidst millions of Black ppl suffering under white fascism

“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”

https://twitter.com/blackgobineau/status/1223159749618950146?s=21 https://twitter.com/sweetbabybabes/status/1223159749618950146