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We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.
Harry Belafonte
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Harry Belafonte
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: March 1
Actor
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Harlem
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King of Calypso
Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.
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