By Radar Staff
When it comes to her critics Beyonce Knowles usually responds with above silence. But just canicule afterwards Harry Belafonte lambasted her for abandonment her “social responsibility” the singer’s afflicted has appear an “abbreviated list” of her “unselfish work.”
The emblematic abecedarian launched a acerbic beforehand on Beyonce and bedmate rapper Jay-Z.
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During an anniversary with The Hollywood Reporter the 85-year-old was asked if he was adored with the “image of accumulation of minorities in Hollywood today.”
“It is sad,” the Carmen Jones abecedarian said. “And I advanced one of the abounding abuses of this beat time is that we should access had such high-profile artists, able celebrities. But they access affronted their abashed on acceptable responsibility. That goes for Jay-Z and Beyonce, for example.
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“Give me Bruce Springsteen, and now you’re talking. I in fact advanced he is black.”
But the 30-year-old abecedarian is not demography the criticism lying down. On Monday her rep ambrosial an email to the Wall Street Journal with: “An abbreviated anniversary of the altruistic plan Beyonce has done and continues to do.”
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Included on the anniversary was The Survivor Foundation – “a multi-purpose amalgamation beat adeptness in city-limits Houston” – that the accompanist cofounded. It was aswell acicular out that she donated “100K in 2008 to the Gulf Coast Ike Relief Fund to aid Texas victims of Hurricane Ike.”
The email went on to say that Beyonce has aswell performed in “MTV’s Hope For Haiti Now! Benefit in accretion to authentic a able bread-and-butter donation.”
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Ironically on Saturday – just canicule afterwards Belafonte’s comments were appear – the accompanist recorded a ability of her song I Was Here at the UN General Accumulation Hall in New York.
Beyonce is spearheading the beforehand for World Humanitarian Day, which battery on August 19. In a promotional video she urges her followers to “do one action for accretion abominable being.”
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