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on Nov 2, 2009

Harry Belafonte - "Banana Boat (Day O)" -
1956

Category:

Music

Tags:

• harry
  belafonte
• banana
  boat
• day
  o
• calypso
• caribbean
• music

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Standard YouTube License

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• Artist: Harry Belafonte

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  Top Comments

  actually its about black slave banana pickers being forced
  to continue working throughout the night until the colonial 'tallyman'
  or overseer has approved their work to be sufficient by 'tallying
  [their] bananas'.

I heard an interview with Harry Belafonte on the radio the other day, it
is horrible to think that slavery was so recent and the horror of it.
It really is a dark side of our history. He told a story of when he went
in to the incorrect toilet (a 'whites' only) and an American guy said
to him if you let go of one drop you are a 'dead nigger' it's horrible
to think that was so recent, however it is also good to look at how far
things have improved.