Senate Minority Leader, Trent Lott, R-MS has declined to attend an October 24, award dinner honoring Harry Belafonte. Belafonte, who basically called Colin Powell an 'Uncle Tom' by comparing him to a 'house slave', will be receiving the Africare Bishop John T. Walker Humanitarian Service Award. Crosswalk reports that Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a conservative African American civil rights group, told CNSNews.com, "I think the senator has done a wise thing and I hope that his staff now forces Africare to remove his name as National Honorary Patron."

Illegitimate Senate Plurality Leader, Tom Daschle, D-SD, has not yet made any comment. I guess he's waiting for the poll results to come in before he decides what to do.