Did anybody ask Wallace when white history month is?
wow he said that?
I’ve seen Morgan speak sensibly about race in the past, too.
I just gained a whole lotta respect for Morgan Freemen!!
We need a Viking History Month.
What the Hell kind of response was that! Wallace is an idiot of the first order.
Morgan replied "when we stop talking about it"!
I love the talented Morgan Freeman. Always have.
sw
Jesus H. Christ in a sidecar. This interview is from December 2005. Where haa this guy been?
Funny thing is (In a sad sorty of way) that Obama is going to create racists out of people who have never had a racist bone in their bodies. That tends to happen when you punish people for wrongdoing that they never committed.
Morgan Freeman gets it.
Wallace was totally flustered...completely shattered his premises.
Does not compute. Sounds too much like common sense. We live in an age of ignorance and superstition.
Stupid people hold the floor. We can’t have guys like Morgan Freeman actually talking sense. It’s so unexpected that Wallace can’t wrap his head around it.
It blows his mind...
Thank you for pointing this out. Freeman has always been one of my favorite actors. I guess now I know why. We’re both Americans.
I haven't heard of any crosses being burned by white-sheeted KKK'ers in at least the time Robert Byrd has served in the Senate. But their nightly fare about KKK rallies and documentaries about the genuine suffering of Blacks in the days of segregation seem to be designed to keep racial hatreds at the boiling point.
“I’m Jewish.”
There is peek into the window of the liberals mind in that response. Mike Wallace was actually shocked that Morgan Freeman wasn’t dancing in his chair for black history month. Therefore, he couldn’t say “good point” or anything else when asked “When is white history month?” “I’m Jewish.”
I do see an Islamic History and Appreciation Month in our future before Barack leaves the White House in 2012. It’s coming.
Thank goodness we still have our Congressional White Caucus!-——Oh wait————
AH!!! I Love it!!
I see that the interview is from a few years back, but good news NEVER gets old!
Thank you for the affirmation that at long last, one of my favorite actors, has shown that he is not simply pretending to be a wise man.
Tatt
What truly irritates middle class black Americans is that they are not distinguished by other Americans from poor and lower class blacks.
After years of education and hard work, being lumped together with ignorant, poor, slothful and often criminal lower classes would annoy most anybody.
But this meets head on with the egalitarianism of especially whites, who reward the achievements of education and success by leaving successful people alone. Not just educated and successful blacks, but everyone who is educated and successful. There is no “community” of the middle classes, if anything, there is isolation.
So while uneducated and poor blacks are ignored, because others don’t want to associate with them; middle class blacks are ignored out of unspoken respect. But there is no way to tell the two things apart. They assume they are ignored because they are seen as “the same” as people far below their station. And this bugs the heck out of them.
I’ve said many times that black Americans are American through and through, as much so or more than any other group, going back 300, even 400+ years as some do with roots in Virginia, or close to that with Rhode Island and Massachussetts. Played a role in every flashpoint in our history, most have native blood coursing their veins ... stop with the separatism. It’s clearly not helping at all, has actually hurt.
I have some ancestors who owned slaves, and the majority who didn’t. I also have ancestors who were brought here indentured, and a majority who weren’t. At the rate things are going, I guess I should try to get something out of the ones who were bound. Not that anyone would give a crap.