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Black-history month ripped as ridiculous (Morgan Freeman blasts label as divisive to all Americans)
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| 12/18/05
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Posted on 12/18/2005 11:53:14 AM PST by wagglebee
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The actor also criticizes Black History Month, saying setting aside a special month actually segregates black history from American history. Calling the idea "ridiculous," Freeman notes there's no "white history month."
"You're going to relegate my history to a month?" Freeman asks Wallace. "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history," he says.
He makes perfect sense.
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posted on
12/18/2005 11:53:15 AM PST
by
wagglebee
To: mhking
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posted on
12/18/2005 11:53:45 AM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: Trueblackman
This may be of interest, Kevin!
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posted on
12/18/2005 11:55:01 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(Non-Y2K-Compliant)
To: wagglebee
Morgan Freeman has a solution to the problem of racism "Stop talking about it!" That can't happen, what will Jesse Jackson and Calypso Louis Farrakhan do for a living?
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posted on
12/18/2005 11:56:27 AM PST
by
infidel29
("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
To: wagglebee
"You're going to relegate my history to a month?" Freeman asks Wallace. "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history," he says. ALL RIGHT! Thank you Mr Freeman for the best Christmas Present I will ever get!(Short of John McCain retiring from the US Senate) NOW THAT is speaking truth to power!!!!
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posted on
12/18/2005 11:56:56 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
("My job as the President is to see the world the way it is, not the way we hope it is." -GW Bush)
To: wagglebee
With all due respect on this count, I think it took brass huevos to say this and the man is precisely right.
I salute him for saying it.
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posted on
12/18/2005 11:57:22 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(MSM: Public support for war waining. 403/3 House vote against pullout vaporizes another lie.)
To: wagglebee
He's one of my favorite actors. He's making a lot of sense here but he's going to upset his rice bowl if he's not careful.
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posted on
12/18/2005 11:58:17 AM PST
by
saganite
(The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
To: infidel29
Je$$e is a consumate scammer ........I'm sure he would get by ........ Calypso Louie could sell bow ties
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posted on
12/18/2005 12:01:18 PM PST
by
shooter223
(the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
To: wagglebee
Well, this just proves Morgan Freeman is really not black. /sarc>
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posted on
12/18/2005 12:03:10 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: wagglebee
Common sense emanating from Hollywood ~ how can that be??
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posted on
12/18/2005 12:03:30 PM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: wagglebee
He usually does. In a period when middle class blacks affect ghetto speak, he took diction lessons and came up with a voice one which, like Richard Burton's is melodious and useful for a range of parts while remaining uniquely his.
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posted on
12/18/2005 12:04:20 PM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: wagglebee
You tell 'em, Mr. Freeman!
(He's a great actor - loved him in Shawshank Redemption and others - but of all his work, "E-Z Reader" on the Electric Company will forever be a favorite role for those of us old enough to remember... "Out-a-sighteous!")
To: Tired of Taxes
"Shawshank Redemption" is one of my all time favorite movies, my only wish is that that a$$hole Tim Robbins wasn't in it.
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posted on
12/18/2005 12:09:54 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: JennysCool
Yes it is very interesting to me and I agree with Freeman 100% , I am thinking about changing my Freeper Handle to something else but most of you know me as TBM, so I plan to leave it that way. I remember when I use to own my business in Maryland and would receive calls from possible clients, most where shocked when I came around the corner or stepped off the L, I guess to be Black and well spoken is something rare in America to some and usually it was some liberal a**hole, who has a f*cked up idea of what a Blackman is suppose to think, dress and speak like, Freemen will be condemn by the so-called civil rights crowd for speaking on this.
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posted on
12/18/2005 12:11:13 PM PST
by
Trueblackman
(Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
To: Trueblackman
I guess to be Black and well spoken is something rare in America
From the few times that I have watched television this year, I guess one could get that impression. Thankfully, a walk about my neighborhood dispels any such notion fairly quickly.
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12/18/2005 12:16:11 PM PST
by
P-40
(http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: wagglebee
I can't stand Robbins either, but I always thought he was a good actor before he started talking about politics. :-)
Shawshank was taken from a Stephen King story in his book "Different Seasons", and that one story was a great read, too.
To: Trueblackman
Freemen will be condemn by the so-called civil rights crowd for speaking on this. I fear you're right, but the tide seems to be turning. Hey! Congrats on a great year and Merry Christmas to you and the new bride!
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posted on
12/18/2005 12:19:20 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(Non-Y2K-Compliant)
To: wagglebee
He makes sense, yet at the same time, I don't think it's such a bad idea to have some reference to ethnic contributions to history. A very good and entertaining book is How the Irish Saved Civilization, about how the Irish were instrumental in saving many important texts in medieval times which now help us understand our heritage (RIP). But a book or two is sufficient, not a whole month, year after year.
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posted on
12/18/2005 12:19:50 PM PST
by
Chaguito
To: Tired of Taxes
All of the stories in "Different Seasons" are excellent, it's the only book by Stephen King that I've ever read.
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posted on
12/18/2005 12:20:44 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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