"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.
Morgan Freeman ping.
An American (who happens to be of African ancestry) has strayed off the reservation. Corrective steps will have to be taken by DNC, NAACP, and the reverends Jackson, Sharpton, and Farrakhan.. If subject does not realize the error of his ways he may be subjected to banishment from liberal society per The Clearance Thomas Protocol.
[My respect for Mr. Freeman, on the other hand, has increased 1000%.]
Morgan is now in the same class as Cosby,,,,good for him! I wonder how this will effect his acting career.
"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."
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Well there goes any future invites from the race pimps. Guess Morgan and Denzel will have to watch the super bowl game at Bill Cosbys house since they will now be labeled house slaves. Seriously, Jesse and Sharpton don't need white racists, those reverse bigots do a perfect job of keeping the black population down and oppressed as if they were back in the worst poverty stricken parts of Africa.
Way too much common sense. I've a lot of respect for Freeman.
I agree with much of what Mr. Freeman says, and I agree also with pretty much all of the posts I've seen so far on this subject. But please note that Mr. Freeman is not saying that there should be no study of what black people did in the past--he's saying that the history of black people in America should not be limited to just one month of talking about Sojourner Truth and Martin Luther King Jr. It's part of the fabric of American history. Black history can't just be Victimhood Studies, in a curriculum designed to make black people feel helpless and angry.
As a white woman, I really enjoy reading about black history. I do volunteer work for a foundation that studies black history, and it's interesting. The next thing I want to read about is slavery in New York in the seventeenth century.
Well said Mr. Freeman!
First sensible thing this A-hole has uttered in years.
There are a few actors like Freeman I particularly wish were conservative, because some of their roles have been so brilliant--I loved him in "Officer and a Gentleman"--and didn't really like the movie itself! And he played in a Stephen King movie (shawshank redemption) and didn't allow himself to be turned into the "magic negro" that is the stock King character. (I can never understand why King never gets slapped for his racist depictions.)
IMO, one of the finest actors living.
What he has stated is right. By emphasizing color you call attention to color above the nature of the person. Priorties are 180 degrees turned around from where they should be.
It heightens tensions among those whom race actually matters, and it actually serves the purpose of separately races from each other. If we're going to be separate let it be based on Character...beliefs...ideals....race should play no more of a role than eye color.
Well, there is only history, to be sure, but cultures that do not innovate do not contribute significantly to history. This is not necessarily racial, as some Semitic and Asian cultures seem to belong outside the stream of invention. At one time Islam was revolutionary, for example, and then at some point turned its back on the flow of time. The West cavorted in the idea that nature could be harnessed to its wishes, and suffered many upheavals in consequence of the desire to recast itself in religious, biological, psychic and digital terms. One may say that we were pursuing a fools dream, but we did make history.
Outstanding common sense
Outstanding Actor as well
Always knew Freeman had more sense about him than 90% of his Hollywierd counterparts.
Indeed. One other celeb who's handled it properly is Tiger Woods. Calling him black or african American would insult his mother ... and maybe annoy his blond wife.
While we're on the topic, the term "African-American" has always bothered me. With everything blacks have given to this country, why do they only rate a "hyphen?" Aren't they as American as anybody else?
Freeman's expressed exactly how I feel about it. I remember years ago asking my daughter's school when they were going to have "White Male European History Month". Strangely enough, they didn't take that as a constructive suggestion, or maybe there weren't enough months left in the school year after "Women's History Month," "Gay History Month," "Muslim History Month," and "Rain Forest Appreciation Month."