Posted on 07/06/2012 2:39:06 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
He was especially interested in talking about President Obama, and why Freeman thinks he should not be called America's first black president.
"First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him ... they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white American, Kansas, middle of America," Freeman said. "There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president — he's America's first mixed-race president."
Many of Freeman's films explore important chapters of African-American history: Amistad was about the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Driving Miss Daisy was set in the civil rights era; and Glory centered on an all-black regiment in the Civil War.
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Not that it matters much what Morgan Freeman thinks, but according to some sources, the following US Presidents all reportedly had ancestors who had a mixed racial background: Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Warren G. Harding, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson.
I should also add that Mr. Freeman (thanks to 330,000 white Union soldiers who died during the Civil War in the pursuit of his “Freeman” status) almost always plays the “Magic All Knowing Negro”, the current equivalent of the Old Stepin Fetchit routine from the old movies and minstrel shows.
African continent.
Thank you.
morgan freeman... he can FOAD.
LLS
Ever check out Freeman? He’s not too black, he;s even got freckles....must be a whitey in the wood pile!
I think sometimes he wears makeup to look more black.You can see it better in Hidef.
“Black Americans have no concept of what it is to be African and no appreciation of how lucky they are to be Americans.”
So, so, so damned true.
Do you have a link for that .
Mr. Freeman has be mentally stunted by his racism. It would never dawn on him that Barry is rejected because he’s a flaming, anti-American socialist rather than his black father or white mama.
These people are so pitifully infantile, so obsessed with their skin, you have to feel sorry for them. They think the world revolves around their skin and what they think about all the human skins. There is nothing to think about or consider in life but skin.
Send the stupid African-American fool who cant figure out whether he’s African or American to lovely Zimbabwe.
30-IQ morons who think they’re Africans first have no business on the American continent.
Go find a loin cloth and a spear and go chase monkeys for your lunch.
:)I’m 75 percent Irish.Had a Jewish Grandmom.
Sorry, Fatima - it was meant to be funny/silly.
((((HUGS)))) to you!
“Freeman thinks he should not be called America’s first black president”
Now the blacks want a racial purity rule. They already designate classes, such as redbone, etc...who’s the racists?
Oh stop.I took it as a joke.:)
I have to admit that there are a few people that are on the left that I have to make exceptions for. It may not be any of their new stuff, but if I’ve liked some movie for a long time and it was done by a master that happens to be liberal, I’m going to give them a pass. In general, we don’t go see movies any longer. I let my oldest see a couple at the Cinemagrill last year with his buddy—a Muppets movie and some cat movie, but that was because it was something for him and his buddy to do and it was fairly cheap. We as a family don’t see movies in general. My daughter, born in 2005, I don’t believe has ever seen a movie in the theatre. I can’t recall one. Right before she was born, we saw March of the Penguins as a family funny enough—narrated by Morgan Freeman.
I’m generally tight with a buck. Secondly, I don’t want to waste my husband’s hard earned money on the liberal machine. A machine that is being used to destroy our country. 99% of the well-known actors promote the leftist agenda and detest me and those like me. We don’t have a lot of extra funds, and I’m supposed to take our money and give it to rich liberals that want to destroy the country’s conservative, traditional foundations. No thanks. They can go to hell. I wouldn’t presume to tell other conservatives what to do with their money, but I’d be pretty happy if a majority of conservatives boycotted these people.
Nothing racist there.
Setting up blacks with a reason not to support ZerO.
Out of the mouths of babes...
I don’t give a damn is he’s every color of the rainbow. All I care about is how he governs. Freeman is probably convinced, I ‘Mr. Whitey to him’, sit here lamenting a Black man is at the helm of our nation.
Well, earth to Morgan Freeman, I only give a damn how badly he has screwed this nation and it’s citizens over.
Race is all that matters to you, and by God I am so sick of you racists thinking that it is me who is one.
Screw you, you jackass! Pull your head out of your ass and look at what this man is doing to your nation. Of course that assumes you’re even loyal to it in the first place. If you’re backing this ass-hat, that’s a very long odds bet.
And yes, if you were White, I’d be just as angry over it, you moron.
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