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Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet (white mama disqualifies)
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/05/156212527/morgan-freeman-no-black-president-for-u-s-yet ^ | July 6, 2012 | NPR staff

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; race; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: Seizethecarp

Go back through Morgan Freeman’s past. I guarantee you he’s not what he demands others to be. Besides, his and other’s exclusive focus on race is laughable. If they, for one second, imagine themselves, somehow, because of their race, to be “African,” they are some of the most deluded people on the face of the earth. In Africa there is no generic African—everybody’s a member of a tribe and/or language group. That has a higher priority in day-to-day life than melanin content. And black Africans laugh at black Americans dressed up in their dashikis and cowry shell necklaces and other Africanoid clothing thinking they are “celebrating their heritage.” They know that black Americans are WAY more American in their attitudes and outlook on life than they could ever be African.


21 posted on 07/06/2012 2:56:08 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Seizethecarp

Most blacks in the US are mixed-race, to some degree, including Morgan Freeman. Just compare pictures of actual Africans from West Africa, versus “African Americans”.


22 posted on 07/06/2012 2:57:18 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Knowing Morgan Freeman from previous news reports, it raised my blood pressure really rise when the Independence Day church service had a patriotic film narrated by ... MF?!?!? Yes I know that the media has a love affair with deep melodious voices from Paul Robeson on. What would Darth Vader have been without James Earl Jones voicing his lines? Now I would like to watch the science channel program, “Through the Wormhole” but since it is narrated by MF, I find it easy to skip. YUCK this idiot!


23 posted on 07/06/2012 2:58:36 PM PDT by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence!)
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To: aruanan

How many people saw the Skip Gates Project on PBS where they took blood and DNA samples from many black folks and then proved to a lot if them that they had no identifiable history with slave ancestors. Morgan Freeman is descended from slaves but you should have seen for instance Maya Angelou’s face when Gates told her she was like more white than African and her ancestors all came here from Trinidad. LOL


24 posted on 07/06/2012 3:05:23 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Morgan’s words ring of racism to me. Looking for someone of a certain racial purity should have gone out with the search for pure “Aryans” of some decades ago.


25 posted on 07/06/2012 3:05:42 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: Seizethecarp

This is huge!
Let it start.
The left blacks will abandon him...I’ve been saying to other blacks that he has no slavery blood in him and they have permission to abandon him and there’s always defensiveness...

Freeman saying this is just the beginning...


26 posted on 07/06/2012 3:10:14 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: Seizethecarp
Why would anyone listen to the moron (Freeman) who raped his granddaughter?

That this fool would be allowed in the public eye is in itself a disgrace.
Taking anything he says seriously is a travesty.

27 posted on 07/06/2012 3:11:19 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: Seizethecarp

she was red ... not white


28 posted on 07/06/2012 3:12:13 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: RobinOfKingston

This “racial purity” crap our black brothers and sisters learned at the knee of their supposed political party heroes like racist Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger of Eugenics fame. “Progressives” / “Liberals” same horse different rider. Which political party is the home of the Klan?


29 posted on 07/06/2012 3:13:24 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Seizethecarp
So the Halfrican-American doesn't qualify?

He's not the descendant of slaves, he's the descendant of slave sellers.

30 posted on 07/06/2012 3:13:57 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Seizethecarp

...does Morgan want his nuts too?


31 posted on 07/06/2012 3:14:14 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Pigsley
I used to like him, as an actor, too. Nice voice.

I know. Why do they have to let words leave their mouths outside of the movies? It always ruins it.

32 posted on 07/06/2012 3:14:25 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: atc23

try 4/8 white,3/8 Arab slave trader, and 1/8 black


33 posted on 07/06/2012 3:17:01 PM PDT by jrd (DO AWAY WITH THE EPA)
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To: aruanan

> Go back through Morgan Freeman’s past. I guarantee you
> he’s not what he demands others to be. . . .

Started to do just that and came up with this (unrelated to the current issue of race but indicative of the pressures he must be under):

Denzel Washington & Morgan Freeman’s Porn Star Sons Dis
Montana Fishburne

By TheUrbanDaily Staff
The Urban Daily
Augus 25, 2010

After Montana Fishburne has received so much media
attention for her porno movie, three guys claiming to be
the sons of Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Samuel
Jackson have dissed her in a recent online video while
bragging about their own porno movies. . . .

http://theurbandaily.com/897035/children-of-hollywood-actors-in-porn-speak-out-on-montana-fishburne/


34 posted on 07/06/2012 3:17:44 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Seizethecarp

***MORGAN FREEMAN MARRIED HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, BTW....****

Disgusting...? YEP.


35 posted on 07/06/2012 3:20:23 PM PDT by insideguy
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To: Seizethecarp

He’s right. I get so annoyed with the whole “first black President” business. So many people voted for him just because he was “black.” He’s not black.


36 posted on 07/06/2012 3:21:09 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Seizethecarp

“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.

Lucky for him that he did have a WHITE Mama very white American, Kansas. Now I will ask you to consider something. It’s what I call “Where would they be?” It’s kind of like follow the money when seeking out Democrats and corruption.

Where would Barack Hussein Obama be? If he had not had a white Mama. And especially if he had not had a white Grandfather and Grandmother. Who else would have raised him his mother seems to have been out of the picture as far as being responsible for raising her child. Maybe she picked up this trait during the time she spent with his womanizing philandering baby making daddy who by all accounts was some kind of international playboy. And who disappeared from the picture shortly after his birth. That is of course if he was really Baracks father. Most black men do not know their fathers or actually who their fathers are. So now we must ask where would he be? He would most likely have been raised on the welfare and food stamp system. Lived in Government housing and spent his free time (every hour of his life) playing basketball on the gubmint playground, drinking, gang banging, and getting high in the hood. He would not have gotten an education in the countrys finest colleges or gotten a law degree. He might even have wound up in prison. Just take a moment and think about it all if not for his wealthy white Grandfather. Where would He be?


37 posted on 07/06/2012 3:21:09 PM PDT by cquiggy
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To: Seizethecarp

As far as I’m concerned, Freeman can take his “gravitas” and shove it. He’s just another racist black man seeking revenge on Whitey.


38 posted on 07/06/2012 3:21:22 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: boomop1

We bin down di rode b4.

Many of the race hustlers said years back that Barack was not black enough.

As if Moron Freeman won’t donate big time to Obama this time?

CNN Host Promotes Liberal Morgan Freeman’s Demand Obama Get ‘Fighting Mad’
Published: 8/25/2011 10:08 AM ET

Morgan Freeman: ‘We’re In a Lot of Trouble If We Don’t Reelect Obama’ - People on Other Side ‘Scare Me’

By Noel Sheppard | June 20, 2012 | 09:04

Liberal Actor Morgan Freeman Calls Tea Party “Racist,” Herman Cain Slams Back (video)

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 25, 2011

BLACK AND NOT A DEMOCRAT
http://rightcogency.wordpress.com/


39 posted on 07/06/2012 3:24:40 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Bernard Marx

He looks to be of mixed heritage himself.


40 posted on 07/06/2012 3:25:14 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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