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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: PapaBear3625
Just compare pictures of actual Africans from West Africa, versus “African Americans”.

OK.

Other than a house, garage, 2 cars, running water, electricity, gas, yards, streets, streetlights, grocery stores, refrigerators, washers, dryers, clothing stores, PayDay Loans, crack dealers, hookers, closets full of clothes, shoes to match each outfit, swimming pool, sauna, cell phones, the Internet, WideScreen Digital TV,UI income, Foodstamps, SS Disability checks, ATM machines, drug abuse, gangs, murder, rape, how much difference is there?

61 posted on 07/06/2012 3:57:45 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Seizethecarp

Such a shame — all the more so because not too long ago, the same Morgan Freeman was wisely saying that a way to reduce race as an issue was to “stop talking about it” (race) all the dang time. Now he has reversed himself and cannot STFU about race, going so far as to offer a pedigree on Obama’s degree of blackness.

A disgrace.


62 posted on 07/06/2012 3:57:47 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: UCANSEE2
from somewhere actually in the country of Africa

Truly, truly, really, really hate being picky, but....

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Continent?

63 posted on 07/06/2012 3:59:13 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good point. Freeman isn’t exactly one to preach morality.


64 posted on 07/06/2012 3:59:32 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: Jonah Vark
the unwritten rule...if you have a drop of black blood and you're successful, then you're all black....

dontcha all know that?

because we all know that the SCM LOVES to pull out the race card in everything and all things, to make a story....

65 posted on 07/06/2012 4:02:10 PM PDT by cherry (Catholics for Romney)
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To: Seizethecarp

His base beginning to find excuses to distance itself from him?


66 posted on 07/06/2012 4:03:27 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

No, he’s a half breed who believes America should follow socialist and communist beliefs.


67 posted on 07/06/2012 4:04:18 PM PDT by B4Ranch (There's Two Choices... Stand Up and Be Counted ... Or Line Up and Be Numbered .)
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To: Seizethecarp

Morgan Freeman’s likeability just took another hit.


68 posted on 07/06/2012 4:05:55 PM PDT by Amagi (Chief Justice John Roberts is a traitorous weasel.)
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To: Seizethecarp

I swear Freeman sounds crazier every time he opens his pie hole. By his definition, a very high percentage of people who are considered Black by today’s standards would not be Black. Very large numbers of Aframs have “white” blood. Which simply points out the idiocy of “racial” classification.


69 posted on 07/06/2012 4:09:54 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: UCANSEE2

I would give my right arm for Cain to be our candidate, instead of a flamin’ RINO LIBERAL!


70 posted on 07/06/2012 4:11:29 PM PDT by yorkie
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To: Seizethecarp

He's 'AF-BLAC!

71 posted on 07/06/2012 4:15:17 PM PDT by yorkie
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To: Seizethecarp
what ? now it's NOT the one drop rule ? first is was, then It isn’t then it was now it's not ?

oh wait...it's only one drop when it serves your purpose.

72 posted on 07/06/2012 4:16:53 PM PDT by stylin19a (Obama - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
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To: Seizethecarp

Another Hollywood luminary we don’t need to hear from concerning politics.


73 posted on 07/06/2012 4:17:01 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Seizethecarp

I kinda agree, Obama’s Mama was a no-account child bearing slut who abandoned him, his siblings, and besides, nobody knows who is his real daddy.
Now if he was born in Kenya we might be talking about the BLACK MESSIAH and all would be OK with the world....right/ left ?????? Mr Freeman.....by the way how is that incestuous relationship working out?


74 posted on 07/06/2012 4:17:21 PM PDT by BilLies ((Ass.Press, NYTimes, WaPOSt , etc., hate your Traditional American guts!))
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To: Seizethecarp

Morgabn Freeman, will Alan West or Tom Scott do... It would be nice to see a ticket of West and Scott!!


75 posted on 07/06/2012 4:19:25 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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To: Seizethecarp

Sorry, Morgan, there may not be any ‘black’ candidates, by your qualification protocol. It is likely that all blacks who have actually, really, truly, been born in the United States are ‘mulato’...they probably all (an ivory soap oercentage 99.4%) have non-black blood mixed in somewhere.

Now, for the record, this president is this countries Number One (N-word deleted)...He is black enough to make him a Kenyan. He is black enough to make him the first black President. And yes, he is ‘af-black’. But he is still an American hating, Islamofasist, Evil, PONS.

He is so bad, that now you other ‘af-black’s’ don’t want to own him as a part of your ‘race’, is that right? But you all voted for him. You all voted for him because he was ‘black’. So live with it. You want to change horses in the middle of the stream? Vote for a conservative for President. Vote for the party that got you the passage of the Civil Rights Act when Johnson was President. Vote for the party that has always given you and everyone else employment.

In other words, Morgan, you need to put your money where your mouth is.


76 posted on 07/06/2012 4:31:12 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders.)
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To: aruanan

true but I always correct anyone who states African American as I point out that whites too are also African American.
Also my oldest has a kid from Africa and the American blacks hate him and call him white, why ?because he tries hard in school and does well in his education plus uses manners.

American blacks have no idea about their past and can only say slavery but ask them what part of Africa and most cannot even name 3 countries in Africa let alone where they’re supposed to have come from.


77 posted on 07/06/2012 4:36:34 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Seizethecarp

I always knew that he was a racist pedophile but his stupidity is mind numbing.

LLS


78 posted on 07/06/2012 4:40:16 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: ScottinSacto
I heard on Oprah that if you had one drop of black blood in you, you were black. I guess if a white person says a person is mixed, that is somehow racist. But blacks judge hard on the darkness of their brothers and sisters. Morgan is light skinned. Is he not black? Why does he even bring that up?
79 posted on 07/06/2012 4:41:38 PM PDT by ladyellen
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To: Seizethecarp
Well, Morgan if it makes you happy to think that then you just go right ahead.

Bless his heart.

80 posted on 07/06/2012 4:42:17 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.)
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