(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Renowned actor Morgan Freeman went off script from the typical Hollywood identity politics narrative during an interview with a U.K. news outlet.
“Two things I can say publicly that I do not like,” he told the Sunday Times of London. “Black History Month is an insult. You’re going to relegate my history to a month?”
The 85-year-old movie icon went on to say that “Also, ‘African-American’ is an insult. I don’t subscribe to that title. Black people have had different titles all the way back to the n-word and I do not know how these things get such a grip, but everyone uses ‘African-American.’
“What does it really mean? Most black people in this part of the world are mongrels. And you say Africa as if it’s a country when it’s a continent, like Europe.”
Along these lines, Freeman “also argued that people talk about ‘Irish-Americans’ and ‘Italian-Americans,’ but not Euro-Americans,'” Fox News reported.
Freeman endorsed a comment recalled by the Times reporter made by superstar Denzel Washington, who once said that he is very proud to be black, “but black is not all I am.”
“I’m in total agreement,” Freeman asserted.
People still often talk about Morgan Freeman’s 60 Minutes interview back in 2005 when he expressed similar views, using almost identical words, about the month-long commemoration lacking sufficient inclusivity.
Black history month is “ridiculous,” he said on the long-running CBS TV news magazine.
In the sit down with the late Mike Wallace, the actor who is blessed with a powerful speaking voice surprised the liberal journalist when he rhetorically asked, “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?…Which month is white history month?”
“I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history,” Freeman added.
He also insisted to Wallace that the way to rid the country of racism is to “stop talking about it.”
During the Obama administration, Morgan Freeman accused the GOP of racism for its opposition to the Democrat president’s agenda.
He put forth this allegation in a CNN interview with Piers Morgan (who had taken over Larry King’s timeslot).
