On Tea Party, Morgan Freeman Should Follow His Past Advice
October 5, 2011 at 1:27 pm | Posted in Pajamas Media | 2 CommentsTags: Black History Month, Collectivism, common good, individualism, Morgan Freeman, Piers Morgan, race, Racism, tea party
by Walter Hudson – Pajamas Media – October 5, 2011
Where’s the Morgan Freeman who once called for an end to condescending racial hand-wringing? Where’s the Morgan Freeman who once stunned Mike Wallace by calling Black History Month “ridiculous”?
You’re gonna relegate my history to a month?… I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history… Stop talking about [racism]. I’m gonna stop calling you a white man, and I’m gonna ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.
That venerable actor appears to be gone, replaced by a bitter doppelganger engaged in the very race-baiting he once decried.
A Natural Rights Movement Must Further Dr. King’s Dream
July 20, 2010 at 9:31 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Aveda King, Black History Month, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, glenn beck, Martin Luther King Jr., Mike Wallace, Morgan Freeman, Natural Law, natural rights, Racism, redistribution of wealth, Socialism, Wealth Redistribution
by Walter Scott Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
In a 2005 interview with 60 Minutes, actor Morgan Freeman took Mike Wallace completely aback by calling Black History Month “ridiculous.” Freeman affirmed the condescending nature of the commemoration by prompting Wallace to confess no desire for a “Jewish History Month.”
“Black history is American history,” Freeman proclaimed. When a confounded Wallace asked how else to combat racism, Freeman’s answer came without a moment’s hesitation.
Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.
This obscure moment in pop culture history echoes a lost sentiment from the Civil Rights Movement. Like Freeman, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., sought regard as a man, not a black man. To the Left, such respect is unacceptable, because it eliminates balkanization and diffuses useful tensions.
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