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December 15, 2005
Morgan Freeman Attacks Our Concept of Racism
Morgan Freeman criticized Black History Month saying the whole idea is ridiculous.
"You're going to relegate my history to a month?" the 68-year-old actor says in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" to air Sunday (7 p.m. EST). "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history."....
Freeman notes there is no "white history month," and says the only way to get rid of racism is to "stop talking about it."
The actor says he believes the labels "black" and "white" are an obstacle to beating racism.
The whole idea is very strange. Halle Barry has one parent who is white and another who is black, so does Alicia Keys, yet we consider both of them black. Many people in our country are one-quarter black, yet we still consider them black. Why is that? Why aren't Halle Barry and Alicia Keys white? Why does it matter? There are many more examples, I bring them up because they are the first two that came to my mind. We need to reconsider our classifications.
Posted by Chip Spear at December 15, 2005 10:21 PM
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We consider Halle Berry and Alicia Keyes black for a very simple reason: their skin is black. Calling them white would be kind of silly, because their skin color is not white.
Posted by: DG at December 16, 2005 12:33 AM