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11:39 pm - 07/06/2012

Oh, God...

Morgan Freeman says US doesn't have a black president.
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Morgan Freeman has one of the best, most recognizable voices in Hollywood. The words that come out of his mouth always sound amazing — even if what he says is totally from another planet.

In an interview with NPR, Freeman expressed his opinion about Barack Obama's heritage, saying that he's not black enough to be America's first black president. "Barack had a mama and she was white, very white American, Kansas, middle of America," Freeman said. He later added, "America's first black president hasn't arisen yet ... [Obama] is America's first mixed-race president." Freeman also criticized the Republican Party for "purposely [thwarting]" Obama. Morgan, how 'bout sticking to words that other people write for you?

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So, according to Morgan Freeman, I'm not black, since I'm only half black... good thing I don't give a fuck what Morgan Freeman thinks when it comes to the race I choose to identify as.
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devour_theflesh 7th-Jul-2012 03:43 am (UTC)
COME ON
deadendqueen16 7th-Jul-2012 03:44 am (UTC)
Oh dear...
delusive 7th-Jul-2012 05:12 am (UTC)
my thoughts exactly. :\
goldenmeans 7th-Jul-2012 03:44 am (UTC)
He should stick to narrating movies about wildlife.
empirebird 7th-Jul-2012 03:52 am (UTC)
and the universe... and movies in general...
andisprohi 7th-Jul-2012 04:27 am (UTC)
and dating sort of family members
dannysstargirl 7th-Jul-2012 04:40 am (UTC)
huh?
may_neuma 7th-Jul-2012 06:01 am (UTC)
mte :/
chantemarissa 7th-Jul-2012 03:03 pm (UTC)
He said that was false.
djan31 7th-Jul-2012 03:38 pm (UTC)
I agree, sexy icon Andrew.
javamonster983 7th-Jul-2012 03:45 am (UTC)
...lawd
leviicorpus 7th-Jul-2012 03:45 am (UTC)
...Well I guess not even god can be perfect all the time.
bordellos 7th-Jul-2012 03:45 am (UTC)
this is also coming from the guy who said racism will disappear if we stop talking about it, so....
myhipusername 7th-Jul-2012 03:48 am (UTC)
whaat did he really?
rexilla 7th-Jul-2012 03:50 am (UTC)
mjfan4lyfe 7th-Jul-2012 03:49 am (UTC)
i'll never forgive him for that, it's like the go-to quote for every "color blind" racist in an argument
callme_morbid 7th-Jul-2012 03:58 am (UTC)
m t e
i can't really respect him after that fuckery.
fatbom 7th-Jul-2012 04:02 am (UTC)
mte
taqbei 7th-Jul-2012 04:06 am (UTC)
mhm. people love to reblog that ignorant mess.
youheadbuttyou 7th-Jul-2012 04:25 am (UTC)
Ugh, I hate when people use that in race arguments. It's not like he's the fucking spokesperson for all minorities.
kimberwyn 7th-Jul-2012 04:36 am (UTC)
mte lol. I'm like, are people just now realizing he's crazy??
pixiedivision 7th-Jul-2012 02:26 pm (UTC)
I don't think you actually understand what he meant by that
violue 7th-Jul-2012 03:45 am (UTC)
Are you fucking kidding me, Freeman!?
oatmealmonster 7th-Jul-2012 03:45 am (UTC)
I do understand what he is saying but it misses the fact that his life wasn't his mothers simply because of his skin color (and more but that was huge in determining his life). I know he thinks his mother gave him an advantage, and she probably did, but don't put him down because he still faced issues that other black people do.

Edited at 2012-07-07 03:46 am (UTC)
juunanagou18 7th-Jul-2012 03:46 am (UTC)
If he said that shit verbatim, I just lost so much respect for him. He doesn't even realize half the shit mixed Black kids go through and is only furthering the belief that if you're not "100%" African-American, then you're not Black.

Tired of this shit.
empirebird 7th-Jul-2012 03:54 am (UTC)
If only being 100% of African decent qualifies you to be black, then a lot, A LOT, of African-Americans are not black.
fay_of_sunshine 7th-Jul-2012 03:57 am (UTC)
THIS
juunanagou18 7th-Jul-2012 03:58 am (UTC)
Believe me when I say that it makes no damn sense, but I've gone through it as a child and I still do in my 20s. I'm Dominican/AA, but only have I had AAs tell me that I'm not Black. It's like, excuse me? I have the same medium-brown skintone as you, my surname recalls my father's AA heritage, I refer to myself as a Black *and* Hispanic woman, but since I "look" different and call attention to my Latin heritage, I'm not Black.

It's just ignorance, and it's hard to reason with that.

Edited at 2012-07-07 03:59 am (UTC)
runandtelldat 7th-Jul-2012 04:04 am (UTC)
lol irk.
wildfawn 7th-Jul-2012 04:10 am (UTC)
this, exactly. there is no such thing as being 100% one race, is there? the first humans on earth were supposedly black.
supernature_971 7th-Jul-2012 04:17 am (UTC)
mte

And not just African-American tbh. I'm pretty sure most people from the caribbean who have black heritage identify as black but pretty much all of them are mixed.

Edited at 2012-07-07 04:19 am (UTC)
executivehpfan 7th-Jul-2012 04:02 am (UTC)
So much this. I'm sick of this whole, "You're not black enough!" shit.
poison_sin 7th-Jul-2012 08:28 am (UTC)
seriously
boku_no_hanabi 7th-Jul-2012 09:52 am (UTC)
This. It's so hard for kids who might not be accepted fully by their friends or family and feel caught between two worlds.

Even if you're 100% black it still happens. My friend's parents were from Africa and I remember the other kids saying he was too "white". Like he didn't act all gangsta and ugh. It made me so mad. People couldn't just be who they are.

Oh Morgan. Why can't you just be proud of the man?
xtoki_dokix 7th-Jul-2012 10:08 am (UTC)
SAME.

I get called "not black" because I'm mixed too and its like what the fuck ok I'm obviously black just because I have long hair doesnt mean I'm any less a black person. I'm the exact same skin color so what the?! But I CONSTANTLY get

"Well you don't count"
"Well you're not BLACK black"

DANG.
xfdryad 7th-Jul-2012 12:34 pm (UTC)
Dear Full Black People -

This is the kind of reverse racism crap that makes me sit with the white kids at lunch.

Yours, Apparently Not A Black Person
haverchuck_bill 7th-Jul-2012 01:57 pm (UTC)
I have no first hand experience but after listening to my mixed husband, my heart absolutely breaks for anyone in that situation. He was "too white" for his black family members and "too black" for his white family members growing up. He doesn't talk to 95% of his family for the way he was treated growing up.

It also seems like he has two identities because he acts and talks different depending on who he is around. It's sad because he doesn't feel accepted just the way he is, which, in my eyes is amazing.
anagram42 7th-Jul-2012 03:46 am (UTC)
:(
I don't remember any of this horrible criticism over irrelevant things about any president that's ever been in office except for this one.
bee_xx3 7th-Jul-2012 03:51 am (UTC)
this
wildfawn 7th-Jul-2012 03:53 am (UTC)
yep, plus his name. i never realised he was mixed til like, after he was president.

i'm not even sure why it matters anyway. how can people (black, white, any race) not get over it?
carbons 7th-Jul-2012 07:40 am (UTC)
mte! and how convenient that the tea party came about while he was in office... racist assholes.
age_of_green 7th-Jul-2012 07:11 pm (UTC)
They won't admit it's racism, they'll say something about how most black people are lazy welfare queens and that Obama is an exception not the rule. This is why I no longer talk politics with my father.
juunanagou18 7th-Jul-2012 03:52 am (UTC)
His race has brought the crazy to the forefront and no one can tell me any differently. The only president to have any large-scale vitrol against him solely because of who is was was JFK because he was the first Catholic president, but at the end of the day he was still white.
roguedandelion 7th-Jul-2012 05:20 am (UTC)
Actually JFK is a good example. Catholics were scary brainless dirty people back then.

And Clinton got his fair share of completely irrelevant criticism(his marriage etc).

But with Obama, the guy is so squeaky clean in his personal life they have literally nothing but thinly veiled racist attacks.
evilgmbethy 7th-Jul-2012 06:53 am (UTC)
there was a lot of stupid fuckery in the Clinton Era, like claiming Bill and Hillary killed their friend who committed suicide, but yeah, it was not nearly to this level.
yalingster 7th-Jul-2012 03:46 am (UTC)
LOL GOD POSTED WHAT GOD HATH SPOKENTH

PRAISE UR LIGHT OP.

brb im going to read this article now
empirebird 7th-Jul-2012 03:54 am (UTC)
lol
isntdaveone 7th-Jul-2012 03:46 am (UTC)
hated him ever since his 9/11 comment about how it was not a national incident.

"We had a trauma, but it's really not a national trauma," Freeman told New York 1 movie critic Neal Rosen, when asked whether audiences were ready for a movie about a terrorist attack. "If you were not in New York on Sept. 11, what you saw was an event on CNN," Freeman said.
drunkagron 7th-Jul-2012 03:50 am (UTC)
SMH
jearsforqueers 7th-Jul-2012 03:55 am (UTC)
OHHH GURLLLL. I CANNOT.
empirebird 7th-Jul-2012 03:59 am (UTC)
While I do think it was more traumatic for New Yorkers, the nation as a whole was attacked, and was threatened, so no, it wasn't an event, like something the rest of the nation watched passively. SMH
mollywobbles867 7th-Jul-2012 04:08 am (UTC)
Right? I was a sophomore in college and I found out from the TV in the student center after my first class. I called my dad asking if we were at war now. I panicked about other attacks happening around the country. It was not a passive experience at all.
arielcharming 7th-Jul-2012 04:34 am (UTC)
*and the people in Washington DC & PA
04nbod 7th-Jul-2012 01:07 pm (UTC)
America was so unused to outsider attacks on their own shores and it does seem like the entire country freaked out. One of the lasting effects was that America no longer saw itself as untouchable and that shook the country in a way it didn't Bali, Spain or Britain when they were attacked. 9/11 was a massive cultural shift in the US, like a coming of age.
jrh19782002 7th-Jul-2012 06:13 pm (UTC)
im in alabama and it happened in nyc then washington dc.i was freakin out omg there gonna go to the cdc in atlanta and blow it up and kill us all with a virus.
freckles929 7th-Jul-2012 04:22 am (UTC)
Right, because New York was the only place that was attacked on 9/11...
leitao 7th-Jul-2012 04:42 am (UTC)
WTF?!

How did I miss that quote? SMH . . .
itakebacksunday 7th-Jul-2012 04:45 am (UTC)
wow
slaygalthessily 7th-Jul-2012 06:18 am (UTC)
sometimes i wonder if he means to say one thing and it comes out another way.
evilgmbethy 7th-Jul-2012 06:55 am (UTC)
tbh it was a global tragedy, not only because there were people from all over the world in those towers, but also because it radically changed our foreign policy in ways that ended up killing loads of people all over the world. so. yeah. wtf.
browniecakemix 7th-Jul-2012 08:15 am (UTC)
I mean, I think he worded this poorly and I don't think it's fair to say that the nation was not traumatized by it (it irreparably altered the course of pretty much all our national politics forever), but he has a point in that New Yorkers (and, I mean, Washingtonians, Pennsylvanians, and all those whose lives were immediately impacted by way of loved ones dying) experienced 9/11 very, very differently from the rest of the country.
boku_no_hanabi 7th-Jul-2012 10:22 am (UTC)
I can try to understand why he said that. But there were families from all over affected, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, etc. So he's a douche. /sensitivenewyorker
jellibeen 7th-Jul-2012 10:44 am (UTC)
damn, wtf is that
maribarbola 7th-Jul-2012 11:39 am (UTC)
Jesus F. Christ.

And what about those who live on the other side of the ocean (Spain in my case)but had family there? One of my cousins was working in Wall Street at the time and we spent all fucking day trying to get news of him.
(Thank God that day he was sent to the other side of the island, but my aunt was practically in hysterics all day)
ty_slilreject 7th-Jul-2012 11:54 am (UTC)
yeesh, wow.
cpb1220 7th-Jul-2012 01:10 pm (UTC)
I feel like I get what he was trying to say... but uhhh that did not come out right MF what the hell.
amethystcitrine 7th-Jul-2012 02:44 pm (UTC)
....ugh
leopard_legs 7th-Jul-2012 05:12 pm (UTC)
That's ridiculous. 9/11 affected Americans in general. In fact, it affected the whole of the west. It was a sign of what was to come.

I'm from the UK and it was terrifying, people were scared out of their minds. And then a few years later, 7/7 attacks.
tribulation 17th-Jul-2012 07:16 am (UTC)
Damn, he stays running his mouth, huh?
superpchan 7th-Jul-2012 03:47 am (UTC)
Oh boy.

hypermuseic9 7th-Jul-2012 03:48 am (UTC)
he's cute
chrislola 7th-Jul-2012 07:18 am (UTC)
that fucking commercial. i hate it. omg, that's less than my haircut, that's less than my bag, that's less than i paid for your gift, and yet it's more than my iq.
secretchord 9th-Jul-2012 04:58 am (UTC)
ugh, that commercial, mte
happy_endings11 7th-Jul-2012 03:47 am (UTC)
My friend who is mixed tells me this all the time. He gets so pissed when people call the president black and goes on pretty much the same rant.
andres01234 7th-Jul-2012 03:49 am (UTC)
your friend must not like himself
happy_endings11 7th-Jul-2012 04:47 am (UTC)
Actually, he loves himself. He's pretty confident in who he is :: Shrugs ::.
devetu 7th-Jul-2012 03:54 am (UTC)
mixed people who don't like being called black have issues. your friend is black, obama is black, i'm black. you can be black and mixed at the same time.
juunanagou18 7th-Jul-2012 03:55 am (UTC)
Obama has said before that he is a Black man, without negating his white heritage. Being mixed doesn't mean you have to claim one side over the other, it means you get to claim both and give no fucks while doing so.
efantombombadil 7th-Jul-2012 04:55 am (UTC)
In a way, it makes a lot of sense, at least to identify yrself as not white, not black, but rather both. To tell other people they can't can start to get a little difficult.

Still, what Morgan Freeman says gets into the whole binary thinking regarding race, that to some, to have any black ancestry at all equals black, and to others, having any white ancestry equals not black enough. With that kind of thinking anyone who doesn't readily fit isn't always having the best time.

I'm trying to see this as maybe Morgan Freeman is saying, because the President was raised by a white midwestern family, and his father was from Kenya, his experience would be different from most black Americans, who have been here for generations.

At least the President is in a much more immediate sense African-American.
hope_remains 7th-Jul-2012 05:09 am (UTC)
Honestly, I feel like when a lot of white people see a half black/half white person, they identify that person as black. The whole "one-drop" thing, and all.
asdfjklkjhfds 7th-Jul-2012 06:27 am (UTC)
i'm mixed and my mother says this all the time :/
zemi_chan 7th-Jul-2012 03:47 am (UTC)
lol @ Freeman for thinking he actually has a say in how anyone, nevermind the President, identifies themselves racially.
bluekrinkle 7th-Jul-2012 07:25 am (UTC)
Mte
ar_feiniel_ 7th-Jul-2012 05:10 pm (UTC)
this
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