Black-history month ripped as ridiculous (Morgan Freeman blasts label as divisive to all Americans)

WorldNetDaily ^ | 12/18/05 | WorldNetDaily

[SunnySide]

(I can never understand why King never gets slapped for his racist depictions.)

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I can never understand why he never gets slapped period. The man is warped. Most of his movies have a recurring theme of portraying children as dark, mysterious or evil. So the impression King leaves is he was picked on in his youth(?) Put him in the Michael Moore, Me Against the World Club

[The Black Knight]

"Get rid of the 'I am hurt', and you remove the hurt."

Epectitus or Cicero, can't remember which.

[festus]

Calypso Louie could sell bow ties

That or rides on the mother ship.

[blackie]

Roger that ~ Bump!

[Soul Seeker]

IMO, one of the finest actors living.

What he has stated is right. By emphasizing color you call attention to color above the nature of the person. Priorties are 180 degrees turned around from where they should be.

It heightens tensions among those whom race actually matters, and it actually serves the purpose of separately races from each other. If we're going to be separate let it be based on Character...beliefs...ideals....race should play no more of a role than eye color.

[ashtanga]

Well, there is only history, to be sure, but cultures that do not innovate do not contribute significantly to history. This is not necessarily racial, as some Semitic and Asian cultures seem to belong outside the stream of invention. At one time Islam was revolutionary, for example, and then at some point turned its back on the flow of time. The West cavorted in the idea that nature could be harnessed to its wishes, and suffered many upheavals in consequence of the desire to recast itself in religious, biological, psychic and digital terms. One may say that we were pursuing a fools dream, but we did make history.

[WileyC]

Shawshank was taken from a Stephen King story in his book "Different Seasons", and that one story was a great read, too.

Wow, a Stephen King story that was turned into a good movie! I guess that raises the total to two. =) (The Shining, of course, being the other one.)

[Leatherneck_MT]

Outstanding common sense

Outstanding Actor as well

Always knew Freeman had more sense about him than 90% of his Hollywierd counterparts.

[Tired of Taxes]

"Different Seasons" is the only Stephen King book I've ever read, too. One of the other stories in the book was made into the movie, Stand By Me. Then there was that other story about the perfect little boy who turns into a homicidal maniac... disturbing! Whenever I hear reports of people who "just went off the deep end... he was such a good guy... then he just snapped," I remember that story. I think King got it right on the mark.

[MissAmericanPie]

Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington are two of my favorite actors and are class acts in their personal lives as well. When Mr. Washington visited a base here in Texas he donated the money to have two houses built on base.

I have always considered Mr. Freeman an intellectual giant and his goodness shines from within him like a beacon calling all to a higher standard just by his presence. Too bad neither has taken the road to politics, I think they both have much to offer in bettering the nation.

[wagglebee]

I think Morgan Freeman is an incredible actor, "Shawshank Redemption" is one of my all-time favorite movies even though it has Tim Robbins in it. I don't necessarily think that Denzel Washington is a "great" actor, but I've enjoyed every one of his movies.

I'd like to see both of them (and James Earl Jones too) start telling Blacks the truth the way Bill Cosby has been doing the past few years.

[aculeus]

He makes perfect sense.

Indeed. One other celeb who's handled it properly is Tiger Woods. Calling him black or african American would insult his mother ... and maybe annoy his blond wife.

[Uncle Vlad]

While we're on the topic, the term "African-American" has always bothered me. With everything blacks have given to this country, why do they only rate a "hyphen?" Aren't they as American as anybody else?

[Pravious]

Freeman's expressed exactly how I feel about it. I remember years ago asking my daughter's school when they were going to have "White Male European History Month". Strangely enough, they didn't take that as a constructive suggestion, or maybe there weren't enough months left in the school year after "Women's History Month," "Gay History Month," "Muslim History Month," and "Rain Forest Appreciation Month."

[wagglebee]

Tiger Woods has handled fame and success with more class than anyone in recent memory. I though it was very telling earlier this year when he went through his "slump" while his father was dying, he never once tried to blame anyone for his playing or make any excuses, then he got refocused and came back roaring.

[wagglebee]

While we're on the topic, the term "African-American" has always bothered me.

My ancestry is almost entirely Irish and they came to the US in the late 19th Century and it has never crossed my mind to identify myself as an "Irish-American." The ancestors of many (probably most) Blacks were in America before the Revolution, that gives them a "longer" history in the US than nearly all Americans who have never considered a hyphen.