Morgan Freeman: “Obama is Not America’s First Black President”
When asked during the campaign how he views himself, candidate Barack Obama said that he views himself as black. He went onto say that cab drivers 
who pass him by on the street also view him as black. But Morgan Freeman doesn’t buy the idea that President Obama is America’s first black president.
The Oscar winner explained what he meant on NPR:
First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him … they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white American, Kansas, middle of America,” Freeman said. “There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet. He’s not America’s first black president — he’s America’s first mixed-race president.
Do you agree with Freeman? Are we still waiting for America’s first black president?
Comments
Powered by Facebook Comments
yeah but yu know what they always said if u got a drop of black blood…………you black lol
Who’s is “they” ? I keep wondering what omnipotent entity has that kind of power? Black is a social term not a biological one. No one is really Black they are Black socially and politically that is it. A drop of melanin means only that you have a drop of melanin added to your genes that have very little if you are white. I am Black because my parents are and I do not care about who raped who on the plantation I am Black and my ancestors are from West Africa and the Caribbean.
I am a white person that has a lot of respect for you and your, for like of a better word, people. Even a as little boy I could not see abusing the Black people in our community. I was raised in North Florida, but no longer live there. My opinion has always been if a person could do the job then it made no difference who, what or what color that person was.
I totally agree with you about thebest person forthe job. For lack of a better – what the h**l do you mean?
this is lunacy. most (if not all) black people in the US have white ancestors – ‘black’ itself is a multiracial category. the importance of what cab drivers and police see has nothing to do with who your parents are, or for that matter who you ‘really’ are – it is the way race and blackness work as a social, public, and sometimes lethal category.
but we all know morgan is having a large set of issues these days.
for more on why ‘multiracial’ is problematic, check out philosopher jared sexton’s book Amalgamation Schemes.
THANK YOU for being so INTELLIGENT, learned and on POINT! I stopped listening to and valuing what M. Freeman said and stands for a LONG time ago! He is the poster boy for the nightmare effects of American/Western/white brainwashing. If anyone is aware of the history of “our” people’s history – American Africans – then that person would know that the a HUGE portion of native born Blacks are new world African people (that also includes Africans in the Americas) and we most likely have the lineage of at least 3 “nations” flowing through our “veins” – Native, African and European! While our possessing these varied ethnic group ancestories may be important, or of some value, let us NOT forget that none of this and root people of all the earth’s “sub-ethnic/racial” groups. The thing about our POTUS is that he is truly an African American and his wife is and American African! Whatever we LABEL and divide ourselves as – which can most certainly be counterproductive to Black unity and national cohesiveness – we are ALL Black people – and NO amount of white “blood” can or will change that, especially HERE in the good ole US of A! As for me, I’m good just knowing that I am Eve and a new world African; but more importantly, in Yeshua Ha Messiah – Jesus the Christ, I am a child of the Most High All and All and there is NO division within the Almighty! Thanks Professor Jawn for your insightful and SANE response. Y’all be cool and don’t sweat the small stuff (or people); and remember that it’s ALL mostly small stuff in the grand scheme of things! Peace!
That is not true! How unintelligent it is for anyone to still think this. Not every African slave was raped by a white man! Some people escaped to Canada, some mingled and live with the Native Indians. In order for your statement to be accurate every Black persons ancestors where either raped or their was a plantation version of Caligula going on on the daily! Funny, Africa is the cradle of civilization but when is the last time a white person said my ancestors are African? And you seem gleeful to make white people your ancestor, why? Its okay to be Black! We had our language taken and out culture and some of our spirit but we are still here and we not finished yet!
@Ifa-El Akbar
So not true 98% of Blacks who had ancestor’s that were dropped in THIS country have a mixed background. Only 17% of Blacks captured as a result of the slave trade were brought to the United States, with the majority dropped in the West Indies, and South America. However, prior to the development of chattel slavery there was indentured servitude in which intermingling happened.
During slavery many black women were raped, however history also shows that there were MANY interracial relationships that happened. This is the history of this country, and running to Canada does not negate the fact you have a ancestor of a different it just means that they ran to Canada seeking freedom.
I agree with Morgan. Plus he doesn’t have blood from slaves running thru his veins!! When we have a descendant of a slave as president that will be OUR first president!!
Are you saying that two native Black African parents whose son is born in the U.S., and elected president of the U.S. would not be considered an African American president just because his parents weren’t descendants of slaves? Think this through logically, based on your proposition, before you answer the question.
biggwill59,
he does not have blood from slaves running through his blood….
meant to say biggwill 59 said it correctly, “he does not have blood from slaves running through his veins
I once thought the same thing about Obama, but now a think it’s a matter of political experience that he lacks, if he was a veteran in the political game or if he was a extension of the civil right’s movement he could do more to meet the Black agenda….h**l all Black American are interracial, we just may not have another race mixture more recent as Obama.
Morgan Freeman even thought ” that he himself was part Native American Indian.
From what I have read about out President he does not have any African American blood in his body. His mother was white and his father was from either Africa on one of the Arab countries. Someone tell me if I am right?
Come on now Morgan!!! We are talking about the United States, right? Wikipedia does reference the “One drop rule” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
The terms “mixed race and biracial”, in most of these fifty states still lands you in the same drawer as African American, Black and Negro. Being black myself, born and raised in New Orleans, I’ve heard most of the arguments from those considering themselves Mulatto and different degrees of the “Roon” family, e.g. Octo, Quad, Quint and macaroon (Hahaha).
Seriously, when applying for a bank loan, an apartment in certain areas or opening accounts in some stores, it became obvious that degrees of blackness did not matter. You were still considered non-white and was treated the same as the darkest negro in town.
I agree with Morgan Freeman. Also having been raised by whites his world view is likely Eurocentric. Other than through his black wife, President Obama probably feels little connection to the African American community which is why he seems comfortable disrespecting us. The irony is that he gets away with it because of his black skin.
@Loveyourself
Are you serious, I mean you can’t be. He is an African – American. In fact he is the only person I bet on this forum that can TRULY check this box and it would apply. If you for one moment believe in your mind that HE a Black man growing up in Hawaii ever thought for a moment that he was not black then I truly feel sad for you. And for Morgan Freeman and individual with a questionable moral compass to make such a statement is ridiculous. Like if you have nothing better to say then PLEASE say NOTHING
He’s not the first Black President he’s the first Bi-racial President. And that’s the truth.
Cortez, what racial epithet would you use to call a biracial person of black and white mix? What racial epithet would the majority of white people use? I know many Hispanics of Carribean descent, particularly, lighter skin individuals, like to consider themselves white or mixed if their skin tone is lighter than carmel brown. Most will skirt uncomfortably around the issue of their African ancestry. Lastly, how do you describe a biracial mix of Asian and African American, East Indian and African American, Native Indian and African American. Maybe Egyptians are biracial since they as diverse as Hispanics.
PitBull & Cortez
These are all Ethinc groups that have derived from Africa. Individuals who are of Hispanic descent who are from Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Cuba and so on are of African descent. In fact like those from the Carribean they have a more direct link to Africa than most blacks in the U.S. because there was less racial mixing. The only thing that differs is that they were colonized by Spain and they speak the language of their oppressor. Native American’s, East Indians, ancestor’s are all from Africa.
Thank You LoisLane you are the only one on here thats right.
I agree. Lois is making the most sense. I am so so glad to know that color is the covering only. The paint on the house is not the house. The beautiful color of the flower is not the flower. All color is beautiful but it is not essence. It has no power. It is not personality. IT IS NOT THE PERSON. It is not who I am. I’m of a higher glory. I am the image and likeness of my Creator. The Creator is spirit, no color. His spirit is all power and all love. And it doesn’t get any better than that. I feel for so many who haven’t yet seen the Light. You and I are better than color people. The so-called “white” family member has a pathology i.e., racism. He is diseased by an inborn selfishness, hatred and bigotry. So our brother a la white cannot define you. Let God do that is my wisdom for you. The “whites”, NOT ALL, need a healing that only the Creator can grant one. The disease can come to all of us unless we ask the Creator for His love to prevent it from contaminating us. God bless to all.
I have observed Obama. He definitely takes something from the African American world. He has been connected to the community through his church, wife, and his color. Yes, he has a white mother. That’s true. Yes, he’s biracial. To many Americans, he is a black man. Yes, some see him as biracial, but plenty see him as black. So Morgan Freeman is not completely correct. I do see Obama as biracial, but his father was black, and blackness is part of Obama, so I would say, in a way, he is America’s first black president. Twenty years ago, Morgan Freeman wouldn’t have called him biracial. That’s more of a new idea as America has become more mixed and racial boundaries are becoming more open and blurred.
my skin is Copper Toned Brown not Black, so im Copper Toned Brown not Black.
100 %
he is biracial…not black….but is our brother
If you are not a full blooded African, you are mixed race…..all of us are mixed with other races
what a waste of such a talented actors ability to speak.
…and Mulatto is a pejorative word these days, for some of us Mixed-race people, as much as the “N” word. Please review its origins and hopefully we’ll all stop using it!!
Mulatto to the rest of the world is quite definitive and accepted.
@Bravagirl
I am always interested in those individuals who INSIST upon being of mixed race like it some badge of honor Like it’s a special group or class. When the majority of blacks who ancestor’s were born in this country are of mix ancestry The only reason why it has if it has taken on a a pejorative context is it’s association with slavery. However the word it’self should not be associated with the term n****r. The issue with blacks in this country is that they were conditioned to believe that being EVERYTHING other than black is better
So you have artists like Beyonce who is now identify with being black, native american & frence.. really french is a language and native american’s are BLACK…
President Obama is not the first mixed-race president either. President A. Lincoln was of mixed ancestry. His mother was Indian.
Didn’t you ever wonder about that Afro-like kinky hair? I’m not making fun of President Lincoln. I like Lincoln and Obama. So there! Let Anderson Cooper do the research. I love it!
I think from a pure point of view, MF is right. But, from a shortsighted point of view, from which most people view things, Barack Obama is black.
All humans are of African ancestry. About 60,000 years ago, some Africans started leaving N.E. Africa, because of some calamity of nature. However to get to the issue, Obama is not a Black president. With a White parent, he could also be considered white.
It is true that this historically racist country considers a person with a minor degree of recent African ancestry to be black, because with the advent of color prejudice a few hundred years ago, the white supremacist rulers, wanted a large slave population, and also, sought ways to keep poor whites and their exploited victims divided, to prevent their unity against their rulers.
This is silly. Black, white, mixed race. What matters more to me is that our president is one of the rare humane President’s we’ve known.
Exactly when was the last time obama tried to, or for that matter had to hail a cab?
If he was not a public figure and he was walking down the street; you would treat him like any other Black man…A face in the crowd and his mother would not even be an issue; He could not have passed himself of as a White man like my Grandmother did in the 20s 30s 40s and 50s and the only way anyone would know that he was mixed is if he told you which is what was told to you when he first ran. I see me in him and when I look in the mirror I see Black.
Ask the racist Tea party and conservatives whether he’s Black. He defines himself as Black and chose a beautiful Black women to be by his side. He’s raising beautiful intelligent Black daughters. That’s Black enough for me.
Really like this!
Morgan, from performing in movies such as Glory, Amistad, Lean on Me and other Afrocentric pieces, you know or should know that any percentage of black blood entitles one to the privilege of being labeled “BLACK”!
To continue: It does not matter what party wins, or candidate, the rulers of “The United States of Criminal Insanity” are not going to relinquish their rule, or make significant concessions to the masses, because of a lost election. They will bring out the police, national guard, and all of the military if needed to maintain their rule. In 2008, the Republicans had two “Idiots” representing the capitalists, and the Democrats had two “political prostitutes” to represent the capitalist rulers. No ruling class in history has given up power because of losing an election, because of prayers, marches or any thing similar. I do not and have never advocated violence, but the truth of history is that is how this government came into existence. Obama is a hypocritical “Pacifier” con man.
Morgan, who gives a rat’s behind that his mother was White? It is how he perceives himself that makes the difference. Johnny Otis was White but he viewed himself as, and was accepted as, Black. Besides, do you accept that “One Drop BS”? If so, do you not think that any of the previous presidents had any Black blood in them?
Come on Morgan, get real!
u guys keep talking about all black people are multiracial. if that is the case then all white people are 2. blacks just love to say how mixed they are…and not looking at the obvious african blood. i thought morgan meant that there were other black presidents before barack hussein who had black blood. prezzies like abe lincoln and hardy. h**l, even the 1st roosevelt is though to have african blood. also, i thought morgan was referring to the fact that in the hemisphere we had black prezzies in columbia, haiti, venezuela and other regional places from way back in the 18th and 19th centuries. the phenomenon of ‘first black’ is not an american one. haiti had a first black in 1795, so did columbia and venezuela. jamaica, tanzania, nigeria, etc. had real black presidents before usa. and barack swings it both ways when he wants to.
and remember people, enslavement of africans happened all over the americas, from canada to argentina. so americans do not have that monoploy. leave barack alone. at least he married a sister, unlike some of those ‘full-bloodied’ black men who still run after white meat.
and stop promoting that multiracial c**p. next time the police stops u, just tell them u are multiracial!
That comment was stupid
…you are a confused individual. You think that your comment shows that you are comfortable in your skin, yet you have no idea of what it means to be “Black” in this nation (not continent) America.
You know what, that’s what I am saying..it really don’t matter. We are all are of mixed race. I don’t promote my multicultural background but I know a lot of us do for some reason…However, you are definitely correct that they need to leave President Obama alone and just concentrate of letting him do his job..
TONY WAS RIGHT ONE DROP YOUR BLACK , EISENHOWER KNEW THAT. THAT’S WHY HE TOLD HIS BLACK FAMILY IF THEY SAY ANY THING ABOUT HIM BEING BLACK THEY WILL BE ERASED MY CLASS MATE IS POINT 3 PERCENT AND SHE THINKS THAT SHES WHITE EVEN MY TEACHER WHO IS WHITE TOLD HER IF YOU HAVE A DROP OF BLACK BLOOD IN YOU YOU’RE BLACK.
I have been a candidate for public office nine times, but only to utilize it as an opportunity to oppose the system, and both of their parties. I am both a historian, and a political scientist, in addition to over 50 years of documented activity on behalf of any and all people that are victims of discrimination, exploitation, racism, sexism, poverty, anything else that the masses have suffered from from the founding of settled societies and civilizations 8 -10 thousand years ago. Enter: http://vimeo.com/1861 1069, and I can be viewed on William Buckley’s show in 1968, under my birth name of Paul Boutelle (1934 – 1979), when I became Kwame Somburu.
If what Morgan Freeman said is true, That President Obama is not the first black president, then there will “NEVER” be a black president, because virtually all black Americans are mixed with another race. (See other comments above for the true meaning of Black(African) American)
What is needed is a working class based movement that puts the collective decision making process over following individuals, and is in year round opposition to the total capitalist system. If this was prior to the Civil War, how many of you would want the system of slavery totally ended, vs. how many would want reforms. I view capitalism the same way. There is not a single person in the world, that can win a political debate with me or my many national/international co-thinkers. I can be contacted at: scientificsocialist@gmail.com
President Obama is the first “BLACK” President and I will stand by that. Most Black Americans are of mixed race in this country. But, if he were not President and walked down the street in Beverly Hills, CA with a Hoodie on, it would not surprise me one bit as to how fast the Beverly Hills Police would be there ready to draw guns on him. So, yes, I believe he is our first Black President. All I can say is may God keep him..
That’s why our a***s can’t get anywhere, because of dumb sh@#! like this, to the white world he’s a black man! We’re basically the only ones questioning his blackness, I’m sorry I haven’t heard him called a honky yet, n****r ohhh yeah. Let your vote stay at home or for Romney, you’ll find out what we’re all considered. Drop this B. S!
I agree Kmad
Amen!
He looks Black to me…and he is beautiful!
Yes he is..I hope that God will grant him another term in office because if he doesn’t, we are in big trouble.
I Agree!
Perplexed, you said it. He’s black enough for me. In a few generations it is not going to matter. Those whose only wealth is their white skin better cling tight to it because it’s vault is dwindling.
I find it very strange indeed, that today, anyone would question what someone wants to call themselves. Think about what would be said if he called himself, White. The President is as Black as anyone in our society that calls themselves Black. For those that don’t live in Chicago, when he is here, it is as plain as day. No questions about it. But here is the thing. The Republican Party has stood in the way of EVERYTHING that the President has tried to do. And African Americans have now feed into the c**p that he hasn’t done enough for Black people. Well, let’s try it the other way. What specifically has the President done to hurt Black people? And what has the Republican Party done to hurt Black people? For that matter, there are people in the Democratic Party that has not tried to help the President. The idea is that they want him to fail. And this racial issue is just all a part of that plan. Morgan Freeman can say whatever he wants, but there is no way that I will feed into that c**p. Strange that the President is being held more accountable than your senator or house member or mayor or governor. They get a pass. Do you realize that not one of the 100 senators in the country is Black? Do you realize that all of the house members are elected from only Black or Hispanic or American Indian areas and not a Black person over a White district? And someone like Freeman has the nerve to attack the President by saying apparently that he is not Black enough. What’s the old saying, “Negro please.”
Barack says he is a black man. He does not negate his mother but he knows that black dominates.
His father African + His Mother American = An African American President.
Barack is the true African American President.
Perfectly said. Many, if not most of us American “black” folks like for others to call us African American….well, there you have it. Barack Obama, the first African American President for real! I am so sick of Americans of all colors, keeping this divisive BS called “race” alive in this nation. As far as I am concerned, Morgan is no better than those racist republicans trying to ruin this President at every turn.
Unfortunately,I am not Surprised being that it is Morgan Freeman. However, I am concerned that someone asked him this question.Since when did he become an authoritative source of information on racial matters?
He is black as much as he is white. Just because he looks black you could also call him a white president. It would not make sense though because Mr. Freeman is right, Obama is bi-racial, you don’t get to pick one and ignore the other. Whatever he or we want to call him, he is Mr. President and still has my respect.
I had respect for Morgan, until now, he sounds like a hater. Everybodys on this earth, this age is mixed, you are too Morgan. Oboma is the first black President, until the past come clean and say me too, and that is not going to happen. These things set us apart from others, our voice, stand, walk, hair, lips, structure, and this list can go on. Quit trying to seperate blacks.
Here we go again. He is the 1st black President, OK?
Response to professorjawn:
I have found many of Morgan’s quips to be very obtuse. Obama is not black…… I mean, what are you all thinking? really, ANYONE in the real world knows how individuals in the real world are characterised. By this extrapolation is Tiger Woods really CABLINASIAN? his dad is black by MF’s rules! Is he bi-racial.. of course he is… but he IS BLACK PEOPLE…As a West-Indian, maybe Obama is the first black man of this stature without a chip on his shoulder and THIS baffles Black Americans… they cant wrap their minds around this. Please note that American slave descendants do not have the monopoly on blackness.. its arrogant and ignorant and Im beginning to feel MF IS losing it.
Sometimes if you take an argument too far it becomes its’ own counter-argument. Fundamentalists are their own worst enemies.
President Obama has alot of melanin in his skin. He looks black to me. But I think it is more important to respect how President Obama identifies himself. I am sure, though, he embraces both his Black African and White American heritage. He named his first book, “Dreams of My Father” and highly speaks of his heritage. What I would like to know is Morgan Freeman’s reason for raising the issue.
Morgan is correct, Barack Obama is the 1st Mulatto President of the USA.
Being Black is a Political Choice he made.
And that is his right and ok with me.
Response to professorjawn:
If ancestry is going to be used as an argument, who are the true ancestors to the White, the Yellow, the Red, the pink and any other shade i may have overlooked?
If your honest answer doesnt have African something in it… then ….well….. your ignorant homez.
As far as i’m concerned Obama is black nuff said.
Most people commenting as is the case with most issues have opinions but not experience. Being a biracial male I can tell you experientially that means you are BLACK. I can still recall vividly my white mother (blue eyes and red hair) looking me in the eye as a small child telling me to never forget that I am a black man. Society made certain I learned the lesson and my own conscience bears witness to it each day of my life. Our President is a black man with a white mama
Interesting
Obama’s not Black, he doesn’t think Black, he does what white people tell him that’s why he isn’t doing anything for Black America, he’s done more for the Jews and the Mexicans then he’s done for us! He needs us to get re-elected that’s all. He’d probubly have a fit if his daughter’s even dated a Black Man, there’s no doubt about it, he’s a turncoat!
truth teller
you said it……i can tell you what good things he has blessed the gays with……..(stay in the military and being able to get married)….i can tell the good things he’s blessed the latino’s……(jobs, loans using our tax money for illegals to buy homes and start business…….he’s passed laws so the illegals can stay and work in the u.s. without being citizens, as he said it “it’s the right things to do”)……i can tell you how he’s blessed the white women. (he’s apologize to the white women after rush limbaugh called her a name……he uses white women faces to help pass is his obamacare……
now can anyone tell me what he as done for the black woman or the black community besides asking for donations for his reelection. How has he blessed us…..(no jobs, called us lazy and good for nothing)….. tell me what he has done for us so i can
change my view of him……
You sound so uneducated. That is the problem with some of you. You cannot think for yourself and cannot do anything for yourself. You are waiting for someone do do something for you. Do you want the President to hold your hand and take you to school to get some education or open the gates of prison and let the criminals out?
WELL I GUESS WE WILL BE WAITING A LONG TIME MY BROTHER, THERE IS NO BLACK RACE(WOW) JUST SOMETHING JAMES BROWN MADE A SONG ABOUT”SAY IT LOUD” MR PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS CHANGE HOW WE VIEW OUR SELFS FOR EVERY…OUR YOUNG MEN CAN BE MORE THEN MOVIE STARS-FOOTBALL PLAYERS…YES THEY CAN SEE WITH THERE OWN EYES THAT THEY TOO CAN BE MORE AND DO MORE …LETS STAY TOGETHER PEOPLE…LOVING YOU FOREVER
WELL I GUESS WE WILL BE WAITING A LONG TIME MY BROTHER, THERE IS NO BLACK RACE(WOW) JUST SOMETHING JAMES BROWN MADE A SONG ABOUT”SAY IT LOUD” MR PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS CHANGE HOW WE VIEW OUR SELFS FOR EVERY…OUR YOUNG MEN CAN BE MORE THEN MOVIE STARS-FOOTBALL PLAYERS…YES THEY CAN SEE WITH THERE OWN EYES THAT THEY TOO CAN BE MORE AND DO MORE …LETS STAY TOGETHER PEOPLE…LOVING YOU FOREVER
the war in Iraq, Afganistan and killing Bin Laden are not in the interest of African – americans
Barack Obama is the 6th black president of the US, there were 5 before him….and they all were mixed…check your facts people.
And while you’re in the “FACT” checking mode, check out all that this great President has done so far. Please go on-line and key in “Signed legislation by President Barack Obama”. It will blow your mind all the Bills he has signed. We’re talking nonsense and this Brother is signing into power for you and me. What’s sad is that you don’t know it. Do your homework people. That will help our conversation. Too much talk without reading the facts.
So I’ve often said that the hope for our society is intermarriage. I am of Jewish heritage and when my sister married a man of a German background my grandfather who was gassed during WWI wanted to throw him down the steps. Once the grandchildren were born my grandfather embraced them with the joy that any grandparent would. We will reconcile our biases once our children and grandchildren are part of a multicultural landscape.
Saying that the President is black is one of most racist thing anyone can say whether you are black or white. Bi-Racial YES. Black NO. When the “forefathers” wanted to seperate the races into different catagorie they decided that anyone who was not 100% caucasion they would be labled as the race that was other. If i remember my biology 101, a child gets half of it’s genes from each parent.
IF HE WANT TO CALL HIMSELF BLACK SO BE IT, IF HE DIDNT SOME OF YOU WOULD SAY HE IS PASSING, AND AS FAR AS NOT DOING ANYTHING FOR BLACK PEOPLE NOT TRUE, BUT BLACK PEOPLE DID NOT PUT HIM IN OFFICE, HE IS PRESIDENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE, STOP BEING LIKE A BUSHELL OF CRABS TRYING TO BRING SOMEONE DOWN, AND THERE WERE 5 BLACK PRESIDENT ALSO MIXED READ YOUR HISTORY, MORGAN NEED TO WORK ON HIS OWN PROBLEMS, REMEBER IF YOU DONT HAVE ANYTHING GOOD TO SAY DONT SAY ANYTHING, BUT WHEN ROMMENY IF HE GETS IN , LETS SEE HOW MUCH SOME OF YOU WILL HAVE TO SAY.
I know plenty of biracial people who say they are BLACK. And that is their personal choice and right to define based on how they feel and see themselves in the world, and how others’ receive them. Obama saying he is Black does not nor can it ever negate his White mother and ancestry. I am sick and tired of the Morgan Friedman’s and Bill Cosby’s of the world who think their fame gives them a license to speak as if what they say weighs in on anything worth hearing. Interesting, old man Morgan should say this now…mmm, close to election time. He needs to stick to his scripted role as an actor and let people define who they are based on their cultural connection and natural affinity. BLACK is not just about skin color so shut up Morgan and go learn to embrace the multiplicity of BLACKNESS!!! YOU DO NOT speak for us. Black people have a right to celebrate Barak Obama as a Black man just as much as Barak Obama has a right to say he is a Black MAN. My grandmother was biracial and I’m as BLACK AS BLACK IS AND PROUD OF THE BLACKNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fact is that as a minority and Black he is the closet thing to someone that is not white and has color. He represents the hope that America can one day completely stop judging by race. Morgan Freeman and his driving Miss Daisy a*s needs to sit down and stop hating.
First Black President before consititution John Hanson
Mr.Morgan what is your point?
@Truth Teller Thank You, I agree with you 100%.Obama isn’t the first Black President, he’s White America first interracial president which has nothing to do with the black race!!!!
…nothing to do with the Black race? You’re delusional and mislead. I’m sorry for you. Let’s break it down. First of all his father is from the MOTHER LAND – AFRICA!!!” Secondly, the first human race began in Africa and over the evolution of humans spreading around the world moved out across the world to which environmental factors such as colder climates, less sun, less heat, living in caves etc., influenced more or less pigmentation (color) differences, hair, eye color, shapes of noses, eyes, lips etc. The Aborigenese people are Black with straight to kinky and curly hair and some of them are blond and red headed and are NOT mixed with European ancestry and yet some have blond hair. What we are looking at and calling different races today are different metamorphical changes due to environment…NOT RACE. There is no such thing as DIFFERENT RACES; there is only ONE RACE and that is the human race. An entire exhibit in Washington, D.C. at the Museum of Natural history on “RACE” was beautifully illustrated in showing the entire science behind it. The original people, as in first world people, never saw themselves as “different races.” They saw themselves as human bretherens and extensions of one another in the human family, trading and sharing the planet with balance. The idea of “Race” was created by Europeans in order to create a political division between themselves and people of color and the mess we have in societies today speaks to that. So if Obama says he’s BLACK, he’s Black! If a Mexican say’s he’s Black, he’s Black, if an Indian say’s he’s Black, he’s Black, if a biracial person says he/she’s BLACK he’s BLACK, he’s human, related to the enitre human family – because all people are ONE with different strands and that first ONE came out of AFRICA. President Bill Clinton spoke about this during his presidency back in the 1980s. ONE LOVE.
It is unfortunate that definition has been convoluted by racist educational system.That is to define people by color which is so asinine,to pallow African people of many different countries from many different clans and tribes to be labeled by color,the same is true of Europeans or other nations. We have been hoodwinked to buy into the the color code system of racism. African people come from Africa therefore they are Africans,Obama is not a Black man he knows his tribe,His mother is European from a nationality. This whole question of Black & White is based on racism. Please it makes no difference if you are the beautiful handsome African man by the name of Morgan Freeman,he has also bought into the definition by the Europeans or Anglos by the racist system. Think! eeducation.
The complexity of color,how brown is brown before it is black. A light skin African American the like of Poppy White of Naacp or Adam Clayton Powell that looks whiye saying I am Black. Why not just say African are you ashamed of being African and they do come in many comlexions. Go to the dictionary see what Black is and what White is one is always superior and the other inferior even tody. We know that Black is beautiful and so is white and any other color. Do not by into the the racist color code system the ethos of discrimination and bigotry.. Kunte Kinte was still African just because the Slave Master beat him does not change his nation or tribe. There was a definite reason that they want us to be define by color. Guess why. Duh.There have bePresidentssuch as Ike that was mixed.as IKE
The first President of America`was an Afrikan by the name of Mr. John Hanson, who passed the reign over to George Washinton.
What utter nonsense. There has not been a strong black leader since MLK Jr. who was our Moses. Being a stiff neck lazy lot we had to wait for Joshua, President Obama , to come. President Obama does not have the baggage of men like Freeman. I would choose President Obama’s blackness than the sorry black men like Freeman who would marry a child he has raised with his wife. He has no credibility.
Literally speaking Morgan is right, the statement made by Tony as aforementioned is true also……I’m old enough to remember white folk that if dying and in need of a blood transfusion in the South would make sure they didn’t get black blood, lol………blood is bloor. But my people have always accepted folk within our race that embraced other persuasions because we use to be that type of people, if the white folk didn’t accept the relationship we did…….so with that, it is quite evident that some white folk haven’t accepted President Obama’s white side, we’ll take his black side, how is that……….be careful of the “Force” it is alive and well in America……and if I can ever get a publisher my book, “A Letter to the Right” will explain it all. Peace Wf3
Morgan Freeman is absolutely right. John Hanson was the first black president and the first president of the United States. He served under the Articles of the Confederation – a precursor to the Constitution.. Actually, George Washington was the 8th president.
There is no such thing as a black race or a white race of people in the human family. This is a made up concept. There are people of many hues all over the planet earth. It’s amazing to see intelligent men and women continuing to perpetuate this false concept throughout the world. Using black and white as a classification of a people, creates a problem that triggers one to be relegated to a position of superior and the other to an inferiority status for the express purpose of political, social and economic control of the planets resources. President Obama is a human being just like any other man. Fighting the black and white game of supremacy is an unsolvable riddle. The people here in America need an economy that works for the people regardless of the color of their skin. peace.
If we each research our DNA; who would be pure “black”? Under these circumstances, if you are still waiting for the 1st African American President it will be a long wait. We are all probably mixed with something; some known, some unknown. The man is black; if he wasn’t, they wouldn’t be so angry that he’s President. Why do we have to prove to one another how black we are? When I was growning up, I wasn’t black enough. My skin is golden brown and i spoke proper english. I never saw anyone white in my family; but I’m pretty confident my great grandmother was with a white slave owner. Does this make me less black? I don’t think so.
There are so many different nations and nationality in Europe and in Africa and Asia. America is both North,South The Caribbean and Mexico. Wake up.I think I have made my point which is not by the definition of European Anglo racist. Some body who understands this please think on the ignorance of the racist color code system that you have been brainwashed to accept.I will debate this with any one.We also need to change the definition in the Webster Dictionary. Bamboozled by the racist. National Association For The Advancement of Colored People. Thank you Dr W.E.B.DuBois who was also mixed a Kreelou type I know He wrote a Book The Soul of Black Folk? Let us get realYou want all Africans to forget their roots. Every country has a nationality. What is yours.Black or white is a profile of racism. Thank you Obama is an African America but that can also be broken down.
He’s probably not the first “mixed race heritage” president either. I am betting at least 1 president has had Native American blood or something, somewhere along the line. Nearly all of us are ‘mixed’.
I’m a multiracial, African American-Latina and Native American ancestry. The decendent of the enslaved, the decendent of the (enslavers) and the original Americans. My birth certificate identifies me as white, the world sees me as I see myself, as an African American. I am proud of my Africanity, because of how I was raised. I also grew up during segregation and attended segregated schools and experienced desegregation. The previous writer is correct that we are a miscegenated population and Pres. Obama Is America’s first African American President. I am proud of him, his intelligence, his tenacity and prowess and all he has done and attempts to do.
Not quite sure if that was suppose to be a compliment Mr. Freeman…or a slap.
Is his color suppose to make the differance, or is it the principles that he stands on ?
Man, I hope folks will have the sense to vote for the right reasons, you included Freeman.
Why do Americans make race such a issue in 2012. The whole world knows that white Americans are not superior to any creature on earth. So why are other people still wasting good breath on this impossible subject. You are what people see when you appear. You can think anything you wish because it doesn’t really matter. No one has a position that really matters. NO ONE. YOUR POSITION IS NEVER GOING TO SAVE YOU FROM h**l. LIVE YOUR LIFE THE WAY YOU CHOOSE.HEAVEN OR h**l AND NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE. FRIGHTENING ISN’T IT.
obama is as black as any other black man. he is the best president of my life time.i love what Professor Kelmer Muhammad wrote. that is the truth.
being “Black’ is cultural, consciousness . He has demonstrated that he does not support our interests. especially our poor,deaf to the unjustly incarcerated, pro homosexualitization of our people,and all for institutionalization of late(read baby torture and killing)term abortion—genocidal
all this in a increasingly propaganda filled media field, filled w/ trolls,questionable “statistical” claims, aND FEWER AND FEWER PLACE FOR SIMPLE EMPLOYMENT for ordinary folk. more slave labor elsewhere …perverse.
but he put on a show, didn’t he. made the right connections, appeared w/the right people,married into the family,etc
This article is the biggest waste of time. Who cares. All Blacks have White ancestry. Obama’s represents it via a more immediate generation. This isn’t even news and I don’t know what the heck Freeman is talking about. He should know better.
Morgan is going through a midlife crisis.Wife got paid BIG BUCKS as she should have after all the years she loved and supported him.Got hooked up with the white girl,rumors of him and the niece.Please find another great roll for him,he’s bored and is pleased to be interviewed and not responding as eloquently as usual.My personal opinion.
Boyce,
I am sooo sick of your sek-hating being projected on President by any many means necessary. As soon as you and your stooges elect Mitt, I will unscribe to this BS. You have stated that President Obama had to earn your vote. Did you wake up on 01/20/09? If not, what did the white boys do to earn your vote? Eric Waltree is correct. You are no more than a pimp for Rush, Beck and Bill O’rieley because you do their work for them. Do I agree with everything that the President has done? No!! But I am not expecting him to save this Country in four years. I will not demean Uncle Tom by calling you one but so called intellectuals like you make me sick because I don’t drink anyone’s kool-aid, including yours. And, when history is written, President, not you, will be rememberd as the first Black President. So, you, Cornel and Tavis can continue your self-hate rants but those who think for themselves ‘ain’t’ buying it. To call yourself a scholar makes you a legend in your own mind! Enough Already!!
Some people say the stupidest things and as I read this blog’s comments by idiots, I do nothing but laugh so hard that I cry. Mr. President, with ALL respect, is the first Black President and just because he is multicultural, does not mean he is not black. He is fully black and a citizen. To make matters worse, What’s his name Morgan, needs to be quiet with his highly nasty and immoral self. He has no room to talk about anything. He needs to address why he is sleeping with his step daughters.
You bunch of silly crab fools. If you don’t like him, don’t vote for him. Put the white man back in the (WHITE) house and they will see to it that you will never get YOUR FOOT IN THERE AGAIN. Keep fighting amonst yourselves. That is what we are best known for. How many of you talked about any of the white presidents like this. Weather he is black minded or not, mixed does not matter. You have black people who will do you in -in a heart beat. But, you will never see that. If he thought like you, he never would have made it this far. He needs to think like them to win this war. Now he has also you to content with as well as the tea party. If he knows how they thinks, he has something to work with. , what different does it make If his mother was white. He can not loose his blackness because the world will not let him forget it… Try to stick together as a race. The biggest wepon the white people have is you. To know that all they have to do is plant a little hate in you for your own and you will take off.
I am taking you up on this because you are so right, and as a young person who just finished undergrad college and starts grad school this fall, I am looking at the world I have inherited and am abhorred. I hate to say it, but there are a lot of whites out there who are not hateful and don’t see race (color blind) that will treat you better then blacks….smh
Best comment on the subject. IMHO.
grandmother, i’m also a grandmother age, are you saying not to expect anything from obama because he is a black president and we should just “all get along”. why can’t we disagree with his policies. you said we don’t talk about white presidents like this, that’s not true, but we expect that from a white president, but when a white president pass laws for whites, ( we as blacks falls under the umbrella and benefit from that law) i don’t see the same with obama) he’s made it this far by being that politician, he learned through his upbringing how to use people for his advantage, look at community work in chicago, his pastor of 20 years and he married a very intelligent women. but he will drop a friend in a moments notice if that friends prevents him from moving forward……look at the pastor…. grandmother to grandmother age, we should expect at least from obama what he gives to other groups of people. tell me what he has done for black women or the black community since he’s been in office. grandmother read up above where i listed what he has done for other groups of people, then let me know where he has benefited you as a black women. (when i read your response… i must be missing out on the good things he’s done for you)
Tell these folk under the dellusion of Obamania again what he has not done in the area of good for Black people and what he has done in the area of good for other folks.
I love your post thank you
You list all the things that the President has done for all the other groups, but what about all thethings that the President has tried to do but was stopped by the congress? You think that this President has done nothing for black people, just wait until the white republicans get back in office. They don’t care about the working class people at all. Morgan Freeman has nothing to worry about. He does not care who gets in office because he has millions. Why are we always putting down our own kind? This is one reason why we as a race are still so far behind other races in this country. The whites, jews, indians, people from china and japan stick together, but we don’t. We still have the slave mentality that white slave owners brainwashed us with 250 years ago. The light negroes could be inside the house but the darker skin negroes worked in the fields. Devide and conquer. Please dont let them devide us now this election is so important!!!!
@dp. All do respect- You have to do your homework. Check out all the legislation he signed so far in office. Go on line and key i ” Signed legislation/bills signed by President Obama.” It will totally open your eyes.
I agree with ylg. This is the best comment on the subject. Thank you Grandmother. Thank you Thank you Thank you
The irony: “One drop of Negro blood makes one ‘Black,’ yet a million drops of ‘White’ blood doesn’t make one ‘White.’ Whose blood is more powerful? Most “Whites” are “Black,” and it’s a mixed-up world. See God about that.
Well Morgan Freeman’s words can be deemed CORRECT or FACTUAL, there is no need for anyone to take offense. While President Obama considers himself BLACK, he is STILL VERY MUCH BI RACIAL. Its just the African American Community has long been embracing, understanding and eager to claim those who resemble them in skin tone and ancestry. I have always said President Obama is the first BI RACIAL PRESIDENT, because I think its an honor for him to honor his both his parents. FACE IT…. A WHITE WOMAN RAISED UP A GOOD BLACK MAN… ha ha ha. Trust when the next President comes along with TWO BLACK PARENTS… people will begin making that distinction much more clear.
Morgan is right however from a white perspective he is percieved as a black man and non-white. Congress sees a black man and that is how they are treating him. Having meeting on the day of his swearing in to insure they block all he does. Believe me he is percieved as a black man so he is the first Black President!!!
People tend to misjudge and draw flawed opinions about everything. The thing Mr. Freeman just stated was not an opinion it was the truth. It’s too bad that this country is filled with blind people. The race issue is one of many tools which are used purposely to divide and alienate people, but that isn’t all we are strapped with. Our whole thought processes have been corrupted from the moment we begin consciousness. To make it short. Nothing is as it seems, and we are lied to on a regular basis. Yet most are unable to comprehend, and most are unable to understand the frightening dilemma which we are constantly conned into living with. Some know this, but most don’t know nor care. In the long run it doesn’t make any difference who or what is pretending to lead this country, because it (the country) is not what we are led to believe it is! Blacks should know better, but alas how can they? When they are too busy either trying to copy whites or trying to stay alive to enjoy their ignorance.
In that case, Mr. Freeman, You are not African Americans; we are all mixed-raced unless you are a full blooded African. You are not and 99.9% of us are mixed-raced with so many different races. Yet we call ourselves African Americans not mixed-raced American.
In that case, Mr. Freeman, you are not African American; we are all mixed-raced unless you are a full blooded African. You are not and 99.9% of us are mixed-raced with so many different races. Yet we call ourselves African Americans not mixed-raced American.
Why is Morgan Freeman, the same dude who said that Black History Month is “ridiculous,” raising this issue?
[The actor says he believes the labels "black" and "white" are an obstacle to beating racism. "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”]—AP 12/2005
Although Barack Obama defines himself as an Afrikan American he consistently uses self-denigrating terms when asked about his ancestry.
[When asked about his background, which includes a black father and white mother, Obama said of African-Americans: "We are sort of a mongrel people." "I mean we're all kinds of mixed up," Obama said. "That's actually true of white people as well, but we just know more about it." The president's remarks were directed at the roots of all Americans. The definition of mongrel as an adjective is defined as "of mixed breed, nature, or origin," according to dictionary.com]
I actually have not heard anyone use the term “mongrel” to describe Afrikan Americans other than white supremacists. He also describes himself as a mutt.
“There are a number of breeds that are hypoallergenic, but on the other hand our preference is to get a shelter dog, but obviously, a lot of the shelter dogs are mutts like me,” Obama said.
My grandmother was raped by a white man when she was 13. Her mother, my great-grandmother, got scared and fled South Carolina. My mother’s experience was, and my experience is the Black experience in America. We would never describe ourselves using such derogatory terms. Barack Obama, growing up in Hawaii, Indonesia, and with white grandparents in Kansas, does not have that experience, which is what Shirley Sherrod tried to explain to him.
“He is not someone who has experienced what I have experienced through life, being a person of color. He might need to hear some of what I could say to him. I don’t know if that would guide him in a way that he deals with others like me, but I at least would like to have the opportunity to talk to him about it.”
Shirley Sherrod’s father was murdered; shot in the back, by a white man in 1965 in Baker County, Ga. Sherrod was 17 at the time. As per usual the all-white grand jury convened to investigate the murder refused to indict the white man.
Obama’s experience does not make him any less Afrikan American, but I believe that it definitely affects his worldview and consciousness, or his lack of it.
makheru bradley…
you said what i’ve been wanting to say and you said it correctly and with understanding, tks
Imagine if everything. I mean everything! That we have been taught or dis-taught about this nation and it’s leaders is as false and (con)concocted as most things we are hearing and experiencing today! Think about everything we have read and experienced about our ancestors, the native Americans, the Mexicans, the colonized nations around the world. Think about all of the lying and scheming it took to conquer whole nations and bring down the leaders of those nations. Think about the nations that are being sucked dry today and the lies that are being kept from the people as they (we) are being robbed by the ancestors of our ancestor’s slave masters. Their history is the lie they tell their own people it’s the lie they tell the whole world. Do you really want to continue to believe such madness? Are you mad? Of course you are as well you should be having been brought up under a veil of deceit, theft, mistreatment, abuses on many levels and genocide as the basis of this existence. Know that everything is build on lies and deception and what we experience today is part of that pyramid of lies and deception. Now do you really believe anything they say or do? Do you believe a “President” is really what they use to rule this country and annihilate most of the world’s people?
Do you believe that the ruthless people who rule this nation would allow a “black” man to represent them if they didn’t have a reason to do so?
Whatever the case, we are all such fools and it’s sad because we have been born this way and conditioned this way, and most us will never be able to see things as they really are! Not anyone in this country can see things as they really are. None but a ruthless committed few!
What people need to realize is that Obama is just the President that happens to be “colored”. If people would just google this question, “Who is the first black President?”, then you will see for yourself. Once we as americans get the right answer, then we will all be okay and well informed.
Because we were never taught, WE NEED TO DO OUR OWN RESEARCH, before we go off and start saying things that is hiding the truth and confusing the masses.
Who cares what Morgan Freeman thinks! Morgan Freeman has no credibility as an actor or human being!
I agree with MF.He is not black.He is biracial..his mother is white as snow and his father is A african.We ARE NOT EITHER! Whites and Africans are RACIST, so stop thinking that either side loves you!
Mr freeman needs to stick to acting & go back to LACC &
Take a course in moral ethics dealing with step-grand daughter
i****t issues. Grandmother is right on. What difference does it
Make. We are all mixed whites included. Listen; there was a
Gene found in an east African woman that has also been
Found in people in every continent. We are all related so all
You black haters STFU
As a man who lived during the civil rights period, Morgan is too old to bring up such a stupid non-issue. Bi-racial is not a race. He obviously doesn’t like President Obama and is trying in some way to distance African American supporters from him. Obama can’t run on black issues. Remember he’s working with a predominantly white Congress. Do you really think he would ever get a special “colored folks’ unemployment bill passed by those racists. Let’s get real! What makes you think Congress would support any legislation he might propose for addressing black unemployment. Maybe he should do it just to prove that it wouldn’t work. Then y’all anti-Obamaites would have something else to say.
Morgan, I think we should start lining up all successful black and white mixed individuals and use your category ‘mixed races’ to identify them regardless of what they consider themselves to be.
It seems that we are looking for a hook to hang our hat on. It is a fact that the president and a lot of us have Semitic roots as well as evidence of Hamitic genes. He just happens to know his origins. The Chinese will tell you that their first leader was a black man. It is historical fact. As Silvio Berlusconi said, referring to President Obama, “He has a nice tan.” Wizard G you do not have to be ruthless to know the devices of The god of this world. He invented lies and is the father of it. Would you expect anything less from the governments that operate under his influence. He is also called The Destroyer. There is a change in administration coming that will shock even the ruthless committed few who think that they know everything. Before war there is always a leap forward in military technology. Financing this is as simple as inducing austerity and sucking the funds out of the pockets of the poor. The same game by another name. There is nothing new under the sun.
He is mixed, not black or white, he is mixed and thats a fact!
http://www.blackconvo.com
@blackconvo
Honestly, our issue as blacks in America actually starts with our youth. President Oboma is only one individual whatever race he claims supports or is classified as. If we want a turn around in our future of Black America we need all of our so called black leafers scholars etc. To stop letting hip hop dictate life to our children because whether you agree wit me or not our kids are dropping out of schools at an alarming ratr to the streets & strips clubs cause of what they’re hearing from there favorite recording artist….so if those of you who claim to have it so on the ball or consider your selves to be so intelligent can’t recognise the fact that we are loosing our children by the age of 13 & figure how to bridge that gap we will forever will continue to spin our wheels cause history has taught us that they always pick us off individualy but as a one unit recognizable force all in the same accord on the same page has to be respected & heard..
Morgan told nothing but the truth what does Obama do for blacks not a d**n thing. Ppl get real the truth hurts.
What many of this and the last generation doesn’t understand is that when Obama was born and grew up there wasn’t any such thing as “biracial” in this country. He grew up when “one drop of black blood made you black.” So, he grew up when he and many, many other so-called “mixed” blacks were being called only black, because that was the only race you would be considered as then.
So if he was born and raised under the label black, and I’m sure he was, that was ….and still is, the race he knows himself to be. His mother, like Halle Berry’s mother, probably told him this at that time in U.S. history.
I’m becoming more and more displeased with old mississippi-born Morgan Freeman. He is becomming (or probably always has been) ole massa’s right-hand boy. Those good ole boy’s can get him to say anything that benefit’s them these day’s. He’s narrating on TV everything from the ancient Egyptians being white to there’s no God evolution scripts for them these days. And it’s hard to believe an old mississippi black man like him really doesn’t believe in God. And as one blogger asked, why after 3 years in office does uncle Morgan just decide to come out now about Obama. Ole massa paying him good money now I reckon..
Attacking Morgan is stupid if you are Black because what Morgan is doing needs to be done. The Black condition in America today is horrible and Obama need to be accountable to show his work or the lack of that work to improve those conditions. So far Obama has shown America Black people can continue to be ignored all the way up to election time and then all you need is a good song and dance show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAYKNX8lg0
We may not like what Mr. Freeman said but he is correct. Also, I have never heard the President refer to himself as “black”, he uses the term African-American and we should too.
The “black” phrase served it’s purpose, now let’s embrace our heritage. I love being referred to as African-American, because I am more than a color.
Obama a Black man? That is almost as silly as another Nobel Peace Prize winner besides Obama with blood on their hands
WE all know that Morgan is thinking under extreme duress these days. Pres. O is our man.
I have to address dp!! We have to do 4 ourselves.
! When those doors are open MOVE! We have black people that own small businesses that can’t get support from from other blacks cause we support the white businesses. You say their products are more affordable, well because as long as we are there we help them keep their prices. The Black business could do the same if they thought they could depend on us. The President made it possible 4 us to open these business but it is up to us 2c that they are successful. He doesn’t block our blessings we do!! I have ran into dumb a black people at my job cause they are scared of the white people. I say if God has put me here God will keep me here. Don’t you know if it were up 2 some white people, we would ALL still be slaves. We have 2 believe that President is opening the doors (I would not know what I would do w/out the housing programs) we just think he is doing it 4 others cause he don’t call us by name. Just because he don’t say 2 his kids come out & enjoy the festivities do u think he does not include them. I wish I could start a movement so that we can all come 2gether & get out of that “yessa nosar master mentality!!!
Insightful
I can’t see the light in your aurgurment. You see this thing in a vaccuum as if the scales were all in balance.
Here is a wake up call. Blacks dont have much money by which they and venture into a capital market place which is instructed to force them out unless they are filling a nitch by which white American can use that buisness when needed as a gate keeping instrument.
I do not agree with Morgan. Jim crow said if you had 1% of black blood you were black. So,Barack is our first black president.
A Black president would open the gate and let Black love dominate all policy from the start. His or her political gold would be to acheive total parity in all of society for Black people and others of color.
Whether Obama is the first Black president, or mixed race reminds me of health reform: penalty or tax? These absurd distinctions miss major points. With health care reform, people CHOOSE whether to pay the money to the IRS by choosing not to have health insurance. Neither penalty nor tax point out this truth – that it’s a payment people may choose to make if they choose not to have health insurance. Regarding Obama, it’s obvious that he is seen as Black, and that people disregard “mixed race” and it is also clear that he is the offspring of a white American and a man from Kenya – no slave ancestors. Far more important, his position in history is one that will probably result in him having made some changes and surviving for a second term by not alienating the Big Money backers he answers to. What he will do when he’s in that second term – if there is one – is the big mystery.
There are two camps of people in our race.
1st and the ones I love the most are Black people a.k.a. Field folk
2nd are the African Americans a.k.a. House folk
These two different groups point of views can be traced back to slavery but then they went by the names of field n****r and House negro. Obama operates like that hous negro
Mr Freeman has obviously spent too much time with Whites – he is now talking as a House-Negro mouthpiece.
President Obama’s parentage is only relevant in an Institutionally-Racist country like the US in terms of its Black side not its White. The President is not judged by his White parent but by his Black; proven by the fact that President Obama is the only US President whose skin color was an electoral issue. (George Washington’s ownership of 216 slaves while in office was not, you will no doubt recall.)
The only thing that matters to Whites is that President Obama is not White and therefore can be treated as an inferior in their minds. Whites divide the world between White and non-White, not between White, Brown, Yellow, Black and Red – White supremacy is not that taxonomically-sophisticated as exemplified by the KKK not making such distinctions during a lynching.
Mr Freeman is perfectly well aware of this but pretends that his n**i genetic theorizing (mixed-race is a political category, not a genetic one) will help him fight his deep-seated fear of Whites.
President Obama 1st Black to hold this office? Better check out this site for those who believe the hype.
ARK
macquirelatory.com/First%20Black%20President.htm
I have heard enough from black people. We don’t know our value. 60% of white people did’nt vote for Obama. Without the black vote he would’nt be President. We should expect something in return. You plantation n****s don’t get it. Obama has been a failure. You don’t need MF to wake you up. Obama has been a failure…in your face. Keep waiting…the only change coming to black America under the Obamas…more poverty. He saw you all crying on election night…..believe me, you lovers will be in “nervous break down mode” by the time this is over. Even his wife has been silent about issues in our community. Those issues will be addressed only when the Obamas are not in a position to help. Out of office.
Morgan Freeman has issues he had a long going relationship with his granddaughter. And no, not all blacks were slaves though you wouldn’t know it by the way he is treated by white Americans. Many woudn’t vote for him beacuse he is black. Black isn’t about color although there ares ome ignorant folks usually Hispanic who automatically think of darkness when they say black. Obama would not have been treated any differently than any other light brown black man in America. You don’t define black by color alone and we never have just take a look at Adam Clayton Powell and Benjamin Jealous. Like all presidents Obama is not his own man he is instructed about what to do the same as Bush, Clinton and the rest who came before him. The real power is behind the throne not sitting on it.
A “Black” Man, A Moor, John Hanson Was the First President of the United States! 1781-1782 A.D.??? George Washington was really the 8th President of the United States! George Washington was not the first President of the United States. In fact, the first President of the United States was one John Hanson. Don’t go checking the encyclopedia for this guy’s name – he is one of those great men that are lost to history. If you’re extremely lucky, you may actually find a brief mention of his name. The new country was actually formed on March 1, 1781 with the adoption of The Articles of Confederation. This document was actually proposed on June 11, 1776, but not agreed upon by Congress until November 15, 1777. Maryland refused to sign this document until Virginia and New York ceded their western lands (Maryland was afraid that these states would gain too much power in the new government from such large amounts of land). Once the signing took place in 1781, a President was needed to run the country. John Hanson was chosen unanimously by Congress (which included George Washington). In fact, all the other potential candidates refused to run against him, as he was a major player in the revolution and an extremely influential member of Congress. As the first President, Hanson had quite the shoes to fill. No one had ever been President and the role was poorly defined. His actions in office would set precedent for all future Presidents. He took office just as the Revolutionary War ended. Almost immediately, the troops demanded to be paid. As would be expected after any long war, there were no funds to meet the salaries. As a result, the soldiers threatened to overthrow the new government and put Washington on the throne as a monarch. All the members of Congress ran for their lives, leaving Hanson as the only guy left running the government. He somehow managed to calm the troops down and hold the country together. If he had failed, the government would have fallen almost immediately and everyone would have been bowing to King Washington. In fact, Hanson sent 800 pounds of sterling siliver by his brother Samuel Hanson to George Washington to provide the troops with shoes. Hanson, as President, ordered all foreign troops off American soil, as well as the removal of all foreign flags. This was quite the feat, considering the fact that so many European countries had a stake in the United States since the days following Columbus. Hanson established the Great Seal of the United States, which all Presidents have since been required to use on all official documents. President Hanson also established the first Treasury Department, the first Secretary of War, and the first Foreign Affairs Department. Lastly, he declared that the fourth Thursday of every November was to be Thanksgiving Day, which is still true today.
The Articles of Confederation only allowed a President to serve a one year term during any three year period, so Hanson actually accomplished quite a bit in such little time. Six other presidents were elected after him – Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788) – all prior to Washington taking office. So what happened? Why don’t we ever hear about the first seven Presidents of the United States? It’s quite simple – The Articles of Confederation didn’t work well. The individual states had too much power and nothing could be agreed upon. A new doctrine needed to be written – something we know as the Constitution. And that leads us to the end of our story. George Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today. And the first seven Presidents are forgotten in history
Americans may be unique in that many still ascribe to the One Drop theory or belief, but I think what may be continuously overlooked is the fact that personal racial identity extends BEYOND a dusty doctrine called the one-drop rule as well. Some people of mixed bloodlines identify as Black come about from their own personal preferences and experiences. An individual’s self image is much more complex than how many would like to believe.
As I said, though mixedrace people are not their own race. I don’t understand how any biracial person can think that in the first place. TO BE A RACE OF PEOPLE, there needs to be quite a few socio-economic factors in play, and mixedrace people, at least here in the US have none of them except wishful thinking.
the real first black president served 1781 to 1782 his name was JOHN HANSON ….. george washington turned it down at the time of his first nomination check the real history of america
I believe that you are whatever your Father is; Barack Obama is the seed of a “Black African” man. It was brought to my attention many years ago that everything that grows from a particular seed, becomes just that. If you place a Sunflower Seed in my yard, it will become a Sunflower, if I place a Sunflower Seed in your yard, it will become a Sunflower. It doesn’t matter where the seed was grown (Barack Obama) it became a beautiful black man. END OF STORY !!!!
The fact is that mixedrace people of Black heritage are still often regarded as part of their minority grouping, and also often encounter racism because of it. A Biracial person can try to think of themselves as a seperate race, but they’ll soon discover that there is no such thing-the Black community is where unity and cohesion lies. Biracial does not signify any kind of formal racial grouping but merely a term for racial mixture. Black people ARE MIXED AND MIXED PEOPLE ARE BLACK. The roots interlock and intertwine throughout the passages of time and generations. Jeez, if it can be said that a Black person is only someone who is entirely Black in genetics, that would discount nearly everyone from the Black community.
“The only thing that matters to Whites is that President Obama is not White and therefore can be treated as an inferior in their minds. Whites divide the world between White and non-White, not between White, Brown, Yellow, Black and Red – White supremacy is not that taxonomically-sophisticated as exemplified by the KKK not making such distinctions during a lynching.”
All “whites” do not think that way, and many “whites” understand that there is only one actual race on the planet, that being h**o sapiens. We come in different colors.
I believe that Black culture encompasses a diversity of people. Most Black people aren’t purely African, have not been purely African for hundreds of years, and will never be purely African. We Are BLACK AMERICANS and that encompasses Black, White and Native American bloodlines.
If you wish to debate the issue, DiversityInc. has a piece that describes the background on six presidents. Amazon.com has a poster that depicts them-Jefferson, Jackson, Harding, Coolidge,
Eisenhower and Lincoln. It is the one-drop rule that makes this real. Of course, you can reject the one-drop rule. Eventually you will reject the notion of the importance of the separation of humankind into small boxes.
I am sure that Morgan Freeman does understand what he has said. He uses the term mixed-race. The concept of r-a-c-e was discredited by scholars some 100 years ago. It would be great if Freeman became contemporary and not live in the past.
Talking about race and ancestors is always a challenge for all of us. But the truth is that if man originated out of Africa, then every so called “white” person has just as many roots in Africa as black people. The labels we use to describe each other have more to do with socio-political-economic separation than biology/genetics. The real blue bloods are the Africans, our ancestors, and people in the US better wake up soon to this realization before China consumed the riches of our real home–Africa!
I agree with Morgan in that President Obama is a product of mixed heritage, but that is so true for just about 100% of all us, both black and white people, living in the USA.
Some of you have to remember that all black people are not African American. If you came off one of those Southern plantations this still a chance that you are not mixed with nothing but blackness-African slaves. I find it strange that most people still fill that everyone is mixed with something if there were part of the slave trade. The white man was not that good that they could spread their seed everywhere.
You go south and see some of the purple people who are still there. If we were mixed I would like to know with what. My father always told us there is no white blood in his veins. People always let us know how black we were. Had it not been for my father reinforcing his hertiage. We might have thought we were freaks with purple gums. So think about all of the mixed race stuff. All blacks are not.
SO WHAT////…,,,
Fox, this is a GREAT debate for us to have. NO, Pres. Obama is a black man however he should not be classified as the FIRST BLACK US PRESIDENT period! Mixed race perhaps will be more oppropriate for now.
What a silly thing to say Morgan! That sperm carried by Barack’s momma came straight out of Black Africa! You feel me people! BARACK OBAMA IS INDEED THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN PRESIDENT!!
Just about 95% of the populaton of the world is mixed with another race, everybody is of a mixed race, most black folk are mixed with another race, does that not make them black, what is he talking about. Seed is passed on by the male, the male seed in dominant, his father was from nigeria, he is black, whether he wants to be or not. If you want to make a point, please think it out before you speak!
Barack Obama is no more the first black president than was Warren G. Harding, who also possessed both black and white blood. Which, according to some is supposed to make them black because black blood is supposed to be dominant over the bloods of all other races. Black people are the strongest of all races, and the original people of the earth. Which extends far back before that 6,000 years ago couple called Adam and Eve lie in the Bible, who where NOT the first people on the earth. What I am curious about, and would like for Dr. Boyce to find out and tell us, is what Obama’s birth certificate says about his race, if it has it on there. Forget that where he was born business, does the document say anything about his race? Some birth certificates use to long ago, but I don’t know about now. And if it does, I will bet any of you that it does not say B-L-A-C-K . Because the father was not there, and do you really think that his mother and white grandparents would list him as black? — Rev. George Brooks
MORGAN FREEMAN shut the h**l up ,BLACK is Black no matter what you mix it with fool.you child molester you find out who you are and leave grand children alone old punk….
YES AND NO. THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT IS ON THE BACK OF THE TWO DOLLAR BILL IN SESSION WITH THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. LIKE IT OR NOT AND HALF WHITE OR NOT. PRESIDENT OBAMA IS BLACK.
Whew wow look Yall The “Lost History ” Of the United States…….(The Continental Congress ) First off was the “First Government Body” Out of “16″ Forgotten First Presidents and yes the sixteenth was George Washington hmmm and “No” Mr Washington Wasn’t the “First” President of the USA ……..But to get back on track The First “Black President” (Ready for this SL,CNN,NYC,CBS ,PBS ,BBC,) Oh that’s right the “Media” is Sold-Out Corporations……….Geezzzz….Okay back to President”John Hanson” The First Black President Of The USA (Hmmm didn’t see None Of This In My History Books In School In The South And NOR The North) .Hmmm Secrets Secrets And More Secrets…….Okay But President John Hanson was the Eighth President out of “16″ oh but wait go to the “Library of Congress” or better still (Hurry Folks Because The US Mint Stop Printing The $2.00 Bill) So get Ur two Dollors bill and There he is in the room seated as the DI is signed into law…….whew……
There is a saying out there`its not what they call you,its what you answer to’ He answers to `black’ maybe it has to do with those cabs passing you by at nights….lol
Moptop you are obviously out of your league, I was reponding to dp who was askn what President has done 4 us. Pay attention
O.K. President Obama is not “black”. Who cares! The important thing is that he was able to appeal to the majority of Americans to elect him as the POTUS. The problem is this, in general terms, there are some blacks who hate or dislike the President, specifically because he is not a direct descendant of slaves and has no connection to the civil rights movement.that neither he nor his African ancestors were participants.
Morgan Freeman and other blacks, it seems would be comfortable if it was, say, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Al Sharpton or the incredible Herman Cain was in the White House (note: the Late Mrs. Shirley Chisholm was also a member of this group). They are direct descendants of slaves. President Obama is not like them. Of course, his father is African (no connection to slavery or the civil rights movement. According to these people, for anyone to identifies him/herself as a black person he/she MUST be a descendant of slaves. (But wait! I am a descendant of slaves but I certainly do not identify myself as black. Others do. I was born in Africa and have lived in this country for forty years. I identify myself as American).
IF HAVING ONE OF YOUR PARENTS IDENTIFIED AS WHITE DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM BEEN “BLACK” THEN MILLIONS OF BLACKS ARE INDEED NOT BLACK (AS THEY WOULD WANT TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES OR AS THEY ARE FORCED DO BY SOCIETY) BUT “MULTI-RACIAL, AS MR. FREEMAN WOULD WANT YOU DO.
The word “multi-racial” is a feel-good term for most, if not all blacks who identify one of their parents as white. They cannot identify themselves as white because this racist society does not believe that they are PURE enough to be identified as white. The word “black” is a default term for descendants of slaves IN THE UNITED STATES. Today, around the world, the word provides the primary description of anyone who lives in a country where whites are the dominant population or are a subset of the population, and is not white and also a product of a mixed-race relationship where one of the parents is of African descent.
An African, both of whose parents are black certainly do not identify him/herself as “black” unless that individual resides in a country where there are white people or people who do not look like him/her. In there home country they identify themselves by the tribe of therir ancestors and as, for example, Ghanaian, Liberian, Ethiopian, Somalian, Tanzanian, etc.etc.
Blacks in the United States do not have tribes. SO SETTLE FOR JUST BEEN AMERICAN. It would save you from all the head/heartaches. Forget about all this “black” “Multi-racial”, “mulato”, I have Indian blood” nonesense. You are an American as any white American. You may “LOOK” different from a “white” American but you are still an American whose people fought and died for this country and whose blood, sweat and tears contributed to building this country. SO, PLEASE GIVE PRESIDENT OBAMA A BREAK. HE IS AN AMERICAN THAT IS WHY HE DOES NOTHAVE A BLACK AGENDA AS YOUR GOOD PROFESSOR AND OTHERS WOULD LIKE. HE HAS AN AMERICAN AGENDA: JOBS FOR ALL AMERICANS, HOUSING FOR ALL AMERICANS, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS, ETC, ETC. MORGAN FREEMAN, PROFESSOR WATKINS, TRAVIS, CORNEL AND THE REST WANT HIM TO BE UN-AMERICAN SO THAT THE “OTHER” AMERICANS CAN CRUCIFY HIM. PRESIDENT OBAMA IS AN AMERICAN. CASE CLOSED. Accept him and be proud of him as a President trying to do his best to do the right thing for ALL Americans, not just for “black” people. Oh! as for wanting him to get people out of jail/prison, HE CANNOT DO THAT. My suggestion: join Rev. Al Sharpton and other goog leaders to fight injustice in the country. And, for your information, there is injustice in Africa, the majority of which countries are populated by “blacks” and ruled by “blacks”. So this injustice thing is a human trait — that is, it does not belong exclusively to white people.
PLEASE ACCEPT OUR BROTHER AS ONE OF US–Americans.
first of all mixed race simply means a combination of two or more races but in the eyes of white america mixed race simply means black!!!!
Morgan Freeman is right; Obama is not black. Although he is Afrikan American. Most black people who are decendents of slaves are not mixed with white blood. If they were there wouldn’t be so many very dark skinned people in the u.s. or the islands.
And why is it that whenever this subject is broached black folks just love to talk about all the Indian and European bloodlines they have. It’s really very insulting, and as concerning that one drop rule; whites made that up to say that one drop of black or
African blood meant that a white was contaminated, but black folks act like it’s a badge of honour!
Sheesh! we still got a long ways to go!!!
You people are forgetting or neglecting that the mixing of blacks and whites didn’t start on the shores of this country or continent. It started in the forts and slave ports in Africa and continued on the slave ships during the long trips to the shores of America. History records that over 33% of African women were impregnated by white slave overseers BEFORE they arrived in America. It’s devastating to think of African women having been raped like that, but historical truth is historical truth.
You can try to hide it, deny it, but it’s historical truth. And it continued on the plantations, down through the generations after they arrived here. That is how so many brown, yellow and “offwhite” African-Americans came about. It continues today, mostly voluntarily and mostly by black men and white women pairings.
Accordance to white society, that an once of black blood makes you a black person, if you look black then your black. I understand that he is mixed in race, but everyone considered him as a black man. He looks more black than white, so he is considered as a black man. Not matter what people say, he is considered a black man. There were other Presidents who were of mixed race, but they could pass for white and they did, thats why we don’t know of any other Black Presidents before Barack Obama. They didn’t clam the slavery blood that was in them because it was easier to be white than black. So Im very proud of President Obama, because he ist he first president that looks like us. I don’t care what no one say, as far as Im concerned, He is the first black President for me.
He’s not correct! What is not enough that President Obama’s father was born in Africa? You have generations of black that are descendants of white slave owners that went ont to marry within the black community, would that mean that they’re not black. I’ve been waiting since I was born to have a President with a vowel at the end of his name and it turns out NOT to be an Italian. I think Mario Cuomo was out closest shot. Maybe his son Andrew, but i doubt it. Anyway the Presidents features are black. Do think Derek Jeter thinks of himself as bi-racial. Just because he looks more white doesn’t make him not black. He dates white women so it is safe to say that his kids would be more white but if by genetics the children come out black would or wouldn’t they be considered black ? My wife is mostly of Irish descetn and I’m all Italian. Are my children Bi-Ethnic?
Pauline what other Presidents were of mixed race?
First, the knowledge of the commentators is incredible. Blackness is a state of mind. Obama spent years at Rev Wright’s church, he married a Sista, and he declares himself Black. This is something that a lot of Negroes would not do.
Freeman would never question European Whites who claim to be Jews. Obama does not need Morgan Freeman’s OK.(is Morgan really a free man)
I have not read all the comments in answer to Mr Freeman, maybe someone has already said this: You have to be out of your d**n mind!!! Being the same complexion as the president with slightly more European features, I can say, I’ve never been treated as anything other than a Black man in this country!!!! In my 58yrs. on this planet, only the disillusioned, cannot see the treatment they experience in this country ESPECIALLY President Obama and NOT feel like a BLACK man!!! Whatever his ancestry, it has NOTHING to do with his not helping us more. In my opinion, he’s doing all he can in this fight while being handcuffed( by Congress)
Oh really? Well in that case we are all of “Mixed Race”, but as President Obama implied… because of his skin color and racial features he is perceived a “Black” man.
Morgan Freeman continues to lose my respect, maybe that incident a few yrs back has truly effected his brain.
B lack and White is a racist socialist term used only in states of slavery and oppression. That’s why it is so important in the US
Other countries designate their people by their ethnicity not their
complexion.
I ONE THOUSAND PERSENT AGREE WITH BROTHER MORGAN POSITION ON THIS CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE!
SPELLING CORRECTION: “ONE THOUSAND PERCENT AGREE!” SORRY THANKS!
I like what Cyber Surfer said about not sweating the small stuff. It’s the little foxes that spoin the vine. We’ve got to look at the big picture.
My friend and I have been arguing about this since 2008. I have never felt that Obama was the first Black president, and as time has gone by, I really feel this sentiment even stronger. I supported him heavily in the election and I will support him again. I never needed him to be Black, I just needed him to be a good president to the nation, including African Americans. He is biracial and as such his experience is as a bi-racial person, not a person who has identified as African American before we had mass immigration and are now trying to redefine what that has historically meant in this country. I don’t see why people get so angry when a Black person says this. It acknowledges the totality of who he is, not just one side. I raised two bi-racial children when my brother and his wife could not do so. Their life experiences were different than mine culturally and socially, although genetically we are similar. Even though they were raised by an African American family, they were never really whole persons until they grew up enough to embrace all of who they are and I encouraged this strongly. Obama being mixed-raced and being literally raised by whites does not lessen my support for him nor his humanity. Neither did the fact that he initially came out saying that he is different from African Americans (not other African Americans) due to the fact that he did not have a slave legacy — his mother being white and his father being from Kenya. I immediately thought when he said this, your slave legacy could be on your mother’s side. Because she is white, does not mean that you do not share a slave legacy. Obama has, in my opinion, demonstrated his lack of support for and discomfort with the African American community multiple times during his tenure. I follow policy, not personality and the policy side has been greatly lacking with respect to African Americans; and where it does apply has been overall devastating. Frankly, if having a Black president means being ignored politically and socially, and treated as society’s step-children, then frankly, I’d rather have a good, progressive candidate in office, despite his or her race or gender, who is committed to solving the matters that really matter to our community. Right now, I do not believe that we have that… We are also without strong leaders during this period, to hold the president accountable. Peace.
Morgan Freeman’s comments I believe were from a factual stand point of biology not racial identity. Notwithstanding, one must also consider the podium of life from which one speaks. For Dr. King and others subjected to speak to racist elites from the outside it was easier to keep the plight of African Americans as a single issue comingaled with the inclusion of other’s plight who joined in our struggle. However, President Obama, has to speak from the inside and find a balance that allows him to insure the door is left open for others on the outside to get inside where their voices can be heard with votes on bills that matter to us all. The relevant question becomes why are we still shouting from the outside condeming who has made it inside, instead of working to get to the inside where we through our collective votes on the House floor and Senate floor can help him. After all it is not because he has not tried to help his people and others (his job) rather in many instances he didn’t have the votes. So what will now do, lynch him because he could not do it alone? The Executive Branch of government is only one of three. Often in our community we are looking for a savior to come to our rescue while we excuse ourselves from the process and reject our own responsibility. Jesus Chirst is the only one who could change history by himself, the rest of humanity, needs the rest of humanity to step up and become engaged not enraged. There is much more I certainly would have love to have seen accomplished, notwithstanding, I can’t disregard President Obama’s efforts nor the things accomplished that would not have happened under a different Administration. When enough people with right hearts, right minds, right motivations and right purpose make it inside and maintain their integrity, then maybe we will have the collective will to truly change America. Everyone shouting change, is not also assuming responsibility for the change they say they want!
Just thinking out loud!
President Obama Need More REAL AFRICAN AMERICANS To Support Him & Let’s male n*****s Trying To Help Racist Piece Of Trash Destroy Him. Morgan Freedom Is Just A Mouth Running “n****r.”
He must be black or else black democrats wouldn’t be giving him a pass for not doing very much for the black community.
So yeah I guess his race and the fact that he married a black woman and has a beautiful family is enough for surface dwelling democrats.
The bar’s been set so low that when a Republican gets back in (pendulum will swing back to them in 2016) then they will do even less than Obama has done.
I’m moving to Brazil.
Unless you are a light-skinned African, you will not escape racism by heading off to Brazil. Brazil but I conducted research 20 years ago under a Brazilian professor who challenged my thinking on Race. If you were to take a moment to study branqueamento, you too would question the wisdom of the move. Branqueamento is a Portuguese word that equates to whitening. The underlying concept is that you only marry persons lighter than oneself so that one day your Clan will accrue the benefits of whiteness.
In other words Race matters there as well. Don’t assume that a high concentration of Africans equates to a higher level of consciousness.
Why not return home? You were not captured from Brazil, you were captured from the Continent. I married a Kenyan, Father from Jamaica and I have two U.S. born children. Every since Brother Robinson quit America, I have been wondering where should I go. If you find an island and have room-holler, I should be ready to retire in the next ten years.
Hotep
I never suggested that Brazil doesn’t have race issues or even a higher level of consciousness. I’m planning to go there because I’m weary of America’s debt issues and the sinking economy here. This country is really a corporation and it appears to be a perpetual war machine. I’d rather give my future family a chance to NOT be a part of that.
Yes Obama and his fellowship of unquestioning supporters are annoying as well but I’m not stupid enough to expect Brazil’s politics to be more honest.
It’s just that I’ve visited Brazil 3 times (loved it) and I’m currently learning Portuguese to one day move there. Mostly because of weather, culture and the lack of a military industrial complex. Still, I hate that they have a central bank as well.
I’ll look into branqueamento so I thank you for that.
Maybe you are correct about the looming debt and bleak outlook for the return of manufacturing jobs. The only way we return to the “glory years” is to evoke more protectionism which in itself creates a different set of unique problems.
One does not have to surrender critique to support our brother president. I support our brother 110%. Even you must concede that Country Club Mitt has no interest of advancing Justice/Equality for Black people.
Indeed…but a critique of Obama and his policies definitely doesn’t equate to a vote for Mitt. I’d take Obama’s BS over that sh!thead b*****d any day.
I think the only hope for America (and the world for that matter) is to rid itself of its monetary system (fractional reserve lending, federal reserve, moving interest rate, etc…). Since I don’t see that happening anytime soon then the best solution is to get the h**l outta here.
Has anyone heard of John Hanson? Not only was he the first president of this country but he was also a black men. He served from 1781-1782. It’s in the books, read it for yourselves. Peace
Morgan be quiet.
You are not black. You are dark brown. Nobody is black and nobody is white. We are all somewhere in the middle. What makes someone black or white is ancestry or bloodline.
Black and White are ethnicities no colors. There are threee major bloodlines in America: African, Indian and European. We all mixed. So, what makes you blacker that the president? Morgan is sad. He does not know this.
If you call yourself black, you have white or indian ancestors and vice versa. If Morgan thinks that black is a distinct and separate race of people, he is just ignorant.
Who is Morgan Freeman to talk? He has been kissing Clint Eastwood’s “white” b**t for years. I have never viewed Morgan Freeman as a Black man. He has never spoken up for black people. He has never done anything for black people, except stand against a black woman who accused a famous director of taking her work without asking for permission.
So, Morgan be quiet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with Morgan Freeman.
Morgan is stating the truth that Obama’s father is Afrikan and his mother is European.Europeans are not ‘pure’ either;they have Afrikan blood.Morgan Freeman,Muhammad Ali,Jesse Jackson,Al Sharpton,Boyce Watkins and others like that do not have any European as a parent.Obama thinking what he is does not change the truth that he has a European mother and an Afrikan father.Get over it deniers of truth.
I disagree with Mr. Freeman in his view about President Obama being the first black president. This is one of many reasons why Black History should be taught in our schools and colleges. Mr. Freeman probably should look more into his own ethnicity. I do believe that he is going to be surprise to find out that he is not 100% black. If every African American check their ethnic background everyone would probably be consider Mixed Race. An excellent book to read is Chemistry of the Blood. This book would give Mr. Freeman a better understanding of which parent blood determine the race of the child. Mr. Freeman it is the father blood. I am afraid Mr. Freeman as it has been recorded in the History Books Mr. Barack Obama is the first African American President of these United States of America. It seem as though the techniques Willie Lynch shared with the slave owners is still hanging around under the big oak tree.
Morgan(Slave Mentality) Freeman Question: Was Malcolm X the first “mixed-race” Black Muslim/Black Nationalist Leader in Anmerica?
I’m tired of hearing this BS already. What we as black people should worry about is WE as black people getting help from this President as to everyone else who have and still getting help from him. I can care less about his skin color. All I want is a President that help the Black American as well of everyone else who have benefit from him alot more than we have. By him claiming the black race doesn’t make anything better for us as black people and him as well because there’s nothing being done to fix the issue that we face every single day. I say this to everyone here take a look as to why is the President even accept his so called black blood when he hasn’t done anything for us! And don’t start saying the same old repeated lines “Wait until his Second Term for him to actually do something.Its obvious to see that is not true and probably never will be for Obama is America first interracial President that work for those who are Not black just look at what he’s done so far in four years he’s been President.
All I can say is when you are a 50/50 you have the right to claim your heritage be it black or white. Whats the big freakin deal? I understand what Morgan Freeman is saying. But who cares? Why is there any debate about this? And why does Morgan feel the need to say this? Who freakin cares? It really makes no difference what Morgan says. The point is if you are half this and half that you as an American citizen has the right to choose your ethnic preference. The way Morgan made out Obama’s mother to be makes me think he might be a little racist. I have admired Morgan from his days on “Electric Company” and thru the years. But maybe he didn’t mean that statement like it sounds.
I totally agree with Morgan…Michelle Obama is the First Black Lady, but we are still waiting for the first Black President
Why are n*****s SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO f*****g DUMB!
EDUCATION DOESN’T HELP THEM!
YO MORGAN,
You DUMB MOTHER-f****r,
“He’s not America’s first black president — he’s America’s first mixed-race president”.
If Clinton & Bush had a DNA test, the Mother-Fcukers would have had hundreds of MIXED RACE DNA.
This is not the first time Morgan Freeman has made some silly statements about race. On 60 minutes he asked Mike Wallace to “call him Morgan instead of a black man” and has called for the elimination of Black History Month. He told a reporter in Mississippi (where he lives) that he does not want to be called African American because he’s “too long here (America) to be trying to identify with some other country.” Morgan has–he thinks–transcended race and he believes all we have to do is forget about racism and I guess become as rich and famous as he is and all racism will disappear. And the proof of his ignorance is in his statements. He cannot identify with Africa because he knows nothing of his history. He, my friends, is fully acculturated to being an American.
Mixed….White..Black.. None of it really matters right now because he will be the first “what ever” voted out here in about 20 some days from now. An take that Biden smirk bunghole with him..