{"id":1916343,"date":"2023-04-18T16:25:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morgan-freeman-black-history-month-is-an-insult\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:26:51","slug":"morgan-freeman-black-history-month-is-an-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morgan-freeman-black-history-month-is-an-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221; Black History Month Is An Attack ,&#8221; says Morgan Freeman."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmorgan-freeman-black-history-month-is-an-insult%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Academy Award-winning actor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morgan Freeman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> made his feelings about Black History Month clear during a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/morgan-freeman-interview-it-s-an-insult-to-be-called-african-american-cwdbwqvbf\">interview<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 85-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollywood<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> star made the comments as part of a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/morgan-freeman-interview-it-s-an-insult-to-be-called-african-american-cwdbwqvbf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">profile<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> published in The Sunday Times of London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; Two things I may say in public that I find offensive. Month of Black History is an attack. You&#8217;re&#8217;re going to confine my history to a month, aren&#8217;t you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freeman went on to say, \u201cAlso \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/race\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">African-American<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019 is an insult. I don\u2019t subscribe to that title. Black people have had different titles all the way back to the n-word and I do not know how these things get such a grip, but everyone uses \u2018African-American.\u2019 What does it really mean?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The actor added that he is&#8221; very envious&#8221; of Denzel Washington&#8217;s&#8217;s career and&#8221; in total agreement&#8221; with a statement Washington made about race, according to The Sunday Times. I&#8217;m&#8217;m very proud to be black, but that&#8217;s&#8217;s not all I am, as Washington once said. Freeman agreed with it wholeheartedly, expressing his support. You cannot describe me in that manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freeman added,&#8221; There was no&#8221; me&#8221; in the movies when I was growing up. He was clever if there was a gray character in the film. Before Sidney Poitier arrived and convinced young people like me that&#8221; OK, yes, I can do that ,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The same is now applicable to many self groups, he claimed. The professional from&#8221; Shawshank Redemption&#8221; continued,&#8221; All people are involved today.&#8221; &#8221; Individuals. Asians, Black, White, LGBT, interracial couples and relationships. all are represented. Now that you can see them all on show, that is a substantial improvement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freeman has a five-decade Hollywood position and has won numerous awards, such as the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Prize, and the Golden Globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">TO GET THE Every Cable APP, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He is best known for his roles in a number of movies, such as&#8221; Million Dollar Baby&#8221;( 2004 ),&#8221; Street Smart&#8221;( 1987 ),&#8221; Driving Miss Daisy&#8221; ( 89 ),&#8221; The Shawshank Redemption( 1994 ), and&#8221; Invictus&#8221; ( 2009 ). For each of those titles, Freeman received an Oscar nomination, and he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for&#8221; Million Dollar Baby.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman made his feelings about Black History Month clear during a recent interview. The 85-year-old Hollywood star made the comments as part of a profile published in The Sunday Times of London. \u201cTwo things I can say publicly that I do not like. Black History Month is an insult. 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