QOTD: Morgan Freeman Doesn’t Think Obama Is America’s First Black President
Here we go again….
Morgan Freeman was a guest on NPR’S Tell Me More show the other day to promote one of his new movies and somehow the conversation moved into the topic of Obama and how the Republican Party had it out for Obama from the beginning. Morgan thinks that one of the problems is that we keep calling Obama the first black president when he’s really America’s first mixed-race president. Obama has said before that he identifies himself as an African-American dude. (Side note: I’m mixed and whenever somebody asks me which side I identify with most, I tell them the side that gets me the best presents for my birthday. It’s the only logical way of looking at it.) Here’s how Morgan Freeman broke it down for us:
“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. 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.”
He is being purposely, purposely thwarted by the Republican Party, who started out at the beginning of his tenure by saying, ‘We are going to do whatever is necessary to make sure that he’s only going to serve one term.’ That means they will not cooperate with him on anything. So to say he’s ineffective is a misappropriation of the facts.”
And it was just last year when Morgan Freeman called Obama a black man while talking to Piers Morgan about the Tea Party crazies:
“Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What’s, what does that, what underlines that? ‘Screw the country. We’re going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.'”
WHICH IS IT, MORGAN FREEMAN? Stop allegedly boning your step granddaughter and clarify this shit. This nation needs to know whether or not Morgan Freeman thinks Obama is a black man or a mixed-race man. WE NEED TO KNOW. No, we don’t, but we do need Morgan to answer Harvey Levin’s calls about Katie Holmes and Tommy Girl. The only tea I want MF to spill is TomKat tea.