Morgan Freeman: Obama Made Racism Worse, Tea Party Will Do 'Whatever [It] Can To Get This Black Man Outta Here'
By Noel Sheppard | September 23, 2011 | 12:23
Morgan Freeman, in an interview to be aired on CNN Friday evening, says that President Obama has made racism worse in America.
Chatting with Piers Morgan, the Oscar-winning actor also blames the Tea Party saying they're "going to do whatever [they] can to get this black man outta here” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Has Obama helped the process of eradicating racism, or has it in a strange way made it worse.
MORGAN FREEMAN: Made it worse. Made it worse. Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party, stated, and what’s this guy’s name, Mitch O’Connell. Is that his, O’Connell?
MORGAN: Yeah, Mitch McConnell, yeah.
FREEMAN: Mitch McConnell. 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.”
MORGAN: But is that necessarily a racist thing?
FREEMAN: It is a racist thing.
MORGAN: Is it not Republicans, wouldn’t that say that about any Democrat president?
FREEMAN: No, they would have gotten rid of Bill Clinton if they could have.
MORGAN: They tried.
FREEMAN: They did try, but still. I don’t, they’re not going to get rid of Obama either. I think they’re shooting themselves in the head.
MORGAN: Does it unnerve you that the Tea Party are gaining such traction?
FREEMAN: Yes.
MORGAN: Why?
FREEMAN: Well, it just shows the weak, dark, underside of America. We’re supposed to be better than that. We really are. That’s, that’s why all those people were in tears when Obama was elected president. “Ah, look at what we are. Look at how, this is America.” You know? And then it just sort of started turning because these people surfaced like stirring up muddy water.
Is that what it shows, or does it show that people - not just those in the Tea Party - have lost faith in this President?
Obama's poll numbers continue to sink. This includes amongst reliably Democratic supporters such as Jews and African-Americans?
Have Jews and African-Americans suddenly become black haters?
The reality is that more and more people - even some in the media, perish the thought - are coming to the conclusion that Barack Obama was totally unqualified for the job as president, and that his performance in the past 32 months proves it.
What folks like Freeman don't get is that there's nothing racist about such feelings, and to make such an accusation is, well, racist.
Unfortunately, such accusations are destined to get louder and more frequent as we near Election Day and the chances for a second Obama victory based on nothing but hope, change, and ether continue to diminish.
Then folks like Freeman will really be shouting "racism."
So much for the election of the first black president bringing our nation together.
And on this I agree with Freeman: Obama has made racism worse.
*****Update: GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain responded to Freeman's claims after his victory in Saturday's Florida straw poll.
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Heaven help us!
Submitted by HelloDare on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:32pm.
Freeman played God in two films. So he speaks with authority -- at least in Hollywood.
help
Submitted by jimtrees on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:08pm.
Someone on the show should have bailed this idiot out, or held cue cards a little higher. It's called politics Morgan. That's when one party tries to defeat the other. If you had enough sense to change a nickel, you would at least know that. I like your movies, but please don't comment on something you know absolutely nothing about.
Hey Morgan, which racist said this?...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:23pm.
"I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president," he told ABC's "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer."
That's right, the current occupant of the White House that plays class warfare and has done more to divide the country than unite it as he said he would.
He has not been a really good president yet, and he has only one more year to go, then out he will go!
The TEA Party didn't say: "Typical white person" or "That's how white folks will do ya'."
Racism
Submitted by Let's be Frank on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 5:44pm.
Of course racism will NEVER go away!! There are to many African Americans that are racist or live off of racism for it to happen. Let's tell the truth, they want the race card. It's like a free pass.
Words have meaning
Submitted by johnnyatlanta on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:00pm.
Just like our President and the vast majority of blacks in this country, Freeman judgse EVERY decision whites make based on race yet they ironically call whites racist. I know it’s hard to believe and difficult to understand but you must accept the FACT that most blacks identify with Rev. Wright, Jesse Jackson, and many other race whores. Most whites refuse to believe or understand that the majority of blacks have a subdued hatred of whites. Not a dislike but a gut wrenching hatred! The few white libtards that do realize it justify black HATRED and violence against whites just as Ron Paul justified the 911 attacks. Wake up folks! Freeman’s lack of reasoning is simply based on his hatred of white folks.
johnnyatlanta...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 12:11pm.
Right of Limbaugh? That is awesome! I think I'm going to have to adopt that as well! I wouldn't say that Freeman hates white folks though, I prefer to believe that he is caught up in the liberal primordial goo, has no understanding of politics or world events, and is reacting to liberal talking points to support... as Holder said... "one of his own."
He is humble about how he became successful and always references The Electric Company's big break that he was given. He is just another useful liberal, political, idiot.
Holder on the other hand.. does hate.
Blacks can't be racist
Submitted by Mahakala on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 6:44pm.
Don't believe me then just ask them. I am so sick of every time you disagree with this president it is because you are a racist. It couldn't possibly be because of his failed policies. The mouthpieces for the black community and black politicians want racism. That is why they are continually bring it up. It's their bread and butter. It's from where they get their power and make their fortunes. They will do their best to prevent us from seeing the day when a person will be judged by his character and not by the color of their shin.
Racism and Freeman
Submitted by Edditor on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:09am.
Well, stop and think. Mr. Obama is half white and half black, and Mr. Freeman will only acknowledge Obama's "black" half, is that racist? Mr. Freeman has also played a policeman, dectictive, criminal, President, and on this show, he plays the fool.
When pigs fly
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 12:49am.
I have news for mister freeman: I will buy a ticket to your next movie and your next movie and your next movie when pigs fly at the Equator. I certainly do not equate freeman's voice with the voice of God, no matter what any tinhead in Hollywood thinks.
Freeman gay?
Submitted by Daisytoo on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 1:59pm.
I don't know if God is gay, but for the first time, watching Morgan Freeman's facial expressions, I realize he's gay. Not that this has much of anything to do w/putting 2 entertainers together on a TV talk show and expecting an intelligent political discussion to occur, it was simply interesting.
Shawshank
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:33pm.
is dead to me. Bummer.
actually
Submitted by kata on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:58pm.
when he married his step granddaughter that pretty much ruined any respect I had for the guy.
creepy
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:47pm.
I didn't know about that.
I agree
Submitted by kata on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:12pm.
He's been in the relationship for 10 yrs. (since she was 17). I wonder if Piers Morgan asked him about this.
That is just disgusting.
Submitted by HelenS on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:07pm.
That is just disgusting.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
kata.....sounds like he is....
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 5:51pm.
suffering from "Woody Allen" disease. These Hollywierd types are just degenerates!!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Okay Kat
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:38pm.
I looked it up and it's actually worse than I thought. Creepy doesn't do it justice. Maybe this guy shouldn't be criticizing others.
{Edit} Wow- NB was busy overnight. 1300+ hits on this little wedding photo in less than 12 hours. (Originally posted at 11:46pm, 9/23)
{Edit 2} 2624 hits as of 5:38 pm. Almost all from NewsBusters. NB is really pulling in the traffic today. Nice.
Yuk how disgusting? I didn't
Submitted by pac70 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 10:52pm.
Yuk how disgusting? I didn't know that and makes me really look at him in a pedophilic sort of way now. Stick to the make believe movie business Morgan and keep your dumb comments to that venue.
delete repeat
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:50pm.
Sheesh- Sloooooooow today.
Below rock bottom??
Submitted by pockets64 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:33pm.
I didn't know it was possible for me to think any less of someone. He's now just above Jane Fonda in my book.
I'm more than a little tired of these racist rants saying that the only reason to oppose a politician who happens to be black is that he is black.
a thousand votes for tribute
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 12:57am.
The country is tanking economically with over 9% unemployment and the stock market continuing to drop like an anvil on a bridge made of paper plates and Freeman says he would vote for Obama 1,000 times if he could. Could it be that Freeman doesn't believe in the "One man, one vote" rule or is he entitled to do something the rest of us are not? Freeman is the racist here and I look forward to boycotting every movie he ever makes.
He is a Communist
Submitted by ConradCA on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:26pm.
Admires Castro and Cuba that is all you need to know.
Although E'Dena Hines is his step-grandaughter (the
Submitted by Rush Fan on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:37pm.
granddaughter of Morgan's first wife), the National Enquirer reports that E'Dena "was raised by Morgan and Myrna "since she was a little girl." So he really is sleeping with someone who was raised as a daughter.
But that's okay. There is nothing wrong with Freeman sleeping with his step-granddaughter (or daughter). That is considered acceptable behavior as far as the Left is concerned, especially among celebrity Leftist. Moreover, if Freeman has an opportunity to play the role of a sexual predator, he won't have to act for the role.
So...
Submitted by conundrum on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:40pm.
apparently all the money and power in Hollywood doesn't change one glaring fact: he cheats on his wife with an underaged child. You can take the black man out of th ghetto, but not vice versa.
Oops, does that make me racist? Pointing out his own actions?
Duh!
Submitted by johnnyatlanta on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:09pm.
Duh! Did you really think Freeman was any different than all the other Hollywood libtards? If you're looking for a MAN who puts his country before himself, I suggest you focus on a TRUE American hero, Congressman Allan West.
Duh!
Submitted by johnnyatlanta on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:09pm.
Duh! Did you really think Freeman was any different than all the other Hollywood libtards? If you're looking for a MAN who puts his country before himself, I suggest you focus on a TRUE American hero, Congressman Allan West.
Couldn't be because he isn't doing good at his job
Submitted by Lee.Metford on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:33pm.
Let me be clear, Mr. Freeman you are not ignorant because of the color of your skin, you are ignorant because you are either uniformed or ill-informed.
Typical
Submitted by Joe W. on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:34pm.
Referring to his sainted grandmother as a "typical white person" didn't do a hell of a lot to bridge the racial divide in our country either.
Both comments are true
Submitted by JeffC... on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:34pm.
Obama has made racism worse because his race is all he's got. The congressional black caucus admitted that had Obama not been black, they'd be marching on the White House. Sounds like racism to me.
As for doing everything to make him a one-term president--damn straight! So far, that has meant supporting those who oppose him, and come November 2012, voting against him personally.
For most of us, it's not about race. It's about preventing and removing incompetence.
For acolytes like Morgan Freeman, it's all about race.
Morgan reprises his role from "Brubaker"...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:37pm.
...playing the crazy guy who was locked in solitary...
I recall his line from "Shawshank", "Get busy livin' or get busy lyin'"...sompin' like dat.
racism
Submitted by wingnut55 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:38pm.
I think it is interesting that liberals see only the color of a person's skin, and not their policies or actions. In a way I feel sorry for them because of their short sightedness. They can't see America as a country of just people, but only a country of white people, black people, brown people, yellow people.
Thanks, wingnut.
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:53pm.
You saved me from posting anything on Freeman. Well said.
No Morgan, we here on the
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:53pm.
No Morgan, we here on the Right are not racists. We could give two cr@ps about the color of a persons skin, we care about a persons actions.
It appears that you and your fellow libturds are showing yourselves to be the most narrow minded, hateful and bigoted people out there.
Keep trying to throw the race card, it lost its effect somewhere back in 2008.
Goes to show
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:56pm.
You get someone who pretends to be a black guy, prop him up as if he were a black guy, use racism assuming he's a black guy, you get someone who did make racism worse, but the TEA party is doing whatever it can to get this Communist manCHILD outa here in spite of all that.
-Jon
It's a shame because I love
Submitted by Ruths husband Ben on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:57pm.
It's a shame because I love Morgan Freeman as an actor. Unfortunately, the media has very successfully painted the tea party movement as a racist movement, notwithstanding that the tea party has never espoused a racist agenda. The tea party movement has always been about restoring the government to its original intent and place as a servant of American society, not it's overlord.
But Mr. Freeman sees Obama as a black man under attack and instinctively wants to protect him. Obviously, to him - based on his life experience as a black man, this must have a racial motivation. What he fails to understand is that Obama, when he pushed the Obamascare agenda and the Big Government solutions to the fiscal problems of America over the objections of half of America ("we won") made himself a political enemy of all those whose voices he disregarded. From the viewpoint of a Constitution originalist, it has nothing to do with race. Had Obama been an albino of Swedish descent (the whitest person I could think of), he would have still invoked the wrath of the tea party.
This is not to say that there aren't racists who use the cover of the tea party to practice their hate, but every time I have seen racists at tea party events they were clearly treated as persona non grata. But morons like that don't take hints real well.
Well said, Ruth's Husband Ben...
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:21pm.
"But Mr. Freeman sees Obama as a black man under attack and instinctively wants to protect him. Obviously, to him - based on his life experience as a black man, this must have a racial motivation. What he fails to understand is that Obama, when he pushed the Obamascare agenda and the Big Government solutions to the fiscal problems of America over the objections of half of America ("we won") made himself a political enemy of all those whose voices he disregarded. From the viewpoint of a Constitution originalist, it has nothing to do with race. Had Obama been an albino of Swedish descent (the whitest person I could think of), he would have still invoked the wrath of the tea party.
"This is not to say that there aren't racists who use the cover of the tea party to practice their hate, but every time I have seen racists at tea party events they were clearly treated as persona non grata. But morons like that don't take hints real well."
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/comment/reply/50562/1566979#ixzz1YoBocvoh
Still, in my opinion, both his supporters and his detractors focus far too much on Obama's color. And it creates a vicious cycle where his critics charge the President sees everything through the prism of race which is met by counter charges that his opponents are fixated on his blackness. And consequently accusations of racism and race cards are flung in both directions. Obama must be faulted for not confronting this issue head-on. It is toxic.
Jer
playing the race card
Submitted by brassia on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:35pm.
Jer,
I think you are absolutely wrong. Obama, his supporters and the MEDIA (which was revealed and uncovered in 2009) were using the race card to prevent ANY criticism of the president from the very onset!It is a dangerous precedent as we live in a free ( for now..) society and ALL presidents were criticized ...none had thinner skin than Obama and not because of it's color!!!!!
He himself made color an issue in his statements, but in spite of him completely destroying our country, our economy, our way of life we are forbidden to say a negative word!!!!
Morgan Freeman's of our country are enjoying the preferencial treatments afforded by the affirmative action and reverse discrimination , however never satisfied and always see everything in black and white color and that is very unfortunate!
Mr. Freeman
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:00pm.
Is Barack Obama a great president because he is black?
I will reserve my right to criticize any president of the United States of America for any reason Freeman -- even if he is a member of a protected class.
Sure he is!
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:14pm.
Don't you know our strength doesn't come from competence, or excellence, or having the best qualified people in important positions....it comes from diversity!
Good Actor
Submitted by touche on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:07pm.
Morgan is such a good actor, he had me believing he was actually intellegent. Now I see he is just another face that can read a teleprompter.
at least he can read...
Submitted by brassia on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:43pm.
You are absolutely right- how many times did we see a supposedly talented great actor is unable to say 2 words without a note.....
just to show you those "multimillionares " having amassed all that wealth with IQ in single digits still feel they can lecture us and advise us on how to live our lives!!!
MORGAN F, Man oh man. He should never ever speak, without a
Submitted by upcountrywater on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:07pm.
script ever again.
Another person flushing MLK, typical lefty. Guess he's looking for work?
Shup-up and don't act too.
I'm Taxed Enough Already, and am rooting for Herman Cain.
A fellow Democrat when Reagan was one.
Too bad Morgan...
Submitted by tanstaafl4 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:09pm.
Now I have to put you in the category of individuals who don't seem to understand that...
"The racism charge is an excuse for Obama's incompetence, no more, no less."
(I have admired MF for standing above (appearing to) the stuff he says above in this interview. Not to mention his talents as an actor.)
Mr. Freeman
Submitted by ucjb on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:11pm.
This has nothing to do with the president skin color, it's about his policies.
Freeman proves my point,
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:13pm.
that liberals argue like little girls. When Piers proves his hypothesis wrong by using the Clinton example, Freeman says, "But still...", and then goes off on another disconnected search for a point.
Here's a tip to liberals when debating or arguing with someone who proves you wrong: Using the phrase, "but still..." doesn't actually prove your point, or mitigate your opponents facts.
Nitwits.
A wonderful man, like Powell
Submitted by buddyc on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:15pm.
A wonderful man, like Powell who cannot look beyond race. I don't hate either one. I feel sorry for them. The tea party is not racist.
Many people who have strong disagreements with the "business" of race as practiced by the Sharpton/Jackson types voted for Obama because they thought he was best candidate. As a side benefit they hoped his election would discredit the Sharpton/Jackson types.
It is in the best interests of blacks and whites to discredit the Jackson/Sharpton types. It hasn't worked out very well. It is not just Obama who has made the situation worse. It is people like Freeman and Powell who make the ridiculous claim that people who disagree with Obama, do so based on race.
Hah!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:21pm.
So if Obama is not re-elected it's racism.
If Herman Cain is elected it's racism.
What a bizzaro world liberals live in.
I see that the MSM was able
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:22pm.
I see that the MSM was able ro convince Hollywood that the Tea Party is racist. Vut they still haven't convinced anyone paying attention.
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So Cain is racist?
Submitted by Sefton on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:23pm.
I guess Freeman considers Herman Cain to be a racist because not only is he trying to take the job of a failed president, he's also admitted that impeaching him would be "a great thing to do."
How's that for some reality in your made-up world, Morgan?
I see that the MSM was able
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:23pm.
I see that the MSM was able ro convince Hollywood that the Tea Party is racist. But they still haven't convinced anyone who is paying attention.
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I guess I just added someone to MY Bucket List!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:25pm.
To vow never to see one of his movies, watch any TV appearances, or support ANYTHING he ever does again!
Good actor...but what a dumba**!
Submitted by blutarsky on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:27pm.
Did you learn your racism when you were working on the Electric Company, Morgan?
that became a policy
Submitted by brassia on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:51pm.
Yes, he was given a job BECAUSE the companies are required to have a certain % of minorities to qualify for government grands, subsidies., contracts..etc...
Racism. May It Flourish.
Submitted by chaffer on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:27pm.
Liberals don't hate racism. They love it, exploit it, thrive on it, wallow in it. Real or imagined, racism is liberal's cash cow, their raison d'etre. They never ever want it to end. Its' the perpetual excuse for any vile, reprehensible, ignorant act perpetrated by any black anywhere. It's always due to racism. It's always the fault of the oppresive white man. The great Race Hustlers of our time, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Sheila Jackson and yes, Morgan Freeman, can say the most absurd things and be fawned over by the liberal media. These clowns are the real racists in our society. Not the Tea Party.
Booker T. Washington...
Submitted by tanstaafl4 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:36pm.
...described the race hustler over a century ago.
"There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
Booker T
Submitted by nanabanana on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:22pm.
Now doesn't that describe Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson pretty doggoned well?
it does..
Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 9:08pm.
To a booker "T" ... ;)
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. –Albert Einstein My Twitter
thank you!
Submitted by brassia on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:53pm.
Very well said!!!!
thank you!
Submitted by brassia on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:53pm.
Very well said!!!!
The race card has been so overplayed
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:31pm.
....that it has absolutely no meaning to me any longer.
I'm a racist because I want fiscal responsibility and think Obama and the dems are an irresponsible bunch of idiots? Fine, I'm a racist. I'M A RACIST. I'M A RACIST!!!!!
Now what?
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 109 (and Counting)
No
Submitted by BeanerECMO on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:31pm.
BHO has not made racism worse; his acolytes; i.e., CBC, Freeman, Jackson, Sharpton, unions, minds of mush students, La La Land Limousine Liberals, RINOs, academics, legacy media, et al; have made it worse; but from the black side. It's the only card they have, but it has to be taken outta the deck because of the torn corners identify it before it can be played.
Liberals
Submitted by Brad90956 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:32pm.
Expect more of this as the election heats up. Liberals know (deep down) that Obama is an incompetent failure so all they have left is the race card. Racial allegations without any facts. Liberals will become more unhinged (more than usual) as Obama's poll numbers drop....get your popcorn ready.
I'm waiting to hear next that
Submitted by gr29az on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:53pm.
I'm waiting to hear next that if zero looses we can expect rioting in the streets.
riots are coming!
Submitted by brassia on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:57pm.
Without a doubt!
Do you remember a private meeting Obama had when he visited Sharpton in NY city?
It had already been disgussed and planned.....Liberals plan ahead!!!
...trunkless legs of stone...
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:48pm.
The One, The Only, our very own Ozymandias-on-the-Potomac is doing quite a nice job all by himself, actually, in greasing the skids for his speedy one-way trip out of town in 2012. The mask has long been discarded and the Chicago brass knuckles now accompany every handshake in his desperate bid for reelection (or, in contemplation of the negative, engaging in a scorched-earth policy in retreat).
All the eeeeeevil , raaaaaacist Tea Party (as opposed to the demonstrably calm, tolerant, civil, and oh-so-inclusive Lib/Dem Plantation owners) needs to do is simply stand aside and let him and the DNC self-destruct as their agendas are increasingly exposed to the disinfectant of sunlight.
MLK would be spinning in his grave at supersonic RPMs to see the foaming-at-the-mouth blind-rage racism that Eric Holder's "people" routinely exhibit and espouse on a daily basis towards anyone who dares(!) to inhibit their power grabs. Character content counts for nothing; pigmentation quotient and victimhood (or victim-in-the-hood) status is everything.
A hack of a community organizer has been planted in the White House and the nation is continuing to eat the bitter fruit thereof.
November 2012 is steadily approaching.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Ozymandias-on-the-Potomac Per
Submitted by celator on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:56pm.
Ozymandias-on-the-Potomac
Perfect!
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away". --Shelley
Poetic irony indeed
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:05pm.
Yup. A month or so ago the level of malignant hubris that our current Narcssist-in-Chief routinely displays caused that poem from many(ahem!) years-ago High School English to pop up in my memory.
Seems to be a morbid curiousity to observe petty tyrrants (or wannabes) sink into slow-motion train wrecks on their way to oblivion, their only real legacies being that of serving as cautionary negative examples of how not to rule/govern.
Ozoneman is headed for that same historical niche.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Pilgrim 1949
Submitted by tnmccoy on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:39pm.
Well said!
Morgan is right
Submitted by RD King on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:39pm.
The oh so great uniter, solver of all the universe problems has made race and everything else worser.
I agree that Obama has made Racism worse.
Submitted by sevans1956 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:45pm.
When you accuse a police officer and his department of acting "stupidly" ( is that even a word?) just because he asked a black man for his ID, then you are a racist. If a police officer stops me for ANY reason, the SMART thing to do is to do as he says.
This President appears to be black, so he may have seen prejudice, but his mother, his grandparents that raised him and the Ivy League schools that he attended were all very much white. It is not his skin color that makes us mad, it is his liberal, big government policies.
BTW, Barry is NOT a Muslim...he is a nothing. He stated in his own book that his Mother was an atheist because the Christians were mean to her. I think that I would want to have a President that believed in God, even if I didn't agree with that religion, than one that believes he can govern in the absence of one.
This is so disappointing
Submitted by HelenS on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:46pm.
I actually harbored a hope that he was either non-political or slightly right. Seems that was another delusion on my part.
He always seemed so dignified and intelligent. And I LOVE his voice! He was the only one who could have narrated "March of the Penguins" and been so perfect for it.
Alas, another one to try to watch while trying to forget their politics/mind-set.
I really shouldn't be surprised, I suppose, but it really is disappointing.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
WRONG
Submitted by giatn on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 1:48pm.
Race is not an issue in complaints about Obama, regardless of what Garafalo and
Freeman seem to think. When the left resorts to blaming racism and Geo Bush
for Obama's failed agenda, you know his actual policies have no defense. It
might be an inconvenient truth but EVERY tentacle of Obama's massive government
takeover has failed to even approximate the desired results. Health care, financial
stability, clean energy, better education, infrastructure investment, etc. are all positive
goals. However, it would be hard to imagine worse results than his specific
programs have produced. Unelected bureaucrats should not have control of the
economy, especially when it is based on incomprehensible legislation. Obama
does NOT get a pass. In fact, the only groups that seems to emphasize his race
are African-Americans and blacks. Failure is colorblind.
new proposed project
Submitted by brassia on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:09pm.
Obama proposed a new infrastructure project a day ago- INTRACONTINENTAL railways!
Wonder if he is losing it completely or he never had it to begin with!
Seems as soon as he tries to say something on his own...not written on teleprompter his intelligence really shines .....
Is he under the impression that tea partiers have
Submitted by Lipton on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:06pm.
never gone to or been part of his movies? Because he has had a wildly successful, consistent career to have every tea party member dismissing his movies for racist reasons.
I support it
Submitted by brassia on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:17pm.
I stopped going to the movies - the majority of Hollywood misfits are haters of Tea party and conservatives , just like Freeman and we should make them aware that large percentage of US citizens is being offended by their racism and hateful remarks towards Tea Party- the real patriots trying to save our country.
Hit them where it hurts- Hollywood isn't doing too well...they were given bailouts too!
Morgan Freeman
Submitted by Jim in Houston on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:08pm.
Sorry, you racist moron, but many of us would like to see a real black man in the White House - Herman Cain. Now stick that in your liberal racist pipe and smoke it!
Jim in Houston
Submitted by tnmccoy on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:44pm.
Sorry, whether it's fair and accurate or not, Herman Cain's health is going to keep him from any political office. Once the word 'cancer' has been let out of the bag, voters will have that picture in mind in the polling booth. Cain is a good, intelligent and capable man. But he's not going anywhere politically.
MYSERY MAN
Submitted by ONTIME on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:13pm.
There is always going to be racism in one form or another, intolerance is inherent in humans just as animals will turn on their own kind to protect a species. The difference we can and do try and overcome our differences and learn some toleraton for each others ways.
The Mysery Man is not being chastised for race, he is a bumbling fumbling inept marxist and is way out of his depth, his policies, methods and thinking is not even conducive to the American ways of free enterprise or traditions, he is inconsistent, lies lke hell and cannot keeep his facts straight. He and his party broke the law to become POTUS and does not deserve the title until he complies, he will not offer his ordinary credentials leaving him suspect in numerous ways. His recent actions have implicated him and his party into collusion, complicity and huge fraud and now nmore scandal has erupted and investigations are beginning to pile up in the doorway, he will soon be blocked in and no place to escape.
It's not racism that has shot his foot, it is lies, deception and possible criminal activity.....another R. Nixon but none the less as guilty.
Three things
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:20pm.
Racism?
Submitted by iamsaved on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:20pm.
Could it be Obama's incompetence maybe? Or the fact that he is a socialist who has surrounded himself with like-minded people? Or how about his incubation at a black theology preaching church? No, it couldn't be any of those reasons patriotic Americans want to get rid of this scourge to the nation.
Oh, and let's not forget Holder's Civil Rights group at DOJ who looks the other way when blacks are committing the discrimination openly and blatantly but attacks non-blacks if they even mention words like "briar patch" or "tar baby".
Hey Morgan, Obama is half-white. Why get your sensitivities all bent out of shape? The Tea Party is attacking Obama's white half, so how is that racist?
He's right.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:22pm.
The evil flames of racism have been fanned. The problem is this fool doesn't realize who is doing the fanning and why.
So I guess if Bush had been black,
Submitted by HelloDare on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:25pm.
So I guess if Bush had been black, democrats would not have tried to get "This Black Man Outta Here". Is that what you're saying, Mr. Freeman?
Look what Smuckie Shumer did to...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:36pm.
Michael Steele... SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER had just finished his last sputtering of outrage at the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court when news broke that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which he chairs, had a small problem. Newsday and the New York Post both reported that the DSCC was in illegal possession of the credit report for Maryland's Republican Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele. Two of Schumer's staffers, Katie Barge and Lauren Weiner, used Steele's Social Security number to fraudulently get his credit history.
The DSCC expects Steele to run for the Senate seat which Democrat Paul Sarbanes will vacate with his retirement next year. Nothing frightens Democrats more than a conservative African-American and Steele demonstrated in his appearance at the 2004 GOP convention that he has charisma, warmth, and a sharp sense of policy.
Making this even more scandalous, it turns out that the DSCC had known about Barge and Weiner's pilfering for over two months, having placed both on a paid suspension since early July, according to the Post. And yet no one gave any indication that the DSCC notified Michael Steele about the invasion of his privacy until this week. Given that federal statutes make the acquisition, distribution, acceptance, and even reading of this data without specific written authorization a federal crime, the theft should have resulted in no small amount of media attention.
Racist
Submitted by dpc1212 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:26pm.
Morgan Freeman is a Racist!!!
To dpc1212
Submitted by tnmccoy on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 3:48pm.
And your comment is NOT a rant, it's a simple statement of fact-based truth. Cheers!
Morgan can't seem to discern dreams from reality
Submitted by JLin on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:28pm.
He is writing movie scripts off the top of his head. Morgan, if Dick Cheney were president and doing the things Obama is doing I would be demanding his ouster too. You know very well this is not about a "black man" in the Oval Office. Stop with the deflections.
Pathetic.
Submitted by D2Boston on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:29pm.
It's always about race with these people... that's all they've got.
he’s right.. it’s all racism.. >Sarcasm off<
Submitted by USA4freedom on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:37pm.
Did you notice when he said, at first when he was elected..
All those people were in tears, this is America..
Then it just started turning.. because “these people” started to surface..
Maybe.. “These people” are looking at:
*Obama care
*Unemployment
*Inflation
*Our standing in the world
*Spending money like a crack whore
*Closing Chrysler dealerships of a car company that you are trying to save.. Owned by Republicans
*Passing all sorts of bills before reading them.
*The fact that Obama is angrier at Israel for building settlement then Iran for building the bomb.
*Years of 9+% (u3) and 17%+ (U6) unemployment
* Hiring tax cheats and lobbyist (despite campaign promise not to).
* Having a tax cheat (idiot) run the Treasury
* Having a tax cheat write the tax laws.
*Screwing the public while looking out for the Unions
*Food stamps grown from 26 million to 45+Million
*Pass the largest spending bill in our history before anyone has read it.
*Census moved to White House
* Green energy B.S. money pit
*Tons of regulations that kill jobs and make energy expensive
*Stops oil drilling in the Gulf.
*Name-calling
*Class warfare
*Printing money, the end result, you dollar worth less
*Seem to crap on our allies, kiss the butts of our enemies.
(If you were a supporter)
*Gitmo still there
*Still at war (s) now in Libya
Ya know come to think of it he’s right.. it’s all racism..
>Sarcasm off<
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
It's his liberalism stupid...
Submitted by stage9 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:43pm.
---
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
He's right. Obamao made racism worse.
Submitted by johnsonl on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:44pm.
He made the race card meaningless. Now, how will racist non-whites get their way?
Gah, yet another actor who
Submitted by amyshulk on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:45pm.
Gah, yet another actor who just ruined his movies for me by opining that I *MUST* be a racist for being against big gov't.!!!
Ronald Reagan
Piers Morgan
Submitted by Dennis D on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:49pm.
Morgan is a pushover. He allows his guests to make foolish comments unchallenged.
Yet another Liberal bigot.
Submitted by H_Tuttle on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:49pm.
Yet another Liberal bigot.
Bucket List
Submitted by Dennis D on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:51pm.
My Bucket List
Making sure Obama is a one term President.
Obama Made Racism Worse
Submitted by adlibn on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:55pm.
We are trying to get Obama out to SAVE the country. Freeman is right about one thing: Obama did make racism worse, by playing off of racial politics to help his cronies. Obama could have been the person to help heal racial divides in America. Instead he uses the racial divide for his own political ends.
Obama made recism worse by highlighting the existing racism?
Submitted by True Liberal on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:58pm.
Let me see if I have this straight: Obama made racism worse how? by being such an epic FAIL that now everybody wants that black president out? But doesn't that imply that people are abandoning him on a basis other than race? Especially the ones who voted for him out of White Guilt (don't include me!)? Or is he implying that Obama ruined the chances of black candidates for the next 50 or however many years by casting black candidacy in such a bad light? Is he saying that Obama is not a credit to his race?
Is Morgan Freeman a racist?
Some friendly advice to MF: you are a very good actor enjoying a well earned, very enviable lifestyle. In the future, refrain from saying anything that isn't on a script you are holding in front of you.
:)
You can't fight poverty by penalizing the creation of wealth
Respect
Submitted by nogard on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:00pm.
I have lost all respect for this man. Tell me Morgan, is it racist to want to remove someone from the white house who is either criminally incompetent or criminally intentioned (there is no other explanation for this buffoons actions) regardless of his color, or is it racist to SUPPORT an ABSOLUTE DISASTER OF A POLITICIAN simply because he is the same color that you are? Answer me that truthfully and then SHUT UP!
How Do You Explain Our Love for Herman Cain
Submitted by Jullou on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:05pm.
If Republicans/conservatives want Obama out because he is black (half white), then how do you explain our love and respect for Herman Cain?
How is it that Liberals don't understand suffering? They constantly talk about the poor and how they suffer. Well, libs, we are suffering right here, right now. So do you sorta think that we disagree with Obama's leftist programs that are dragging us down? We don't want to be another Greece.
Come on, and try to think more profoundly, liberals.
Obama's black?
Submitted by vote24 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:10pm.
Obama's black? Well in that case any objections I have to his communist politics can simply be discarded because, well you know, he's black. And clearly just being black means I will abide by whatever Obama says or does without a whisper of dissent on my part. What was I thinking. Obama's black? Well then by all means go right ahead with the corruption and corrosion of our once great nation. I mean I really didn't know. Well this changes everything. No black person shall ever be questioned ever again, as it should be. Thank you Morgan for helping me out here.
Lost me
Submitted by icu4whatur on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:10pm.
Morgan freeman , loved your acting you really made a difference until now. I am so offended that you would use race as a motive for the bad policies of this president. I am never going to watch another movie you make . You let down millions of people in that comment. You should apologize to america for you racist thoughts that you create to stir up something that is not present. That Sir, is inciting race in itself. And you lost your credibilty. Good Job
Lost me
Submitted by icu4whatur on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:10pm.
Morgan freeman , loved your acting you really made a difference until now. I am so offended that you would use race as a motive for the bad policies of this president. I am never going to watch another movie you make . You let down millions of people in that comment. You should apologize to america for you racist thoughts that you create to stir up something that is not present. That Sir, is inciting race in itself. And you lost your credibilty. Good Job
It is all about color for me...
Submitted by TeachertT on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:11pm.
The color RED! Marxist red, communist red, nazi red, etc. Funny how socialist liberals like red, lots of red.
Have you also noticed, that the good actors don't seem to pocess a single brain cell? Hum, I wonder if you have to be stupid as dirt to be an actor/actress, at least a good one. I think I too will pass on his movies from now on. Too bad, I thought he was a good actor. I won't be able to get past the thought of his contempt of me, as I watch his movie. Why should I spend my hard earned dollars on that?
Liberal Idiocy
Submitted by Rambo2010 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:14pm.
Yeah, the Tea Party hates blacks. That's why the favorite candidate of the Tea Party is Herman Cain.
I'll be glad when he's "outta here."
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:21pm.
I'll be glad when Obama is "outta here." It'll forestall some of the racist labels that the liberals keep tossing around. Of course, once Obama has been relegated to the Ex-President" category, the liberals will try to continue to blame racism for Obama's extinct political career. Just like all other modern presidents, their political career is over when their presidency ends. Obama will be no different. Not that any of the race baiters will ever admit that.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Freeman marginally knowledgable
Submitted by superficialman on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:25pm.
The fact that Freeman can't even name the Senate majority leader reflects his lack of political knowledge. All he knows is there's a black president, and if you don't like him, you're a racist. I challenge all Hollywood liberals and Warren Buffets to keep $250,000 per year, which means that they are still "rich", and send the rest to pay off the debt, i.e. contribute to the Democrats' slush fund.
Is the Economy racist too?
Submitted by TN Mom on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:35pm.
Is the Economy racist too? JOBS. JOBS. JOBS.
P.S. Morgan Freeman: You just lost your job, I refuse to see any movies until after the election.
When will Freeman and others
Submitted by EWRoss on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 3:35pm.
When will Freeman and others understand that it's not Obama's race or skin color people object to, it's his incompetence.
900 Pounds in the Room
Submitted by pmn on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 10:12pm.
Just like Colin Powell, there appears to be a denial defect mechanism in the brain. It was like this with a black chick I dated back in California. Completely unlike the trash who invariably lowered her stock and got her credentials questioned (affirmative action), she could never bring herself to condemning or eschewing it all. The nine hundred pound gorilla in the room was oddly invisible to her. There has got to be something f'd up in your head if you do not see it. There is something f'd up in Freeman's head to place Obama's ineptitude on "racism", the one-size-fits-all top-shelf pejorative. Freeman now goes into the "man-child" category of negro-dom along with Powell.
Freeman
Submitted by luvdogs on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:03pm.
With all due respect Mr. Freeman shut up! I am so sick of this color thing. No one cares what color the President is. His policies are a joke and he is a failure. None of this has to do with his color. Get over yourself already.
Too Bad
Submitted by Jullou on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:06pm.
I thought you were different Morgan. I see that you are a Kool-aid drinker too.
Good bye.
Lost Me Forever
Submitted by ruskynews on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:08pm.
I knew it. I knew Morgan Freeman was racist. I didn't want to believe it because I revere his acting. But I'll never watch him again. In addition to his racism, he's just really dumb.
Morgan, Morgan..
Submitted by greggy on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:14pm.
You're a brilliant, beloved actor - and an erudite, likeable man, skilled at his craft. But this, this is undignified, irrational, and false blathering. You are just plain WRONG. You need to stop, before your reputation and legacy are permanently damaged.
Ask yourself one simple question - if Obama looked the same, sounded the same, acted the same, but was a conservative Republican, who never said that the US Constitution was "fundamentally flawed because it was basically a charter of negative liberties", whose wife hadn't said she'd "never before been proud of her country", who hadn't shoved a bad healthcare bill down the throats of the American people under dubious circumstances, who wasn't trying to force cap and trade legislation on the country that would further harm an already bad economy and increase federal intrusion into our lives, who hadn't bowed to foreign leaders (and mayors), who hadn't waved off American exceptionalism - would the Tea Party be opposing him?
Of course not. Morgan, it ain't about his skin color - it's about the content of his policies and the quality of his leadership. Sooner or later, you need to face up to that.
Why go to movies anymore???
Submitted by ruskynews on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:15pm.
People turn on Obama because of his policies, not his race. Morgan Freeman is the one from the weak and dark underbelly. He should be better than this. To want Obama out of office is a legitimate desire, because his policies are burying America.
Is Freeman dumb, or is he anti-American as well as Obama? What is with these actors that get rich in American, and then call the people who made him rich racists. Huh??? What is with these people!!!
Why do people even go to movies anymore???
MORGAN
Submitted by jetsgiants on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:34pm.
he not 2 bright
Morgan Freeman
Submitted by SueDi on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:39pm.
Morgan, Morgan, Morgan. It really disappoints me when people I (previously) respected and admired say stupid things. Sigh.
Morgan Freeman Is a Typical Racist
Submitted by GBoettner on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:50pm.
Another black man crying racism, YAWN!!!!
These people make me sick, Obie is an inept idiot and all this clown can see is racism.
What a fool.
Obama/Biden.. Now I know why they have a JACKASS for party symbol.
The voice of dog ... speaks!
Submitted by Crash on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:54am.
Mr. Freeman had better stick to written copy.
Obama had better stick with one term or he'll top Carter as the worst president in history. Though he still holds the title as the worst black president (don't blame me I'm not the one who thinks that race/color hold historic value ... WGAF).
MORGAN FREEMAN = WOODY ALLEN
Submitted by xinunus on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:57pm.
DOES ANYONE EVEN REALIZE THAT MORGAN FREEMAN IS SCREWING HIS EX-WIFES GRANDDAUGHTER THAT HE HELPED RAISE AS A CHILD??
HIS EX WIFE DIVORCED HIM ONLY AFTER FINDING OUT THAT THEY WERE SCREWING EACH OTHER. HE WAS SCREWING HIS THEN WIFES GRAND DAUGHTER THAT WAS LIVING WITH THEM AND HE AND HIS WIFE WERE RAISING.
MORGAN FREEMAN IS A SICK PERSON!!
You'll never be Free-man.
Submitted by Red Ruffansore on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 4:55pm.
And all this time I thought you had a fully functioning brain. So sad, back to the liberal plantation Morgan, we'll get you another script for talking points.
Outrageous
Submitted by cobokat on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 5:05pm.
This is why I don't go to the movies anymore. Why would anyone want to support these people that constantly throw out the race card. This is so old and tired.
What a shame
Submitted by clayusmcret on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 5:47pm.
I used to have a great deal of respect for Morgan Freeman. But now we find he's simply another person willing to throw the race card without merit. My money's walking from yet another actor. Shame - I really liked his movies.
Another dig at the Tea Party
Submitted by timbo44 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 6:05pm.
Someone tell Freeman that the Tea Party consists of Independents, Libertarians, Conservatives and Democrats, and I seem to recall a half black President calling a white woman a "pig wearing lipstick" which of course is ok since it was a Liberal who said it. If you agree with the elitist Hollywood Liberals, go see their movies, the first thing I do is look who's in the cast, and they won't get one cent from me if they are on my "no show" list.
AMEN
Submitted by CATHERINE1000 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:12pm.
I haven't seen a Tom Hanks movie since he gave 10,000 to the Impeached Stain's rapist defense fund...........sorry the man got us blown up every 1.5 years and assaulted more women than we can count..............along with Babs Streisand that is when I started voting my pocketbook - I refuse to go to any leftwingnut commie's movies----you are right and guys like used to like like Seinfield - I WOULDN'T CROSS THE STREET FOR AFTER HIS REMARKS AT THE WH - SAME WITH THAT IDIOT PAUL MCARTNEY WHO DIDN'T GRADUATE HIGHSCHOOL TELLING ME OBAMA WAS BRILLIANT AND BUSH WAS DUMB
you actors and singers need to shut up your mouths about our politics because the guys you force on us are destroying our nation - and your guards will NOT BE ABLE TO PROTECT YOU
...............NO MONEY FOR THEM FROM ME........it has been a great policy and the movies are crap anymore.................so nothing lost
catherine
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-orlando/the-incredible-shrinking-p...It pains me, but "Trhough the Wormhole" is off my watch list
Submitted by gopcongress on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 6:30pm.
It really saddens me to see Morgan Freeman, who heretofore had never really displayed his irrational partisanship in this manner, call Mitch McConnel a racist. This is beyond the pale. What really makes me angry is that now I cannot separate the actor from the character. I used to be able to watch Shawshank Redemption even though I knew Tim Robbins was a flake. But I had always viewed Freeman with more respect...until this diatribe.
Even though I like space and physics programs, and was originally jazzed that Morgan Freeman, a favorite actor of mine, was the host, I had watched most episodes. Now I cannot watch anything with him in it. Yes, I know that most actors are leftist communists, but for the most part, the good actors kept their activism secondary to their acting (Harrison Ford, Don Rickles, and Betty White come to mind).
But when someone comes out and plays the race card with such venom, Freeman is probably going to experience an incredible backlash that he did not see coming. 40% of America holds Tea Party values, and for Freeman to essentially dis almost half his audience is very disconcerting.
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actors
Submitted by mack46 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:02pm.
Who cares what any actor thinks? Even those who are not drug addled perverts (an apparent minority) are totally self absorbed and loosely connected to reality. I don't have to like them to enjoy their work.
You do bring a good point...
Submitted by gopcongress on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:11pm.
You do bring a good point, but my enjoyment value in watching, listening to, or otherwise taking in an artistic production is not completely objective in itself. The character of the creators or participants in said productions also adds or subtracts from my enjoyment value. For instance, I cannot listen to Springsteen because of his hatred for people who hold conservative values (Barbra Streisand as well), I cannot watch anything with OJ Simpson, Danny Glover, or Sean Penn in it, or I can't even sing Amazing Grace in church because it was written by a child rapist.
Call it irrational on my part, and I agree to a certain point. For instance, if I buy a product in a store I'm probably buying the work of many people whom I would loathe if I knew of their public personas. But when it comes to specific acts of creativity, as in the arts, I cannot separate the actor from the character, or the creator from the product. Morgan Freeman crossed that line for me.
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Racism?
Submitted by GerryC on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 6:47pm.
Everyone has done a great job of calling Freeman out here, so I will only add this.
Isn't it racism when the president stands on bridges, telling America to "pass this bill" (even though it has not even been written and presented to congress yet) to fix these rotten bridges, when these bridges were mostly built by white people? How dare he criticize white bridge builders? It has to be racism. (Sarcasm)
racism
Submitted by mack46 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 6:58pm.
Remember, Obama's half white. He probably doesn't like himself either.
And Moochelle apparently doesn't either.
Submitted by Virginia Pappy on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:30pm.
When married couples don't get along or in fact, despise one another, they will always find a reason to take seperate vehicles to any function.
But, when you mode of transport is a tax supported Boeing 757 with flight crew, USAF fighter escort and seperate Secret Service detachments......you need to suck it up, Chelle!!!! You on my dime, Sistah!
What rotten Bridges
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:20pm.
Some one would like to know,,,,,, this is a whoot!
well yeah
Submitted by kata on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:27pm.
No one told Obama was structurally deficient actually meant.
racism
Submitted by mack46 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 6:56pm.
I never said get the black man out of here. I have said, get the a-hole out of here. Black guys who are not a-holes are fine with me. Like Colin Powell, or Herman Cain, for example. Obama is the ideological twin of John Kerry, white bread as can be, but another a-hole. I'd want him out of there if he'd been elected.
The "racist" population of this country elected Obama, but rejected Kerry. Go figure.
The only thng I see
Submitted by Ken James on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:03pm.
when I see Obama is gross incompetence. I am more enraged at the MSM and all the fools who voted for this inexperienced naarcissist than I am with the narcissist himself. He's was just enjoying the ride, but I really think he wants to get off now.
racist pig
Submitted by CATHERINE1000 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:07pm.
listen you racist pig - we want the freak outta here cause he is AN IGNORANT AND ARROGANT DESTROYER OF AMERICA - he is HALF WHITE...............you racist...........he is an incompetent - we don't care what color the incompetent guy is........
America voted for your idiot because you called anyone that didn't think the community organizing thug was QUALIFIED FOR THE BIGGEST JOB IN THE WORLD A RACIST...............SO THE WHITE GUILT GUYS VOTED FOR THE INCOMPETENT BOOB
NOW THEY ARE UNEMPLOYED, BROKE OR DEAD IN THE WAR..................HE IS ONE AND DONE
MORGAN YOU RACIST - THERE ARE MILLIONS OF INTELLIGENT BLACK MEN IN AMERICA - YOU IDIOT LEFTWINGNUT SOCIALISTS PICKED THE IDIOT IN THE STACK....................sorry for you but the more you 'blacks' and libtards bash us for hating your nut - THE MORE OF US WILL VOTE FOR 'ANYBODY BUT OBAMA'
YOU BLACKS AND YOUR HATE ARE WHAT IS DESTROYING RACE RELATIONS, not people who now hate the horrible destruction...............you demand no quality and intelligence, you ONLY SEE A COLOR - HE IS HALF WHITE AND HALF BLACK BUT YOU BLAME THE BLACK - YOU ARE THE RACIST
you bash while America is dying.........
catherine
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-orlando/the-incredible-shrinking-p...o.O
Submitted by kata on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:10pm.
caps lock abuse... among other things.
And her bio
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:24pm.
says she's a writer?
this NB article
Submitted by kata on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:40pm.
has a Drudge link.
Yes, I read it.
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:49pm.
She saved her good stuff for her link, IMHO.
Catherine 1000
Submitted by tnmccoy on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:01pm.
Catherine dump your high caffeine drinks---immediately! Stop yelling! And tone down your rhetoric so we can understand your point. Right now, people are passing over your comment to read others. Slow down, my friend. TN
Catherine, thank you for your
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 3:34pm.
Catherine, thank you for your service! Jet mech - my roomie was one of those!
Ronald Reagan
Tough Lick to the Head in that Car Wreck Huh, Morgan?!?!
Submitted by Virginia Pappy on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:13pm.
I'll bet the producers of that dolphin movie are tickled to death with your stupid butt tonight.
You could have saved me a WHOLE LOTTA money if you'd let me know years ago what a left wing racist you are. I don't mind a black man being in the White House, in fact I'm supporting Herman Cain (Whose stock just went up cause of you.) I just don't want a black Communist sitting in the White House.
I've always wanted to be an actor. So why don't we pretend I'm a porpoise, and you attach your lips to my butt and watch me swim away from you forever, MORGAN!!!!
Pay attention Morgan
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:34pm.
FREEMAN: Mitch McConnell. 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.”
We want him gone, because he is screwing the country up, and screwing us in particular. So get the heck off of your racist bandwagon. We didnt like Clinton or Carter any better, last I looked they are white.
BTW, how come the black panthers get a pass from our DOJ, is it because their black?
Also, I dont think Mitch has supported the Tea Party much if at all
Anytime you disagree with the left they call you a racist
Submitted by Student1776 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:41pm.
Accusations of racism are the last refuge of the incompetent. Instead of countering the objections to Obama's socialism, the leftist fools just call people names. More than 2000 years ago Aristotle identified the ad hominem attack (calling people names) as a logical fallacy, inherently a failure of reasoning. It still is.
I always liked Feeman as an
Submitted by Davart on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:02pm.
I always liked Feeman as an actor... guess I need to rethink that since clearly he is a guy that wakes up black first and not American.Sick of that attitude with people that put their race first and their country second.
The Angry White Guy Blog
Criticising Morgan Freeman
Submitted by meesterbig on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:12pm.
Anyone who criticizes Morgan Freeman for attacking the Tea Party Conservatives while defending Obama simply must be a racist.
RACE & RACISM!
Submitted by anontdh on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:17pm.
Race and racism: barriers and bridges
byDenise Oliver Velez
Anti-racism, Dreamstime
The United States is a country symbolically founded on the ideas of liberty and justice for all. Yet it is also founded on the practice of ethnocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of African peoples and their descendents, the removal of Spanish speaking citizens and a harsh and unjust policy to Asians—including exclusion acts.
And so hand-in-hand with its ideals inscribed in the Constitution and other documents, racism is deeply etched in both our roots and current conditions. One nation, divided by racism, with liberty for some, and injustice for many.
I do not plan to discuss classism, genderism or homophobia today—but racism has intersections with them all.
We the people have not been able to eradicate it. That does not either negate or deprecate efforts since the founding of our nation to do so. It is a long struggle, and one, at my age of 64, I won't see the end of.
We are all affected by racism, whether or not we know it.
I often think of words written by Buffy Sainte Marie, Cree Nation folksinger activist, in her seminal work "My Country Tis of Thy People You're Dying," in which she ends the song on the plaintive note:
Hands on our hearts we salute you your victory,
Choke on your blue white and scarlet hypocrisy
Pitying the blindness that you've never seen
That the eagles of war whose wings lent you glory
They were never no more than carrion crows,
Pushed the wrens from their nest, stole their eggs, changed their story;
The mockingbird sings it, it's all that he knows.
"Ah what can I do?" say a powerless few
With a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye --
Can't you see that their poverty's profiting you.
My country 'tis of thy people you're dying.
Until we can all see how racism profits the few and cripples, demeans and impoverishes the many, it will continue to be the most divisive tool in the arsenal of the powerful. Whether or not you personally have ever said anything racist, thought anything racist, participated in maintaining it structurally—you have a responsibility to fight it politically, legislatively, socially, at work, in school, in your neighborhoods and communities, with friends and neighbors and most importantly, in the home, with your family.
Often, we are uncomfortable with this. We stumble, we talk at cross purposes, we point fingers, we excuse, we deny, we ignore or bristle. The end result is that we don't move forward. Often, we see it only as an issue of black versus white. It isn't.
We have to root it out of the rainbow. If it festers in any nook or cranny of the body politic, we wind up with national gangrene.
When I was much younger, I was a member of a movement spearheaded by a young man in the Black Panther Party named Fred Hampton. He organized in Chicago a coming together of disparate groups of many colors, dubbing it "The Rainbow Coalition."
This movement is currently being documented by filmmaker Ray Santisteban.
Rainbow Coalition
RAINBOW COALITION charts the history and legacy of a groundbreaking multi-ethnic coalition that rocked Chicago in the 1960s and forever altered the political landscape of the United States. Comprised of activists from the Black Panthers, the Young Patriots, Rising up Angry, and the Young Lords, Chicago’s Rainbow Coalition (1969-1972) united poor African Americans, whites, and Latinos to openly challenge Mayor Richard Daley’s political machine and protest substandard housing in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America.
What began as a drive to achieve a voice for poor communities quickly grew into a formidable political movement, attracting the support of other disenfranchised groups and the attention of a threatened Chicago political machine determined to destroy it.
Told through rare archival footage and the personal stories of its members and contemporary political leaders, this one-hour documentary recounts the dramatic history of the Rainbow Coalition which collapsed after the assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton and considers its significant impact on the political platforms and future voter outreach campaigns of Chicago politicians like Mayor Harold Washington, Congressman Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson, Sr., and President Barack Obama.
A thought-provoking film that sparks new dialogue about the legacy of the 1960s, RAINBOW COALITION considers how young activists today can work together to confront the problems facing their diverse communities.
That Rainbow Coalition grew and embraced radical and leftist groups across the U.S., involving AIM (American Indian Movement), I Wor Kuen (Chinese Americans) and the Brown Berets (Chicanos). Later, Jesse Jackson borrowed it as the symbol for Rainbow-Push. LGBT groups also used the rainbow in their symbolic flag.
We now sit in a symbolic "Big Tent" of the Democratic Party. Where once the Republican Party embraced a multi-racial message, that Party is no more, now dominated by groups of tea partiers who want to white it out and take "their country back." But it isn't their country—they are simply one part of it, and as long as they reject the rainbow, we will reject their warped vision for our future.
But they are not alone in being warped. We too have been affected and infected. We too are often confused about how to build bridges and cross over the rigid lines of "race" and ethnicity, and to root out the dis-ease within ourselves.
We don't get it right much of the time. Anger, rage, guilt, carelessness, talking at each other rather than to each other, and a failure to listen are roadblocks along the way.
Each time we fail, it behooves us to try again, and to keep trying to get it right.
Our future depends on it.
As we sit, together, under the big tent, fractious, and very divided at times, I wonder what we each must do to bridge these divisions. I don't have the answer, but perhaps we each have a piece of it. The question is, are we each willing to meld our piece with another's, to forge a solid enough block to move forward?
Are we going to see that rainbow? Or do we each sit in our own corners, nursing our own little piece of the pie?
Much has been made of racism—those who see it and those who don't and those who avoid what often becomes an obstreperous battle, so they duck out. What complicates the issue is that for the first time in American history, we have a black American man as the leader of our party. We don't really know how to deal with it. "Firsts" by definition are new, with new expectations and new language. They are also uncomfortable. We are comfortable with the idea of black leaders of movements. We all acknowledge "civil rights" and doubtful anyone in this tent denies, or rejects or avoids embracing that legacy. No one here, I think, finds it odd that certain elected officials, especially those from districts with large populations of voters of color, are legitimate in that representation. But those elected officials are not the president.
None of us will deny that there is a large sub-section of the populace who vociferously refuses to accept the right of a duly-elected black man to live in the White House with a black wife and children. Many of those deniers sit in Congress.
But that is a far cry from where we, in the Democratic Party and on the left, are today with this brand new quandary. We all tend to react differently to this phenomenon, based on a point of view we bring with us into the tent.
There has been heated discussion about how and why we support and/or criticize this man, in this position, and rarely is there unanimity. In some cases, there has been flaming hostility.
I don't find that odd. If we had predicted it a few years ago, we might have mitigated a bit of the impact. But frankly, no one predicted it. From the perspective of many African-Americans (along with others), it was something that would never, and could never, happen in our lifetimes.
It.just.wasn't.possible.
But it happened, and we were amazed, tearful, shocked, elated and fearful—all at once.
Imagine that. For me (and many others), only three generations removed from slavery, it was overwhelming. I still pinch myself and wait for the other shoe to drop.
This has nothing to do with my own very leftist politics. This has nothing to do with my political positions on capitalism (I don't forget that every other president was the symbolic leader of global capital and U.S. dominion). I've had this conversation with my long-time comrades and members of that old rainbow coalition. Surprisingly, a majority of them also pulled the lever for Barack Obama, notwithstanding their own agendas for social change.
I do know that his singular election was a major crack in the wall of American racism, and I wanted to apply my chisel to widening the chink in the wall. I will do so again in 2012. As will my former comrades, some of whom are harsh critics of legislative and administration policies.Not one of us is willing to backslide into the hell of a Perry or Romney presidency. Been there, done that with shrub Bush.
The fact that Jimmy Carter was only a one-term president didn't really make a difference to anyone concerned with fighting racism. I liked Jimmy Carter, since I lived in DC at the time, and watched him enroll Amy in a black public school. But when he lost, no white American felt that his loss was an affront to them, nor did they feel that it was symbolic of failure. Black folks simply got up to face yet another day living with another president. Doubtful anyone on the right wept over Bush Senior's loss either. He was replaced with yet another white White House occupant. As per usual. We were pleased, because yes, he was a Democrat. And no, he was not America's first black one.
What is often critiqued, questioned, disparaged about many African Americans and other "minority" groups is their dogged and allegedly "uncritical" support of the Obama presidency, and advocacy for his second term. Notwithstanding the fact that we have been a solid part of the big tent base for many years, and voted in equal measure for those white Democrats who won or lost. But we didn't mourn those losses personally, nor did we weep with collective joy at victory.
Tears of joy
Only three generations after slavery, for some if us, we wept at images from Grant Park on election night, and no one is going to get in our way in pursuit of a repeat in 2012. Because it will become our collective failure if we allow the crack in the foundation to re-seal itself.
We grabbed a rainbow—not just policy, not just legislation, not even our own economic conditions became primary. It has changed history, and we want to keep the book open, including many of us who ultimately want to see another system in place in the future.
Since this issue of historical racism vis-a-vis the presidency often sucks up all the air in the room in our efforts to change systemic power, it masks the real problems that we fail to address.
Let me give you an example. As part of the Rainbow Coalition, I worked in the Puerto Rican community as a member of the Young Lords Party, whose history has just been reissued in a photo essay by Michael Abramson with introduction by Iris Morales, and narratives from party members.
Palante, Michael Abramson
What was of major importance, as the cover photo illustrates, was that the YLP took the first major step to address racism in the Puerto Rican community. Young Puerto Ricans embraced afro-hairstyles and their mixed African-Taino heritage for the first time. We did political education in the community to root out deeply embedded racism, and the effects of that education are still with us. Did we defeat it? No, but we made major inroads.
No coincidence that some of the key organizers for SEIU-1199 today are graduates of the Young Lords. They are still organizing, still educating about racism, and they are working for the re-election of Barack Obama, while continuing to fight for progressive social change.
Three days ago I had visitors on my farm. Two dear friends who are married to each other—one a former Young Lord, and one a former Panther, both doing critical organizing work for SEIU. They wanted to talk about what they are facing today. Some of the news was bad, and some was good. They reported that they had just lost a battle to unionize a hospital. "What defeated the vote?" I asked. My sister-in-struggle replied "racism" and as she sat, with her head bowed in her hands, she looked up at me and said, "Denise, I was so angry. Our own people, Latinos, especially some of the older ones, just won't deal with a union that supports a prieto [black man]. We have more work to do. The same thing happened in Texas, where we ran into people who gladly voted for Hillary simply because she was white." Her husband concurred. "However," she continued, "there was good news in Florida. We met young Cubans, who have broken with the extremist anti-Castroism of their parents, and also discarded the racism that splits Cubans from Puerto Ricans, Haitians and African Americans. We are working to build that coalition." We talked about strategies, and the need for more organizers who can become human bridges. They left to head home—and that discussion prompted me to write this today.
young SEIU activists
The young people in union movements like this one, and the multi-racial coalition of groups like the Dreamers, or the Domestic Worker Alliance, are forging ties that fight both racism and exploitation. Multi-ethnic student groups on the nation's campuses are part of that new coalition as well.
We still need to address divisions within groups who are often lumped together as demographic categories. I spend a lot of time exploring, probing and educating between and among Haitians, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans—and there is a strong component of racism in those divisions. I cannot speak to racism(s) in the Asian community. Perhaps someone will read this who is qualified to do so. I have written about Islamophobia and anti-Arabism—yet another facet in the fractured unity we seek but have not found.
I've written this today from one person's perspective. I speak for myself. As a black Spanish-speaking woman who grew up in a multi-racial family, who went to Hebrew school as a kid, who has Muslim family members, who embraces a flexible sexuality, and who has hair streaked with gray, I represent multiple perspectives within myself. I suppose I was destined to become a cultural anthropologist. My perspectives on cultural relativism inform my goals. To educate, to organize, and to fight racism and division in all their forms. I try to be a bridge builder. To cross borders and boundaries. I don't always succeed, but I have more victories than failures.
I'm uncomfortable a lot of the time. Fine. I'll stick with my sig line.
"If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition." Bernice Johnson Reagon
We've got work to do.
Let's do it.
Hey anontdh
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:21pm.
WHY BLAME ISLAM? Because they are the ones strapping bombs to themselves and flying planes into buildings.
Go sing about unicorns and rainbows in Iran, see how far that gets you.
Go Ms Rad*
Submitted by cajun2 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:24pm.
Threw that brick right where it hurts...LOL
After reading the following---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:41pm.
"As a black Spanish-speaking woman who grew up in a multi-racial family, who went to Hebrew school as a kid, who has Muslim family members, who embraces a flexible sexuality, and who has hair streaked with gray, I represent multiple perspectives within myself." ---
I do believe she meant to write "-- I represent multiple personalities within mysefl."
MD
Reminds me.....
Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 9:03pm.
of a saying my grandfather used to tell us as kids whenever he saw or heard democrats on the TV back in the Kennedy Johnson Nixon era and it totally applies to today and it goes something like this:
" Conservatives get wealthy while working in the private sector and then run for office when they've accomplished what they can in business, on the other hand Democrats accomplish nothing, get out of 10 years of college and then run for office to get rich and still accomplish nothing but feather their own nests..
Nothing's changed, NADA, yet in the mind of liberal minions, they think it's the total opposite and they couldn't be more wrong about anything and all the Dem lifers in politics from the white house to congress prove it.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. –Albert Einstein My Twitter
Chicagoray40......Your grandfather was a very wise man.
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:41pm.
Perhaps if liberals had listened more to their grandparents, we wouldn't be in this mess.
good one
Submitted by ruskynews on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:35pm.
So true! So true...
Why Blame Islam!?!?!?!?!?
Submitted by Virginia Pappy on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 9:16pm.
In the words of the great Mississippi Philosopher and Orator, Jerry Clower, "Lady, it is apparent in listening to you, that you have been educated well beyond your intelligence."
Holy Muhammad and his 12 year
Submitted by Lusty Infant on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 10:06pm.
Holy Muhammad and his 12 year old wife! What a bunch of hot hooey! You have obviously wasted your time studying this crap. Please get a real job if you can find one in this racist economy. Dubaggers criticizing teabaggers. What a hoot.
You owe NB's a
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 10:05pm.
Donation, for that chunk of spam!
anontdh
Submitted by tnmccoy on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:14pm.
Hey friend, your writing belongs on a blog, not the comment section. Besides, you are disjointed and vague and rambling in your writing. Condense your thoughts into a few short sentences. That's what a comments section is for!
Interesting. So to distill it
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 3:59pm.
Interesting. So to distill it down, are you saying that the left is comprised of a coalition of peoples who hate one another? But they must band together to destroy the ones {whites} they hate even *more* ?
You know, those scary {white} people who realize they don't know all the answers, so they look outside of themselves for them. Who believe people are people, not some hyphenated multi-culti stew, and that those people ARE capable of attaining their goals without some form of gov't. equalizer. Who pay more attention to actions than to rhetoric.
Yet WE {whites} are the haters?
Ronald Reagan
Whoa! This nimrod hears
Submitted by jerseydevel on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:22pm.
Whoa! This nimrod hears himself bad-mouthing his bobble-headed rev. j wright worshiping racist hero and whoops!
Internal monologue "Self? Bite your tongue - self!"
The great sage-tool somehow recognizes his less than god-worship words and abruptly shifts the blame to the right. Oh the faux rightous and great plastic sage morgan freeman. In the first breath "Yes this is racism!" Curious that they never EVER seem to be able to acknowledge mommy's utter whiteness. And before the second foot drops "the USA is better than that." What? Seriously? Did you not just hear yourself??? No thanks to useful-idiot emotional dropouts like you in hollywood still whoring that leftist ideology. At least go get your GED.
Tis better to keep your mouth shut and let others believe you the fool, then to open it and remove all doubt.
So now the Presidential
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:37pm.
So now the Presidential election itself is racist because the opposition party will run a candidate against obama.
Wow, clever! Nice! I concur
Submitted by jerseydevel on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:46pm.
Wow, clever! Nice! I concur - yes. That sounds about accurate right-on-the-mark for the toadie left logic train.
Correct
Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:56pm.
That about covers it. Even challenging him is racist in their demented worlds. They ran him with this narrative in mind knowing he wasn't eligible in the first place and now their doubling down. Wait til he loses.
Barry: "I think I was not elected because of rampant tea party racism scared everyone into voting republican" I can just hear and read the re direct bullspit now...
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. –Albert Einstein My Twitter
Do these people ever run out of race cards?
Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 8:53pm.
Guy makes millions and millions, is adulated and given the freaking "you've come so far" African American treatment everywhere he freaking goes and he's still crying like he worked the fields yesterday. I'm so sick of this feigned racism because it exists more in the black community against whites than vice versa and I'm freaking tired of their whining.
These people today don't even know what real racism is and they're all (and I say all because even rich ones like this guy are looking for it too) looking for a big government payoff promised to them by black 'shyster' leaders and the day they get it is the day I leave this country for good. Where to go I don't know, but I won't pay ransom to them for something I you or our families never did. NEVER.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. –Albert Einstein My Twitter
Another Moon-Bat
Submitted by bucknaked2k on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 9:27pm.
"Well, it just shows the weak, dark, underside of America. We’re supposed to be better than that....."
Oh really? People who want a return to fiscal responsibility & accountability, and a more constitutional form of limited government are the dark underside of America???
His strong undertones of racism are laughable. Here you have a group of concerned, responsible, hard-working Americans fed up by the leftward dive this country has taken, (who would get behind Herman Cain 100% if he became the nominee), are now painted as a "dark underside" of racists, Klansmen, and thugs.
Open your eyes Morgan Freeman and JOIN US my friend! It is the backward Socialist thinking that you've expressed above which has placed our country us in this dire predicament.
Very Well Said
Submitted by Jullou on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:49am.
We need to read more of your posts. You worded that wonderfully!!!
Well, he's right about one
Submitted by cajuncocoa on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 9:33pm.
Well, he's right about one thing: Obama HAS made racism worse, and it's something I predicted in early 2008 when his surrogates were playing the race card over everything. That said, I've yet to hear ANYONE say that they want to do "whatever [they] can to get this BLACK man outta here"...most people who oppose him have no problem articulating the ISSUES on which they base their disagreement. The only people who are hearing anything racial about opposition to Obama tend to be black themselves.
No Logic
Submitted by Jullou on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:59am.
My conservative friends, we continue to try to understand the lack of logic regarding liberals like Morgan. We bend over backward trying to explain to them the suffering that Obama has caused us, and they don't care. All they care about is growing government. There is only one explaination: these people are at the minimum socialists if not Marxists or Communists. Don't forget that many actors have admitted that they are one or all of the above. They think this is the norm and that we are the odd balls. We and conservative commentators have to admit this is what they are before we can counter this.
Morgan says he would vote for the Kenyan boy king 1,000 times.
Submitted by Lusty Infant on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 9:57pm.
Holy Muhammad and his 12 year old wife! Morgan Freeman says he would vote for Obama, the Kenyan boy king, 1,000 times. Well I think that is cheap. Why would you pick such a low number? If Morgan lived in The Big Windy he could vote for Obammy more than 1,000 times if he wanted to. Show your pissed off loyalty in a mature fashion by choosing a high number. Let's show Morgan Freeman our dedication to a leader we can really get behind (would someone please call the boy king to the front so we can follow him). Oh, he is on vacation? No kidding, a mulligan? OK, as soon as he returns, we are going to get behind him big time.
I think Morgan's brain was
Submitted by pac70 on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 10:48pm.
I think Morgan's brain was affected during his stint on sesame street. BTW Morgan elect Herman Cain and you can have your black man in the WH again only this time it will be a man of principle, integrity and intelligence. AND, he speaks w/o benefit of a teleprompter.
Race Pimp
Submitted by WestHoustonGeo on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 12:26am.
I take back all my previous admiration of Morgan Freeman's talent. Truth is, he is another race pimp, intent on squealing victimhood. Shove it, jackass.
Where's the evidence?
Submitted by Principlex on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:00am.
Morgan is blowin' smoke. He's scared to death and showing it. One of the reasons is that the Democrats have completely destroyed the power of calling anybody a racist. I and the people I know are concerned about the country from the standpoint of individual rights and liberty. This government is rapacious and in the process of enslaving us all with debt and regulations of every kind and stripe. (And when I say that, I can say that Bush did it too. I'm not interested in parties nor races here.)
Why doesn't Morgan address real problems? Rather he tries to pull a guilt trip ("we are better than that") and then accuse people of thinking race first before any other issue. What baloney. Being called a racist nowadays is about as scary as washing dishes. My question is "What else you got?" Further, he's doing damage to that thoughtful, wizened persona that he's created and which I've always liked.
Hey Morgan!
Submitted by Cleary on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:43am.
Mr. Freeman,
I used to admire you. I thought you were a stand-up American. Not a "black" American. Just an American. Same as me. I don't consider myself a "white" American. Just an American.
But you screwed up. You have made it clear that you believe in race and worse, in race politics. Not good.
If I'm such a racist, why do I like Herman Cain. Why did I like you? Why do I like J.C. Watts and William Armstrong. All fine Americans. You are no longer a fine American in my book. You are now a hyphenated American, and like all hyphenated Americans who put their ethnicity and race and religion IN FRONT OF the word American, that makes you a second class citizen. You self-select your second class citizenship, Mr. Freeman.
I will gladly shake hands with pretty much any American. I will spit on the hands of someone who idiotically and cynically puts their ad-hoc traits (race, religion, height, weight, sex, orientation, ad nauseum) in front of the word American.
So what about it, Mr. Freeman? Will you shake my hand or should I spit on yours?
One of the greatest
Submitted by AR72 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:56am.
Morgan Freeman is one of the greatest actors of this era. He can make you believe that he actually is a sane and rational human being.
True. But we're only
Submitted by endiana on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 6:32am.
True.
But we're only prejudice against blacks who are liberals.
A black man from Hollywood
Submitted by Karcarius on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 6:55am.
A black man from Hollywood screaming racism?Say it isn't so.Like most liberals,he has no basis for these accusations.You know,liberals say that if you don't agree with Obama then you are a racist.I guess,if you use that same logic,the black people that didn't vote for or agree with Bush must have done so because they were racist also.
let's hope Freeman doesn't speak for the majority of blacks
Submitted by johninlongmont on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 7:40am.
this is just seeing racism where it is not there...Conservatives oppose obama on his politics and not his skin color...obamacare is the major factor crippling American business right now...apologizing for America everywhere you go hurts our National character...America is slipping away as the leader of the world, and we can lay most of that at obama's feet...race has nothing to do with it
diaappointed
Submitted by kinijane on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 8:06am.
I thought he had more intelligence than that, he played a race card and never even considered that we might not like his
policies, the way most blacks think, its all about poor little me.
Morgan. I don't hate you
Submitted by Hollywood Hick on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 8:35am.
Morgan. I don't hate you because you're black. You are one of my all-time favorite actors. I also love Herman Cain - and if given the opportunity I'll vote for him. It's not the man - it's his philosophy and character. Didn't MLK say he looked forward to the day a man was judged "not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character."? He did. And Obama is being judged on the content of his character. As are you. As I hope I am. For you to insinuate otherwise is to perpetuate racism. You are judging white people on the color of their skin, in belief that all white people are incapable of following MLK's advice. It would be great if you could live up to the same standards as those in the Tea Party.
Sure Morgan
Submitted by boozy on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 9:06am.
The first place blacks run to is the race card....It could not be the fact that this is an idiot in the whitehouse and is destroying this nation one day at a time...or it could not be that he is a Marxist.Socialist who does not share True American Values.....Also Morgan...maybe sometime you need to go to a TeaParty event and get educated...First off, you will notice that a boat load of the people are VietNam era participants, along with a good amount of very young people who truly care about the way this nation is being brought down. So, you can take your opinions, which by the way pretty much mirror Al Sharptons, Jesse Highjackson, Maxine Waters, Crooked as a snake Charlie Rangels and stick with them, or educate yourself as to the true meaning of what it means to be an American.....
Sure Morgan
Submitted by boozy on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 9:06am.
The first place blacks run to is the race card....It could not be the fact that this is an idiot in the whitehouse and is destroying this nation one day at a time...or it could not be that he is a Marxist.Socialist who does not share True American Values.....Also Morgan...maybe sometime you need to go to a TeaParty event and get educated...First off, you will notice that a boat load of the people are VietNam era participants, along with a good amount of very young people who truly care about the way this nation is being brought down. So, you can take your opinions, which by the way pretty much mirror Al Sharptons, Jesse Highjackson, Maxine Waters, Crooked as a snake Charlie Rangels and stick with them, or educate yourself as to the true meaning of what it means to be an American.....
Another Airhead Actor
Submitted by DaMama on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 9:24am.
Freeman's comments continue to prove that being famous for pretending to be someone else for a living does not make one politically astute.
Freeman and other like him (Maxine Waters, the CBC) are the ones who are blinded by race. They cannot see anyone opposing a black man or woman as anything but a racist. They don't care about character, experience, or morals. All they see is the color of a person's skin.
That goes against everything Martin Luther King Jr. preached and stood for. Freeman may be a great actor, but politically speaking, he is an ignorant fool.
Morgan Freeman=Useful Idiot
Submitted by passingruffian on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 9:28am.
Morgan Freeman=Useful Idiot
Satan Plays God Too
Submitted by KalihiwaiBeach on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 10:09am.
Morgan Freeman - great actor, terrible citizen
Morgan Freeman's Auto Accident
Submitted by Edditor on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:05am.
He was badly injured several years ago in an auto accident and apparently the injuries included losing his sense of reasoning. Mr. Obama, first of all, is not black, he is black AND white and I feel slighted that Mr. Freeman acts in a racist way and refuses to admit to Mr. Obama's whiteness. The train wreck, Obamanomics, has arrived at the station, those who stayed on the train drank the Kool-Aid. The Tea Party did not create the situation ......and did not book for the entire ride, got off the train .....because it is a disaster. The people of the Tea Party (of all colors) began to demonstrate in April TWO YEARS ago based on outrageous spending of the Democratic Party and this Administration....They worry and concerns were correct, we are on the brink of bankruptcy. (But maybe Mr. Freeman lost his ability to do math as a result of the auto wreck?)
Persons of color need to use common sense and realize that the stupidity of the Obama Admininstration has nothing yto do with race, it has everything to do with lack of good judgement, reasonable business practices and management experience.
FREEMAN: “Screw the country.
Submitted by CM on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:20am.
So Bill Clinton is black?Freeman seeing color before anything else
Submitted by GiveMeABreak on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:23pm.
I guess according to Morgan Freeman he is. Strange.
Research
Submitted by Jullou on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:49am.
Morgan: What you leftists do when you make statements to advance socialism in America, is we tend to do research on you. Yes, that's right......with a click our mouse we can find out much. I really didn't know you were living with your step grand daughter until now. I'm sure that is something you want to hide. So now we are really on to you. Too bad. Also, too bad about all the woman in your life that you have used. Well, I guess they eventually get money out of the deal.
TEA Party and MLK are Racists
Submitted by Gazinya on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:16pm.
It would appear that the TEA Party would like to judge a person by 'the content of their character, not the color of their skin'. So did MLK. I think people like Freeman can't believe that The Obama is 'just not into them.'
How did Freeman become wealthy?
Submitted by ruskynews on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:45pm.
Freeman thinks he became wealthy on his own. He has talent, but it took acceptance and appreciation from his audience to have become so famous and wealthy. On a side note, if we pay attention to what young Hollywood stars say, we find them to be leftist ideologues, e.g. Matt Damon, Michael Hall (Dexter), Leonardo DiCaprio, etc. It really helps in Hollywood to have leftist credentials. WHY???
Which is more important?
Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 1:55pm.
Overlook politics over talent or talent over politics? IMO, Freeman turned in a great performance in Clint Eastwood's 'Million Dollar Baby". So if Eastwood can overlook the fact that Freeman is a nucklehead, then so can I. (Eastwood isn't a liberal is he?)
A pathological need for ignoramus actors to run off at the mouth
Submitted by Biff Ulysses on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 2:57pm.
Ahh, too bad. I used to like Morgan Freeman, thought him a pretty good character-actor, and it seemed to me he generally kept quiet about his politics, which is always a plus for any actor.
Now I just think he's another loudmouthed know-nothing racist useful-idiot liberal bigot spouting last year's MSNBC / NY Times "talking points" -- either that or just plain nuts.
Morgan Freeman rants
Submitted by tnmccoy on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:30pm.
Morgan, your head is in the typical Liberal racist sand! We, as Republicans will do everything we can to unseat that MAN. His being black has nothing to do with it and you know it. How you can defend any person only interested in a being Presidential perk receiver, is beyond me. Your persona is now bunched with the celebrity ranters like Martin Sheen and son, Alec Baldwin, Sheryl Crowe, Jane Fonda, Ted Turner, George Soros and Tom Cruise---among others. Are you so completely stupid as to miss who the real racists are? They are people like you, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Chuck Schumer, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, Obama and Liberals/Democrats in general. Obama is destroying jobs. Who do you think that hurts? Obama, Reid and Company are bankrupting us. Who do you think that hurts? How many employees do you have? How many unemployed friends and neighbors do you have? And I'm not talking about actors or other leeches in the 'entertainment' industry. I mean real white and blue collar people who actually work for a living, once again not those play acting like you do for outrageous earnings. This Country is in serious trouble, and Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Frank, and Dodd are leading the destroyers. People like you prevent the majority that we are from stopping the bleeding. Obama and Company need to go. And you and your fellow leeches can easily cut your salaries in half with the requirement that movie entrance fees be cut to a reasonable amount---a few bucks. So, quit your inane ramblings and rants, pick up your friends and neighbors, and help us get out of this mess. Trying having a sane thought without a cue card.
BTW, Piers Morgan is a failed interviewer. He doesn't know the subject, he's a prejudiced and airhead Liberal, and it's a joke to have him interviewing anyone.
Morgan Freeman
Submitted by GiveMeABreak on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:20pm.
I love Morgan Freeman, but he couldn't be more wrong. America is sick of the race card being flipped out. Face facts, we voted Obama in...didn't matter to us what color he was, or is, we had faith in him, we had high hopes. And he blew it - big time. Now, it still doesn't matter what color he is, what he is, is the worst president ever elected. Black people, white people...doesn't matter. We expected more. We got less. And now we want somebody different. And again, color matters not at all. We just want someone effective and able to lead this country in the right direction! Obama has proven he isn't the one we need.
Reverse racism at warp speed, to foist marxism on us.
Submitted by TymTrvlr on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:33pm.
I used to think Freeman was a respectable individual. This whole obama race thing is totally about the taxpaying producers having to cough up more money to keep the parasites in a life style they now believe they deserve. Defund marxism, let them go hungry, eventually they will realize they have to work for a living, and yes, possibly do jobs that they think they are too good to do.
I guess we are all racists now! Did'nt realize marxism was a race, but the blacks have now turned it into one, so I guess I am a racist, as I do not believe in marxism, it is a philosophy to be eradicated in my lifetime, thrown on the burning dung heap of history. marxism has destroyed more countries and people than Christianity.
The communist have preached for years ( since the 1940s ) they would take over the USA by using the blacks, I just didn't realize they would use them to bankrupt the country with welfare systems.
obama has worked diligently to divide the country racially, philosophocally, and by economic class.
Morgan Freeman-Clueless.
Submitted by cybergeezer on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 4:34pm.
This just proves that racism will never die with spokesmen like him, Barrack, and Michelle being given all these token positions to alleviate discrimination.
When there is an intelligent spokesman speaking out, without invoking racism, they vilify him without even listening.
They want racism; Need racism; It's their only identity.
Race and racism: barriers and bridges
Submitted by anontdh on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:04pm.
Race and racism: barriers and bridges
by Denise Oliver Velez
Anti-racism, Dreamstime
The United States is a country symbolically founded on the ideas of liberty and justice for all. Yet it is also founded on the practice of ethnocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of African peoples and their descendents, the removal of Spanish speaking citizens and a harsh and unjust policy to Asians—including exclusion acts.
And so hand-in-hand with its ideals inscribed in the Constitution and other documents, racism is deeply etched in both our roots and current conditions. One nation, divided by racism, with liberty for some, and injustice for many.
I do not plan to discuss classism, genderism or homophobia today—but racism has intersections with them all.
We the people have not been able to eradicate it. That does not either negate or deprecate efforts since the founding of our nation to do so. It is a long struggle, and one, at my age of 64, I won't see the end of.
We are all affected by racism, whether or not we know it.
I often think of words written by Buffy Sainte Marie, Cree Nation folksinger activist, in her seminal work "My Country Tis of Thy People You're Dying," in which she ends the song on the plaintive note:
Hands on our hearts we salute you your victory,
Choke on your blue white and scarlet hypocrisy
Pitying the blindness that you've never seen
That the eagles of war whose wings lent you glory
They were never no more than carrion crows,
Pushed the wrens from their nest, stole their eggs, changed their story;
The mockingbird sings it, it's all that he knows.
"Ah what can I do?" say a powerless few
With a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye --
Can't you see that their poverty's profiting you.
My country 'tis of thy people you're dying.
Until we can all see how racism profits the few and cripples, demeans and impoverishes the many, it will continue to be the most divisive tool in the arsenal of the powerful. Whether or not you personally have ever said anything racist, thought anything racist, participated in maintaining it structurally—you have a responsibility to fight it politically, legislatively, socially, at work, in school, in your neighborhoods and communities, with friends and neighbors and most importantly, in the home, with your family.
Often, we are uncomfortable with this. We stumble, we talk at cross purposes, we point fingers, we excuse, we deny, we ignore or bristle. The end result is that we don't move forward. Often, we see it only as an issue of black versus white. It isn't.
We have to root it out of the rainbow. If it festers in any nook or cranny of the body politic, we wind up with national gangrene.
When I was much younger, I was a member of a movement spearheaded by a young man in the Black Panther Party named Fred Hampton. He organized in Chicago a coming together of disparate groups of many colors, dubbing it "The Rainbow Coalition."
This movement is currently being documented by filmmaker Ray Santisteban.
Rainbow Coalition
RAINBOW COALITION charts the history and legacy of a groundbreaking multi-ethnic coalition that rocked Chicago in the 1960s and forever altered the political landscape of the United States. Comprised of activists from the Black Panthers, the Young Patriots, Rising up Angry, and the Young Lords, Chicago’s Rainbow Coalition (1969-1972) united poor African Americans, whites, and Latinos to openly challenge Mayor Richard Daley’s political machine and protest substandard housing in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America.
What began as a drive to achieve a voice for poor communities quickly grew into a formidable political movement, attracting the support of other disenfranchised groups and the attention of a threatened Chicago political machine determined to destroy it.
Told through rare archival footage and the personal stories of its members and contemporary political leaders, this one-hour documentary recounts the dramatic history of the Rainbow Coalition which collapsed after the assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton and considers its significant impact on the political platforms and future voter outreach campaigns of Chicago politicians like Mayor Harold Washington, Congressman Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson, Sr., and President Barack Obama.
A thought-provoking film that sparks new dialogue about the legacy of the 1960s, RAINBOW COALITION considers how young activists today can work together to confront the problems facing their diverse communities.
That Rainbow Coalition grew and embraced radical and leftist groups across the U.S., involving AIM (American Indian Movement), I Wor Kuen (Chinese Americans) and the Brown Berets (Chicanos). Later, Jesse Jackson borrowed it as the symbol for Rainbow-Push. LGBT groups also used the rainbow in their symbolic flag.
We now sit in a symbolic "Big Tent" of the Democratic Party. Where once the Republican Party embraced a multi-racial message, that Party is no more, now dominated by groups of tea partiers who want to white it out and take "their country back." But it isn't their country—they are simply one part of it, and as long as they reject the rainbow, we will reject their warped vision for our future.
But they are not alone in being warped. We too have been affected and infected. We too are often confused about how to build bridges and cross over the rigid lines of "race" and ethnicity, and to root out the dis-ease within ourselves.
We don't get it right much of the time. Anger, rage, guilt, carelessness, talking at each other rather than to each other, and a failure to listen are roadblocks along the way.
Each time we fail, it behooves us to try again, and to keep trying to get it right.
Our future depends on it.
As we sit, together, under the big tent, fractious, and very divided at times, I wonder what we each must do to bridge these divisions. I don't have the answer, but perhaps we each have a piece of it. The question is, are we each willing to meld our piece with another's, to forge a solid enough block to move forward?
Are we going to see that rainbow? Or do we each sit in our own corners, nursing our own little piece of the pie?
Much has been made of racism—those who see it and those who don't and those who avoid what often becomes an obstreperous battle, so they duck out. What complicates the issue is that for the first time in American history, we have a black American man as the leader of our party. We don't really know how to deal with it. "Firsts" by definition are new, with new expectations and new language. They are also uncomfortable. We are comfortable with the idea of black leaders of movements. We all acknowledge "civil rights" and doubtful anyone in this tent denies, or rejects or avoids embracing that legacy. No one here, I think, finds it odd that certain elected officials, especially those from districts with large populations of voters of color, are legitimate in that representation. But those elected officials are not the president.
None of us will deny that there is a large sub-section of the populace who vociferously refuses to accept the right of a duly-elected black man to live in the White House with a black wife and children. Many of those deniers sit in Congress.
But that is a far cry from where we, in the Democratic Party and on the left, are today with this brand new quandary. We all tend to react differently to this phenomenon, based on a point of view we bring with us into the tent.
There has been heated discussion about how and why we support and/or criticize this man, in this position, and rarely is there unanimity. In some cases, there has been flaming hostility.
I don't find that odd. If we had predicted it a few years ago, we might have mitigated a bit of the impact. But frankly, no one predicted it. From the perspective of many African-Americans (along with others), it was something that would never, and could never, happen in our lifetimes.
It.just.wasn't.possible.
But it happened, and we were amazed, tearful, shocked, elated and fearful—all at once.
Imagine that. For me (and many others), only three generations removed from slavery, it was overwhelming. I still pinch myself and wait for the other shoe to drop.
This has nothing to do with my own very leftist politics. This has nothing to do with my political positions on capitalism (I don't forget that every other president was the symbolic leader of global capital and U.S. dominion). I've had this conversation with my long-time comrades and members of that old rainbow coalition. Surprisingly, a majority of them also pulled the lever for Barack Obama, notwithstanding their own agendas for social change.
I do know that his singular election was a major crack in the wall of American racism, and I wanted to apply my chisel to widening the chink in the wall. I will do so again in 2012. As will my former comrades, some of whom are harsh critics of legislative and administration policies.Not one of us is willing to backslide into the hell of a Perry or Romney presidency. Been there, done that with shrub Bush.
The fact that Jimmy Carter was only a one-term president didn't really make a difference to anyone concerned with fighting racism. I liked Jimmy Carter, since I lived in DC at the time, and watched him enroll Amy in a black public school. But when he lost, no white American felt that his loss was an affront to them, nor did they feel that it was symbolic of failure. Black folks simply got up to face yet another day living with another president. Doubtful anyone on the right wept over Bush Senior's loss either. He was replaced with yet another white White House occupant. As per usual. We were pleased, because yes, he was a Democrat. And no, he was not America's first black one.
What is often critiqued, questioned, disparaged about many African Americans and other "minority" groups is their dogged and allegedly "uncritical" support of the Obama presidency, and advocacy for his second term. Notwithstanding the fact that we have been a solid part of the big tent base for many years, and voted in equal measure for those white Democrats who won or lost. But we didn't mourn those losses personally, nor did we weep with collective joy at victory.
Tears of joy
Only three generations after slavery, for some if us, we wept at images from Grant Park on election night, and no one is going to get in our way in pursuit of a repeat in 2012. Because it will become our collective failure if we allow the crack in the foundation to re-seal itself.
We grabbed a rainbow—not just policy, not just legislation, not even our own economic conditions became primary. It has changed history, and we want to keep the book open, including many of us who ultimately want to see another system in place in the future.
Since this issue of historical racism vis-a-vis the presidency often sucks up all the air in the room in our efforts to change systemic power, it masks the real problems that we fail to address.
Let me give you an example. As part of the Rainbow Coalition, I worked in the Puerto Rican community as a member of the Young Lords Party, whose history has just been reissued in a photo essay by Michael Abramson with introduction by Iris Morales, and narratives from party members.
Palante, Michael Abramson
What was of major importance, as the cover photo illustrates, was that the YLP took the first major step to address racism in the Puerto Rican community. Young Puerto Ricans embraced afro-hairstyles and their mixed African-Taino heritage for the first time. We did political education in the community to root out deeply embedded racism, and the effects of that education are still with us. Did we defeat it? No, but we made major inroads.
No coincidence that some of the key organizers for SEIU-1199 today are graduates of the Young Lords. They are still organizing, still educating about racism, and they are working for the re-election of Barack Obama, while continuing to fight for progressive social change.
Three days ago I had visitors on my farm. Two dear friends who are married to each other—one a former Young Lord, and one a former Panther, both doing critical organizing work for SEIU. They wanted to talk about what they are facing today. Some of the news was bad, and some was good. They reported that they had just lost a battle to unionize a hospital. "What defeated the vote?" I asked. My sister-in-struggle replied "racism" and as she sat, with her head bowed in her hands, she looked up at me and said, "Denise, I was so angry. Our own people, Latinos, especially some of the older ones, just won't deal with a union that supports a prieto [black man]. We have more work to do. The same thing happened in Texas, where we ran into people who gladly voted for Hillary simply because she was white." Her husband concurred. "However," she continued, "there was good news in Florida. We met young Cubans, who have broken with the extremist anti-Castroism of their parents, and also discarded the racism that splits Cubans from Puerto Ricans, Haitians and African Americans. We are working to build that coalition." We talked about strategies, and the need for more organizers who can become human bridges. They left to head home—and that discussion prompted me to write this today.
young SEIU activists
The young people in union movements like this one, and the multi-racial coalition of groups like the Dreamers, or the Domestic Worker Alliance, are forging ties that fight both racism and exploitation. Multi-ethnic student groups on the nation's campuses are part of that new coalition as well.
We still need to address divisions within groups who are often lumped together as demographic categories. I spend a lot of time exploring, probing and educating between and among Haitians, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans—and there is a strong component of racism in those divisions. I cannot speak to racism(s) in the Asian community. Perhaps someone will read this who is qualified to do so. I have written about Islamophobia and anti-Arabism—yet another facet in the fractured unity we seek but have not found.
I've written this today from one person's perspective. I speak for myself. As a black Spanish-speaking woman who grew up in a multi-racial family, who went to Hebrew school as a kid, who has Muslim family members, who embraces a flexible sexuality, and who has hair streaked with gray, I represent multiple perspectives within myself. I suppose I was destined to become a cultural anthropologist. My perspectives on cultural relativism inform my goals. To educate, to organize, and to fight racism and division in all their forms. I try to be a bridge builder. To cross borders and boundaries. I don't always succeed, but I have more victories than failures.
I'm uncomfortable a lot of the time. Fine. I'll stick with my sig line.
"If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition." Bernice Johnson Reagon
We've got work to do.
Let's do it.
Thats enough anontdh*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:47pm.
This is the comment section of NB. If you wish to link to your screeds that is allowed here. But the purpose of this section is to engage in "live" exchange of ideas, opinions and debate. What you are doing is spamming up the threads.
Knock it off!
Caj?
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 5:58pm.
This guy?
cajun
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 6:00pm.
I do believe this is the exact same nonsense she posted yesterday (up above). One more time and I think it should qualify as spam and her flexible sexuality black hispanic islam loving a$$ should get the boot!
Exactly Ms Rad*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 6:21pm.
http://newsbusters.org/user/anontdh
At first I thought it was just a drive by troll. Then I see the same post from last night. Notice a member for over a year and has posted only on one thread. A sleeper troll posting the same screed more than once to me is a spammer. And if you scroll up the thread, the first post is still there.
And Bk, why would tdh call himself a black hispanic woman with a "flexible" sexuality like Ms Rad says?...LOL
NB sure has been getting hit with the whackos from the interwaves which tells me NB is doing its job quite nicely...;-)
Cajun-2 Here's is what the Linkster thought of 9-11.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 6:30pm.
It speaks to something rotten that has sprung up in the place where once there were two towers standing tall and proud. It speaks to fear and hatred. The growth of Islamophobia.
Ain't that special, in a Godless statist sort of way.
We call you out Linkster Hello it's called islamosavvy.
A fellow Democrat when Reagan was one.
Good catch upcountry*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 6:53pm.
The screed quotes Buffy Sainte Marie and Bernice Johnson Reagon...
http://www.creative-native.com/
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/reagon_quotes.htm
Both of them are described as "social activists". After reading some of their bio...they are both anti everything traditional about this country.. anti white, ..blah blah blah...socialist propaganda re-defined with "equality" for all. It amazes me that these kind of people want "equality" in a capitalist society where 50% of the population contribute nothing to the coffers to continue the "redistribution" of wealth. Feel good kumbaya with no thought of consequences.
TL;DR
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 7:04pm.
Way, wayyyy TL
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Hey, Morgan...
Submitted by Stuart Kaufman on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 6:05pm.
Just shut up and act! Herman Cain just won the Florida straw poll. Isn't he 'black' enough for you?
Damn Racists in Tea Partiers Want ... Herman Cain?
Submitted by pnkearns on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 7:15pm.
Morgan Freeman is right when he says the "Tea Party Will Do 'Whatever [It] Can To Get This Black Man Outta Here'! Seems the Florida branch wants to replace Obama with ... Herman Cain. Damn those crafty racists. Will they stop at nothing?
Morgan Freeman - Hollywood Racist
Submitted by Renrah on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 7:15pm.
I have become convinced the REAL Racists are the ones who keep believing it is about Obama's color - Hey Morgan - news flash - he's half white. The people who keep the argument about his color are the true racists here. The rest of us despise the man and what he's done because of his socialist policies that are destroying America. Yeah, Morgan, he has made the race issue worse, guess what, that is the Saul Alinsky method. Pretend you are studying to play the part of a man with half a brain and start looking at his ideology and his destructive business policies and pretend it is coming from a white man since YOU can't get past the color issues and perhaps the lightbulb will show up over your head. Forget the color thing already, it is a moot point in this argument and if you did have half a brain you would see that.
Herman Cain wins GOP straw
Submitted by USA4freedom on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 8:21pm.
Herman Cain wins GOP straw poll....
You racist Tea Party!!!
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
If We Are A Racist Country
Submitted by Harley2002 on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 10:46pm.
Mr Freeman if we are a racist country answer me this. Why are not all the minorities dead or in prison? Whites are still close to 80% of the population. If we wanted to we could wipe out the whole black community. You could arm everyone of "your" people and we would still crush them if we wanted to. The reason is whites are not nearly as racist as you and your people are.
I grew up in Detroit. Blacks could come to a white bar and listen to the rock bands and nobody gave them any trouble. But if a white went in Detroit to a black bar they are lucky if they left alive. So who are the racists freeman?
Harley2002.....There obviously is some racism in every
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:13pm.
country. But you hit it on the nail when you wrote that "whites are not nearly as racist" as Blacks.
I have some personal experience in that regard. In my younger day I dated a Black girl for a few months. I remember attending an engagement party for one of her friends. I was the only White at the party. I was surprised by all the animosity toward me, perhaps even hatred, especially by the Black women at the party. Yet I also recall that others came up to me and apologized for the way I was treated.
Thanks to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the Leftist teachers, media and politicians, racism is kept alive and prosperous in this great nation.
HONKYS FOR CAIN
Submitted by Lusty Infant on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 11:23pm.
and CRACKAS FOR CAIN. even REDNECKS FOR CAIN. YES WE CAIN!
New black man
Submitted by nulife02 on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 3:18am.
You're right, Morgan - We are going to do whatever we can to get that black man out of the White House and replace him with - another black man, Herman Cain. Unlike Morgan Freeman, us conservatives can truly look past color and vote for or against the man.
Freeman, the mental midget
Submitted by rachel c on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 3:38am.
Oh great...another mental midget weighs in. Thanks, Morgan Freeman...real pearls. Again with the racism bullcrap? Obama's not even BLACK! Not even his black half is black! It's not like Obama EVER lived the "black experience". He grew up in Indonesia and then Hawaii for heavensakes, not Detroit or Newark. He went to Columbia and Harvard, not Howard. There is nothing black about this guy except for his big mouth wife with the tacky outfits. And if it's about racism...how come Herman Cain is a Tea Party favorite? He's a REAL black man.
So shut up, Freeman...you're an idiot. Stick to acting.
Former BS'er Myself!
Submitted by billwhit1357 on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 3:47am.
I was a Democrat in 2008, came from a family of Democrats. I was also a Reagan Democrat, willing to anything to get rid of Jimah after he proved himself worthless. I didn't vote for Bush or Gore, thought both weren't worth spitting on. I voted Kerry in 2004, but in 2008, I could not bring myself to vote for such a shady person as Obama, who I could tell was only talking BS in his speeches. So I voted McCain, the Less of Two Evils. Now, after Obama, Pelosi, and Reid have turned the Democratic Party into the Looney Tunes Legion of Demons, I don't think I could ever support another Demon, not the way they want to Destroy our Great County! Obama was the one who got the Racist Fires burning overtime, not the GOP or Tea Party! Obama and his Horde of Demons use the Racist Card every chance they get. These people are not worth my time of day and should be Flushed Down that Washington Toilet in 2012!
Very good,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 11:06am.
Welcome to the Right side. We will try to be worthy.
Morgan Freeman is NO RACIST
Submitted by Dennis in WV on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 6:44am.
Please don't call Morgan Freeman a racist. He partners his Mississippi jazz club with a white dude. What Freeman is is a DEMOCRAT thru and thru.
And, as we all know, calling the Tea Party members names such as racists is part of the Democratic talking points.
So the real choice here is "is Morgan Freeman ignorant of the facts, concerning the Tea Party members, or is Morgan Freeman just another Hollywood shill who is using his popularity (my favorite actor by the way) to sway uninformed fans to vote for Democrat Obama?"
Go Herman Cain.
Sorry
Submitted by robert-fl on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 10:24am.
Who he partners with in business does not prove that he is not a racist.
Morgan Freeman is a
Submitted by Superpower on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 9:55am.
Morgan Freeman is a thespian, an actor...he's not a political strategist. If Mr. Freeman understood that people like him for his acting ability, and not his political persuasion he'd probably keep his comments non-political. So now I get to decide whether or not I want to continue to watch/buy his movies.
Racist?
Submitted by robert-fl on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 10:22am.
Morgan Freeman is just another Hollywood idiot. He is free to spout his nonsense and to look as foolish as he wants. Hey, Morgan, why is it that people like you see everything through a racial lens? If you want to know what a racist looks like, peer into a mirror.
Sorry, Morgan, your Race Card is expired, over limit, & declined
Submitted by edeldoug on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 10:27am.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-st-louis/sorry-your-race-card-is...
Direct response to Mr. Freeman's assertions.
Voting with my remote...
Submitted by Shazamm on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 11:10am.
I do everything to avoid this guy's movies, his commercials, his narrations, and his voice. He is a traitor to this country and has been for a long time. I can't stand the sight of him.
He has it a little wrong
Submitted by MacWell on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 11:44am.
Hey Morgan, it's not because he's black, it's because he's red!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 12:38pm.
Another pervert speaks for Obama...
Cain Vs Obama
Submitted by Jullou on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 1:41pm.
Excuse me, Morgan, if I want Herman to replace Obama. In fact, Morgan, I would love it if Herman becomes the Republican candidate with Col Allen West for VP. But I'm still a racist, right? That's leftist logic for you. No, that's deliberately trying to turn Americans against Americans!!!
Morgan, you are part of the problem.
I agree somewhat
Submitted by ByteRider on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 2:02pm.
I don't think Freeman is being divisive. I think he's being ignorant. I hope he's being ignorant, that is.
Racism
Submitted by ByteRider on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 1:59pm.
First... I think Obama is the worst President the US has ever seen.
Second... I like Freeman, he is one of my favorite actors! Shawshank Redemption... best film ever done, seen it 30 times and still enjoy it!
Third... you cannot get rid of racism. Racism is called "Tribalism", look it up. As long as the black community [or ANY minority community] stays out of mainstream society, they will be out of the "Tribe". Tribalism is enate to the human psyche, you cannot eradicate it, it is instinctive to our organizational psyche. Studied paleo-psychology to understand this.
Even people of the SAME race and the SAME culture experience "racism" if they keep themselves out of mainstream society. Take hippies of the 60's, our subcultured teenagers, etc., for example. I rest my case.
Byte, PhD
Racists??????????????????
Submitted by DutchUncle on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 2:28pm.
No dought about it Freeman is a great ACTOR,,that is Pretending to be someone he is NOT. But, on the subject of Racism, he need to crawl back into his Wormhole along with Danny Glover. These Hollywood types have NO idea of the Real World and should be laughed at if they pop their Hate Spewing head up. Hollywood is a Cesspool of Hatred, Violent Movies and Disgusting behavour and so they are a Moot Subject. Why is he even being interviewed? I guess it was a Slow News Day.
Morgan: Great actor and narrator / as usual stupid politically
Submitted by GLondon on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 3:29pm.
I don't suppose Morgan ever considered we don't like OBummer because he's a stupid, ignorant, unqualified, unaccomplished fool of a President rather than because he's HALF black...
We dislike him IN SPITE of his mixed race or whatever the hell he is...who knows? His origins are as strange as anything else about him anyway.
No,. Morg, it ain't a race thing, bro...it's a STUPID thing, get it? The man is not only pathetically underqualified for this job, he is a pathological, habitual LIAR in every respect.
This idiot President not only cannot DO his job, he doesn't really even know what the hell his job IS...
Wake up, man...you're so excellent in the areas of your profession...how can you possible be so moronic in this very narrow other aspect?
The line forms on our left
Submitted by Cranky_Curmudgeon on Sun, 09/25/2011 - 4:27pm.
Just in the offside chance that Mr. Freeman does read this, I will take the time to respond to his less than sane assertions.
Mr. Freeman- you may now feel free to form up in the line to our extreme left, as that would appear to be your natural bent. However Mr. Freeman, that line leads only to infamy and shame. You and you fellow practitioners of the arts have had your noses so far up the arrogant arse's of the leftards for so long that only the natural coloring of your personal skin hides the fact that there is a permanent brown stain around your collective necks. I have enjoyed your work over the years and had several examples in my home and I have used you as an example of what a reasonable and thoughtful "black" man is to my kids and their kids. That sir, just ended. Your works are already in the trash, destroyed so they cannot be used again. That was a very drastic step for me as I oppose censorship in all forms, but I hate asininity even worse.
I just wish I could confront you personally in the company of my sons, their children, and my three (3) goddaughters. The girls are precious to us. Their father was straight out of the Over-The-Rhine area of Cincinnati, OH and he was a very proud man who just happened to be black. Even more, I would dearly love to have him back so he could confront you personally.
He, sir was an American without the hyphenated pretensions that are so now publicly flaunted. He died in the line of duty, saving his partner- ME. But, that was to be expected of him as we had both shed blood and suffered agonies for the other prior.
Mr. Freeman- you may now feel free to join the ranks on the left and gaze upon the wonders of the Big Rock Candy Mountain- gorge yourself on the rainbow stew - and serve proudly in the ranks of Michael Moore's Pansy Brigade.
Morgan Freeman Does Not Have A Clue
Submitted by RobNclt on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 1:35am.
As I watched the interview I honestly was not surprised to hear what Morgan Freeman was saying. Since I am black I hear that kind of ridiculousness and misinformed talked coming from people in the so called black community. Being black I know for a fact that black people as a whole do not understand economics, politics, or racism, yes I said racism.
Any time they can not have what they want they cry racism. White liberals and conservatives have TAUGHT them to scream racist when all else fails and you have no argument that makes sense as to why you want what you want. They have found it works so they continue doing it and some like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton make a living at it. When blacks see it no longer works they will stop doing it.
Pierce Morgan Gave Morgan Freeman every opportunity to change his tone but he refused. What do you expect from a man who split with his wife because he was dating his step granddaughter. He has does not know jack about the economy, if he did he would know why Obama will not be reelected.
I am black, I did not vote for Obama, will not vote for him in 2012 and have talked with a lot of friends who are not voting for him again. I have also talked with white people who will not vote for him again. Morgan Freeman is a decent actor but I think most people could be decent actors if they had all day to get 1 line correct.
Racism
Submitted by robertg222 on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 5:19am.
Why is it that only racist use the term racism.
Stick to your considerable but narrow talents
Submitted by theduck6 on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 5:55am.
You know nothing about which you speak but speak anyway.
Perhaps someone should point out that he "shot his own argument in the head" as he rambled on. Actually, I think he knew it.
Never look to someone for reality who's sole talent is make believe.
Morgan Freeman doesn't want Obama to stay President no matter...
Submitted by redraider on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 5:33pm.
Morgan Freeman doesn't want Obama to stay President no matter what it takes....Naaaah. He LOVES for 17 million people to be unemployed and for the debt to be exploding and for Obama to destroy the economy, other wise he wants Obama out of office. He wants Obama to stay President for VERY principled reasons...Morgan Freeman likes ALL of those things. Only Racist Tea Partiers want Obama out for no principled reasons, Noooo, no reasons at all, except for they are racists of course!!!