Morgan Freeman describes Black History Month and the term ‘African-American’ as “an insult”
16.04.2023 - 14:49
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The Sunday Times’s Culture magazine in which he discussed his views on race.“Two things I can say publicly that I do not like. Black History Month is an insult. You’re going to relegate my history to a month?” he questioned.“Also ‘African-American’ is an insult.
I don’t subscribe to that title. Black people have had different titles all the way back to the n-word and I do not know how these things get such a grip, but everyone uses ‘African-American’.”He continued: “What does it really mean? Most Black people in this part of the world are mongrels. And you say Africa as if it’s a country when it’s a continent, like Europe.” As a point of comparison, he mentioned that people talk about Italian-Americans or Irish-Americans rather than describing themselves as Euro-Americans.Elsewhere in the interview, Freeman discussed the importance of representation on screen.
He began acting in the later days of the Hays Code, a censorship list of what films were allowed to show which banned, amongst other things, “ridicule of the clergy” and inter-racial relationships. It was abolished in 1968.“When I was growing up there was no ‘me’ in the movies,” he said. “If there was a black man in a movie he was funny.
Until Sidney Poitier came and gave young people like me the idea that, ‘OK, yes, I can do that.’”He later said: “The change is that all people are involved now. Everyone. LGBTQ, Asians, black, white, interracial marriages, interracial relationships.
All represented. You see them all on screen now and that is a huge jump.”Freeman’s most recent film role was in Zach Braff’s A Good Person. The film tells the story of Allison (Florence Pugh), who is involved in a car accident that kills her fiancé’s sister and her husband. She and her
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