Morgan Freeman: Why Do We Need a Black History Month, I am an American
He may have supported Obama in the election, but this guy “doesn’t do race.” His hero was Sidney Poitier, who got where he was “when diversity didn’t exist,” and that was good enough for a young Freeman to think he could do it too.
So what is Freeman’s solution to the “race problem?” Why stop talking about it, of course. Mike Wallace has no frickin’ idea how to handle that kind of blasphemous candor.
JoshuaPundit has a great blog and got this from Tundra Tabloid.
Freeman’s grand solution sounds downright sensible from where I sit. But that would put a whole lot of race-baiters like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and frankly the entire Democrat party and all of academia out of work. Not good for the liberal economy. But I suspect Freeman wouldn’t care a whit about that.
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ROFLMAO
so i take it Morgan fits your definition of red blooded American???
Most Americans prefer to judge people by the content of their character. I think a Republican named Martin Luther King, Jr. said that and Freeman and I agree with him. To the extent the Democrat Party constantly divides the country into groups through identity politics and pits them against each other, then they are doing us all a disservice.
In response to another comment. See in context »Oh yes… if only Rev. King were here to shake your hand and join with you in a chorus of
LMAO
In response to another comment. See in context »Well, the good rev. was a Republican . . .
In response to another comment. See in context »Yes Freeman is parroting Rev. King who was a Republican…however the Reverend might have shifted his position if he had lived to experience the Republican Southern Strategy.
I do see his point maybe we don’t need a Black History Month, it seems many didn’t feel we needed a day to remember the good Rev. King, most of them from his own party. So maybe that can go too and while we are at it we certainly don’t need a Labor Day to honor the worker’s movement, since there is no labor movement any longer.
I actually don’t think there needs to be a “Labor Day.” Unions have long been anti-capitalist and, at least until this year, were on a decades long march to irrelevance in terms of membership. That is because there is no longer a need for a “workers’ movement.” With all the regulations of the workplace by the federal and state governments having been in place for decades, the American worker is well looked after and capitalism can flourish with these basic protections in place. The unions were the root cause of the demise of the American auto industry, which did not allow them to make a competitively priced, quality product due to onerous union compensation packages. Then, Obama took over the companies, paid the unions billions, then passed cash for clunkers to keep them working. The problem is that none of this helps GM make a car anyone wants to buy, so we are back to square one.
So I would rename Labor Day perhaps something like Capitalist Day, that way we have a holiday that truly reflects the greatness of America and we can still have our long weekend.
In response to another comment. See in context »Are you saying union workers designed and manufactured crap cars and ignored the quality control and new management techniques of the Japanese and European capitalists? Techniques developed by an American who was shunned by…oh yeah..American Industrial Capitalists. But hey, you can buy a Saturn…they didn’t have that union burden you speak of and of course it was the union that decided to offer the same car under different emblems to be sold by thousands of redundant dealers. Yeah the union wreaked the auto industry. By the way in Germany the union is represented on the corporate board. And all those safety issues, you have a fair point but it was not industrial capitalists who brought them on.
And maybe you are right…we don’t need a labor movement…wages are stagnant…and we can import management from India and China who will work for a portion of an American salary and we can in this internet age just export clerical jobs and the Mexicans can pick up the rest of the slack…another generation and you won’t find an American who will know carpentry or plumbing and my mailman barely speaks English. But with Conservatives supporting NAFTA and sweetheart trade deals and didn’t care when industry went off shore but hey there will always be jobs at WalMart for us or like you, there’s always the high paying blogging jobs.
But you just live in your mythological world and we wouldn’t want facts to get in the way.
In response to another comment. See in context »As with any other holiday or designated day, if you don’t like it, don’t celebrate it. Easy enough.
Agreed. Does anybody you know celebrate Labor Day as it was intended? I mean I have die-hard union members in my family and even they don’t ‘celebrate’ anything other than an extra day off work before school starts. Only 13% of Americans rank Labor Day as one of the nation’s most important holidays. Just saying.
In response to another comment. See in context »Same reason there’s women’s history month. Those who write the dominant narratives — i.e. journalists, authors and historians — haven’t, typically, been black (or female, let alone both.) History as told be people who lived a wholly different experience of it (as women do when men write and perhaps blacks do when whites write), deserve to make sure people know there are many alternate histories, not just the one(s) they’ve heard and read and seen.
I’ve no doubt a black man or woman might be able to name a dozen major historic figures of importance to them — just as a feminist could name women she respects from our history — whose names mean little or nothing to others. Doesn’t mean they’re de facto unimportant.
I didn’t say anyone was unimportant.
In response to another comment. See in context »No you didn’t you just said that those who improved the life of workers in America, who were shot and beaten and starved out who fought for safety in coal mines and in factories and who fought for a forty hour week and an end to child labor should not be honored and instead their memory should be replaced by honoring the Capitalists who abused them.
Today I am a bit pissed at Capitalists because taxpayers have bailed them out and they are still strutting around like nothing ever happened. So forgive me if I do not sign a petition for a Capitalism History month.
Ms. Kelly makes a good point about history we Anglos need to take a moment to consider another viewpoint and learn from others heroes and their struggle for justice and recognition in our society.
In response to another comment. See in context »There is nothing new in what Freeman says. Just ask any African-American artist who only gets calls in February. The shortest month. And quite frigid at that. Some people view it as guettoization. Others view it as a necessary celebration of a history that has long been ignored. Both are valid points of view. I don’t get the big “gotcha” that this post suggests, especially the implication that it would put the whole “Democrat” party and all of academia out of work.
Bill Dupray and Morgan Freeman: voices of reason.
patty hartigan and caitlin kelly: two voices.
Well put. Happy New Year.
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