Morgan Freeman: ‘Black History Month Is an Insult,’ and So Is the Term ‘African American’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director In a rare new interview while promoting his performance in Zach Braff’s “A Good Person,” Morgan Freeman told The Sunday Times that he’s insulted by Black History Month and the term “African-American.” “Two things I can say publicly that I do not like,” Freeman said. “Black History Month is an insult.
You’re going to relegate my history to a month?” “Also ‘African-American’ is an insult,” he added. “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’.
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.” When The Sunday Times reporter evoked Denzel Washington, who once said, “I’m very proud to be Black, but Black is not all I am,” Freeman added: “Yes, exactly.
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