The actor objected in a UK interview to both, saying ‘You’re going to relegate my history to a month?’ and that the latter phrase is inaccurate
Morgan Freeman has said commonly used terms relating to race should be taken out of the lexicon. In an interview, the actor said he was keen to “say publicly” that he objected to the terms “Black History Month” and “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.”against both terms to the Guardian in 2012, saying he didn’t like “African American” “because ‘Black’As for Black History Month, he said he objected to the ghettoisation implicit in devoting February to this topic.
“But as you mature in this business, eventually you become a star. Then you’re pretty screwed in terms of referring to yourself as a character actor. You play a lot of the same type of role – people hire you and say, ‘It’s you that I want.’ And you live with it, I don’t think I’ve done much in the last 10 years that was much different. Driving Miss Daisy and Glory were different.
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