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Onkel Neal
07-08-12, 09:51 PM
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/06/morgan-freeman-obamas-not-our-first-black-president/?iref=obnetwork


President Barack Obama is considered by some to be the nation's first black president - but Morgan Freeman isn't one such individual.
The actor told NPR's "Tell Me More" host Michel Martin in an interview posted Thursday that "the first thing" that he thinks of when he thinks of Obama is "all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him," Morgan said.


"They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white American, Kansas, middle America," the Oscar winner continued. "There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president - he's America's first mixed-race president."


:O: Facts!
19Herr_Rapp86
07-08-12, 10:07 PM
That's interesting stuff. My question is, why not sooner? I wish it wouldn't have taken this long for a mixed race president to be elected. I mean, I see what's going on with the Zimmerman trial and what not. All the riots. I really hate how race is such a big issue in this country. We're supposed to be a melting pot, right? We're American's, plain and simple. We're not African-Americans, Asian-American's, Arab-Americans, etc, etc. We're Americans. I hope there comes a time when color isn't an issue, doesn't even get brought up. A time where we are simply, well, Americans. :)
Gargamel
07-08-12, 10:29 PM
Why does race matter at all?

It doesn't.

Shame on anybody who thinks otherwise.
TLAM Strike
07-08-12, 10:31 PM
:timeout:

I thought Clinton was our 1st Black POTUS? :hmm2:
Sailor Steve
07-08-12, 11:30 PM
White racists used to say that if you had one drop of black blood in you, you were black, period. Now they say he's okay because he's not "all black". Most of us have some mixture or another in us. If the criterion is "how much", then I'm not "all white".

People who hate Obama look at his skin and see black. People who love Obama look at his skin and see black. I think the whole "mixed race" think is just another reason to either defend the man or dismiss him. I also think it's more than a little lame.
sidslotm
07-09-12, 03:48 AM
A black fella I once worked with in the 60s said to me "Pete, I treat each man as I find him" I never forgot that little gem and still use it.
Oberon
07-09-12, 05:19 AM
A black fella I once worked with in the 60s said to me "Pete, I treat each man as I find him" I never forgot that little gem and still use it.

Sound advice that. :yep:
Herr-Berbunch
07-09-12, 10:02 AM
The current evidence* suggests that we all came out of Africa ~60,000 years ago, from where we'd (they'd) been living for ~140,000 years previously.

So we are all black. :)

So why do I have such a small . . . ? :oops:

(Just kidding, all my ex's have called me Herr-Dong)


*For non-creationists only
antikristuseke
07-09-12, 11:21 AM
Maybe they have called you herr-dong because you are a bit of a dong, nothing to do with size :D
Herr-Berbunch
07-09-12, 11:45 AM
Hey, wait a minute :hmmm:
Spoon 11th
07-09-12, 12:42 PM
Morgan Freeman agrees with me too. I told four years ago Obama is a white culture mulatto.
August
07-09-12, 01:03 PM
I think mixed race describes most African-Americans including Morgan Freeman.
mookiemookie
07-09-12, 01:07 PM
I don't know about all of that, but I do know I'd like to have Morgan Freeman narrate my day to day life. It would sound awesome.
Rilder
07-09-12, 01:31 PM
I don't think petty things like race really means much when the Aliens invade.
Sailor Steve
07-09-12, 01:41 PM
I don't know about all of that, but I do know I'd like to have Morgan Freeman narrate my day to day life. It would sound awesome.
I'll see your Morgan Freeman and raise you a James Earl Jones. :rock:
Sailor Steve
07-09-12, 01:42 PM
I don't think petty things like race really means much when the Aliens invade.
A good point. Also race is irrelevant when it comes to the love of a dog. He doesn't care what his person looks like. :sunny:
antikristuseke
07-09-12, 01:50 PM
Even postit notes are racist!
http://images2.alphacoders.com/208/208262.jpg
Platapus
07-09-12, 04:03 PM
"They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white American, Kansas, middle America," the Oscar winner continued. "There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president - he's America's first mixed-race president."

If he were alive in the 50's/60's which bathroom/drinking fountian would Obama have been allowed to use?
mookiemookie
07-09-12, 04:08 PM
If he were alive in the 50's/60's which bathroom/drinking fountian would Obama have been allowed to use?

Virginia used to have a law on the books that said that anyone with any black ancestors, no matter how few or far back, was considered black.
August
07-09-12, 04:13 PM
Virginia used to have a law on the books that said that anyone with any black ancestors, no matter how few or far back, was considered black.


Ironic in light of Berbunch's "current evidence"... :yep:
TLAM Strike
07-09-12, 04:14 PM
I don't think petty things like race really means much when the Aliens invade.

Then again have you ever seen the Borg assimilate someone who wasn't white? (Aliens don't count).

:hmm2:

The Borg: The're only after the White People...
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/35/firstcontact0704.jpg


:O:
Onkel Neal
07-09-12, 06:54 PM
I don't know about all of that, but I do know I'd like to have Morgan Freeman narrate my day to day life. It would sound awesome.


:up::up::up: That would be awesome...

"Subsim, it began one evening with a bored chemical plant operator and some pictures of the USS Cavalla..."

Someone needs to create a program that would make any narration typed voiced by Morgan Freeman.


Virginia used to have a law on the books that said that anyone with any black ancestors, no matter how few or far back, was considered black.

Yeah, that seems pretty narrow-minded to me. I think the intent of that thinking was "if you are not 100% white, we lump you in with the blacks".

Anyway, I really do not care what Obama's parentage is in regards to his doing the job of President, I just object to the celebrations that he is the first "black"President, when he is just as much white as he is black. It's not factual or accurate.

And the white guy in me is proud of President Obama for delivering the goods to Osama Bin Laden. :)
Gargamel
07-09-12, 07:04 PM
A good point. Also race is irrelevant when it comes to the love of a dog. He doesn't care what his person looks like. :sunny:

Sadly mine does.

She was a rescue and her reaction to blacks leads us to believe she was abused by one as a puppy.
19Herr_Rapp86
07-09-12, 09:02 PM
And the white guy in me is proud of President Obama for delivering the goods to Osama Bin Laden. :)

Hear, hear!
Sailor Steve
07-10-12, 12:21 AM
Anyway, I really do not care what Obama's parentage is in regards to his doing the job of President, I just object to the celebrations that he is the first "black"President, when he is just as much white as he is black. It's not factual or accurate.
It doesn't have to be factual or accurate. Calling someone white or black (or brown or red or yellow or any other color) has nothing to do with traceable bloodlines. it has to do with observable color. Without knowing anything else just one look would tell you that Barack Obama is indeed black. If he was just another person you saw on the street you wouldn't make that distinction at all. As they used to say, "what you see is what you get."