Maybe Morgan Freeman prefers a Miss Daisy Month: Have Blacks become ashamed of Black History Month, or are some making us feel guilty because there is no month specifically named 'White History Month?
02.16.06 "...for they say that the mind has a strong drive to correct and re-correct itself over a period of time, if I can touch some substantial original historical base and they advised us that the best way to deal with the phenomenon is to shave off the brute's mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomena of illusions so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit." Willie Lynch-How to make a Slave.
Once again Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman is on his ivory soapbox debunking a Black cause. He seems to have generated some debate on the topic of Black History Month, I don't know about you, but I think Freeman's roles of playing the President, and playing God respectively, has gone to his head. Funny how I don't recall him coming out of his mouth stupid like that back when he was a struggling actor, before he managed to get on Hollywood's A-list, back in the '60's when he was in an off-Broadway play called "the Niggerlover," or when he played the role of Malcolm X in an independent film (Malcolm X Death of a Prophet) directed by Woodie King Jr., Years before the Spike Lee/Denzil Washington epic drama. No he wasn't talking that conservative crap then, he just ate his macaroni and cheese and cornbread and kept his mouth shut. But ever since his Oscar nominated role as the obedient car-driving man-servant in that piece of Blaxploitation garbage otherwise known as "Driving Miss Daisy,"you can't pay the guy to shut up.
A December episode of "60 Minutes"shows Freeman sounding as ig'nint as he wants to be: "You're not going to relegate my history to just one month?" That's part of the problem, the reasons he's using to justify his wish to remove the commemorative holiday, sounds dumber than his idea to eliminate it. "I don't want a Black history month. Black history is American History." Actually Freeman, Black history is world history, but I don't recall anyone coming up with a better idea when the great Carter G. Woodson first proposed "Negro History Week," way back in 1926. Freeman seems to have trouble with the timeframe of Black American history being confined within just one month (the shortest one at that), or so he wants us to believe. You're right actually Freeman, Black history can no more be limited to less than 30 days, any more than you can tell the whole story about how to train a White girl to be a champion boxer within just two hours. But you didn't refuse to accept your little bronze bigot (the Oscar statue) did you? Morgan, like a lot of Black celebrities you are just misguided. If you would please, allow me to indulge you and the readers the real purpose of what has become known as Black History Month.
I like many of us in our 40's, came up during a time when every month was White history month, the trick of it was, no one officially named it White History Month, they didn't have to, they just Whitewashed or omitted historical facts and called it history. In so doing, a huge historical gap was created, and something was needed to fill that void, after all so many diverse people played a key role in the founding of the United States, a way had to be made to acknowledge them, especially since the most ignored historical contributors were Black. History-like entertainment-is tied to a person's and ethnic group's self-esteem. There were pundits who were saying that people of African desent didn't contribute anything positive to world history or American history, Carter saw this happening, and did something about it. If you think that need has outlived its usefulness in 2006, then you sir, are living under an illusion.