Morgan Freeman |
Actor Morgan Freeman has a solution to the problem of racism – "Stop
talking about it!"
In a CBS News' 60 Minutes profile of the Oscar-winning actor
scheduled to air tonight, Freeman tells Mike Wallace labels like
"white" and "black" are an obstacle to defeating racism.
"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to
ask you to stop calling me a black man," he says. "I know you as
Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You wouldn't say,
'Well, I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.' You know what
I'm saying?"
The actor also criticizes Black History Month, saying setting
aside a special month actually segregates black history from
American history. Calling the idea "ridiculous," Freeman notes
there's no "white history month."
"You're going to relegate my history to a month?" Freeman
asks Wallace. "I don't want a black history month. Black history
is American history," he says.
Freeman, who won his first Oscar for his role in "Million
Dollar Baby" last year, has starred in numerous films, including
"The Shawshank Redemption," "Unforgiven," "Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves," "The Bonfire of the Vanities," "Glory" and "Driving
Miss Daisy."
