Morgan Freeman Calls Black History Month an ‘Insult’
Actor Morgan Freeman is taking issue with Black History Month. In an interview with The Sunday Times , Freeman said there are “two things I can say publicly that I do not like.” The first, he explained, is Black History…
Actor Morgan Freeman is taking issue with Black History Month.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Freeman said there are “two things I can say publicly that I do not like.”
The first, he explained, is Black History Month.
“Black History Month is an insult,” he said, adding, “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?”
February has been designated Black History Month.
As History.com notes, “Also known as African American History Month, the event grew out of ‘Negro History Week,’ the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month.”
“Other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating Black history,” it added.
The second term Freeman has an issue with is African American.
He elaborated:
“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?”