Thread: Morgan Freeman says Tea Party is "a racist thing"

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Don't look for Morgan Freeman at any Tea Party events anytime soon. Unless he's there to protest them.
The "Invictus" star condemns the Tea Party political movement as "a racist thing" for trying to oust Pres. Barack Obama from office on Friday's edition of "Piers Morgan Tonight."
"Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term," Freeman noted. "What underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to whatever we can to get this black man outta here.'"
Dismissing Morgan's suggestion that the Tea Party's motivations might be merely political, Freeman asserted, "It is a racist thing."
The actor went on to say that the Tea Party agenda "just shows the weak, dark, underside of America … We're supposed to be better than that."

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Enough with the race card

Stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term," he said. "What ... underlines that? Screw the country. We're going to do whatever we do to get this black man ... outta here.. It just shows the weak, dark, underside of America. We're supposed to be better than that."Now, such a statement coming from one of the professional race-mongers and grievance-collectors in the United States - say, Al Sharpton - would hardly raise an eyebrow. For such as he, the race card is the only one in the deck. But in the case of someone as apparently reasonable as Morgan Freeman (we've all seen him in interviews on other topics, and he appears to be everything pleasant and decent), it's more disturbing. We can wonder if he has given up thinking altogether.
Freeman's performance suggests the observation that those who choose to see the world through a racist prism are more interested in their precious prism than the world. There must be some sort of deep comfort in being able to hold a fixed mindset on so charged a subject, and to hold it in defiance of all the changes and improvements that have marked relations between blacks and whites over the last 50 years.

It would be fair to ask Morgan Freeman: Has he been paying attention to America since the days of Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson? Has there ever been a country so dedicated to eliminating not just overt racism, but what it sees as the legacy of racism, the outcrops and tracings of racism built up over time?
Was the legislation of the Great Society not, in large part, an effort to uplift those most left behind and facing the highest hurdles? What has been the meaning of the now generations-old policy of affirmative action? What has been the meaning of the vast educational programs combating racism, which have resulted in a population that - correctly - sees even a hint of actual racist practice or language as something to be abhorred, the great sin of our times?

Enough with the race card