OSCAR award-winner and recipient of the Lincoln Medal of Honor Morgan Freeman has said that Barack Obama is not America’s first black president because his mother was white.
“First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him … they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white — very white American, Kansas, middle of America. 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,” Freeman said.
The actor’s comments on Obama came in an interview with NPR’s Michael Martin.
Freeman also mentioned that he believes the president has been treated unfairly by members of the opposing party.
“He (Obama) is being purposely, purposely thwarted by the Republican Party, who started out at the beginning of his tenure by saying, ‘We are going to do whatever is necessary to make sure that he’s only going to serve one term’. That means they will not cooperate with him on anything. So to say he’s ineffective is a misappropriation of the facts,” he said.
