The Sunday Times’s Culture magazine in which he discussed his views on race.“Two things I can say publicly that I do not like.
Black History Month is an insult. You’re going to relegate my history to a month?” he questioned.“Also ‘African-American’ is an insult.
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’.”He continued: “What does it really mean?
Most Black people in this part of the world are mongrels. And you say Africa as if it’s a country when it’s a continent, like Europe.” As a point of comparison, he mentioned that people talk about Italian-Americans or Irish-Americans rather than describing themselves as Euro-Americans.Elsewhere in the interview, Freeman discussed the importance of representation on screen.
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