I've generally liked Morgan Freeman's acting and now I find I like his common sense as well.
YouTube - Off The Plantation Thinking
YouTube - Off The Plantation Thinking
My bad lol
And I'm always surprised by those who turn out to be just another lying cheat.
A lying cheat who sleeps with his step granddaughter!
Regardless what his personal life is, his point is right on the button.
If we are to take race relations seriously in this country, it starts with Rev. King's point that you should not look at the person's color but their character.
I liked him in Electric Company. You take an m that's mmm, and an o-p op. Put em all together and they spell mop.
People like Spike Lee, Spike Moss, Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan, etc. must continue to stoke the fires of racism or they would be out of a job. Uncle Toms like Cosby and Freemen make for great fuel....the successes of others among the black community are dictated by those who feel there has to be racism under every rock.
It should come as no surprise that opinions like those of Freeman and Cosby some from members of a generation that grew up in the 1950s. It's fair to say that the ruination of black culture is a direct result of LBJ's Great Society nonsense and other meddling by government liberals. Granted, the civil rights movement was overdue and needed to be implemented. However, the results speak for themselves; something is seriously wrong in a culture that creates youth who think of a prison sentence as a badge of honor and whose primary ambitions are to be rap stars or professional football or basketball players"In my "Black Education Disaster" column (12/22/10), I presented National Assessment of Educational Progress test data that demonstrated that an average black high school graduate had a level of reading, writing and math proficiency of a white seventh- or eighth-grader. The public education establishment bears part of the responsibility for this disaster, but a greater portion is borne by black students and their parents, many of whom who are alien and hostile to the education process.
Let's look at the education environment in many schools and ask how conducive it is to the education process. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nationally during 2007-2008, more than 145,000 teachers were physically attacked. Six percent of big-city schools report verbal abuse of teachers and 18 percent report non-verbal disrespect for teachers.
An earlier NCES study found that 18 percent of the nation's schools accounted for 75 percent of the reported incidents of violence, and 6.6 percent accounted for 50 percent. So far as serious violence, murder and rapes, 1.9 percent of schools reported 50 percent of the incidents. The preponderance of school violence occurs in big-city schools attended by black students.
What's the solution? Violence, weapons-carrying, gang activity and student or teacher intimidation should not be tolerated. Students engaging in such activity should be summarily expelled.
Some might worry about the plight of expelled students. I think we should have greater concern for those students whose education is made impossible by thugs and the impossible learning environment they create.
Another part of the black education disaster has to do with the home environment. More than 70 percent of black children are born to unwedded mothers, who are often themselves born to unwedded mothers. Today's level of female-headed households is new in black history. Until the 1950s, almost 80 percent of black children lived in two-parent households, as opposed to today's 35 percent..."
Black Education - Walter E. Williams - Townhall Conservative
Talk about hitting the bulls-eye - Dr. Williams sums up the situation quite nicely."Some of today's black political leadership is around my age, 75, such as Reps. Maxine Waters, Charles Rangel, John Conyers, former Virginia governor Douglas Wilder, Jesse Jackson and many others. Forget that they are liberal Democrats but ask them whether their parents, kin or neighbors would have tolerated children cursing to, or in the presence of, teachers and other adults. Ask them what their parents would have done had they assaulted an adult or teacher. Ask whether their parents would have accepted the grossly disrespectful behavior seen among many black youngsters on the streets and other public places using foul language and racial epithets. Then ask why should today's blacks tolerate something our ancestors would not.
The sorry and tragic state of black education is not going to be turned around until there's a change in what's acceptable and unacceptable behavior by young people. The bulk of that change has to come from within the black community."