"You're going to relegate my history to a month?" the 68-year-old actor says in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" to air Sunday (7 p.m. EST). "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history."
Black History Month has roots in historian Carter G. Woodson's Negro History Week, which he designated in 1926 as the second week in February to mark the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Woodson said he hoped the week could one day be eliminated — when black history would become fundamental to American history.
Freeman notes there is no "white history month," and says the only way to get rid of racism is to "stop talking about it."
The actor says he believes the labels "black" and "white" are an obstacle to beating racism.
"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man"
Banjo said:What about Festivus?
WordInterrupted said:Oh... good, I'm glad. I'm sorry, I do get a little carried away, but I'm so worried that all the brown people and black people and strange foriegners are polluting Western Culture. If we don't stop this "Happy Holidays" bleeding heart facist PC multiculturalism, the United States could become just another Third World Country full of poor colored people. We must defend the Sacred Santa Traditions of Western Civilization against the Liberals and Terrorists if it's the very last thing we do.
To truly become one human race, we must de-emphasize our differences, and concentrate on what makes us the same.