When Morgan Freeman told Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes that Black History Month was “ridiculous,” many heard dismissal. What he was actually doing was asking a harder question. Was Freeman pushing colorblindness or challenging America to do the real work so race stops defining how we’re seen? He wasn’t denying Black history. He was rejecting the idea that it should be contained, regulated, or confined to one month. Freeman knows that everywhere he goes, he’s still seen as a Black man just as Wallac

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