Well done!

Your comment deserves more like

M. Harrison respect

M. Harrison I did not finish college. I have a associates in Psych. However I own 15 buildings. You are correct about grit!

Proud of you. :)

RoodyPooProd WELL SAID!!!

RoodyPooProd he's been in real shit that's why he can appreciate of what is now today situation

Awesome comment! ...Respect for Mr. Freeman!

And yet, you get millennials who've never seen any of that, who have the audacity to complain.

I was "blown away" -- in a VERY POSITIVE meaning of that phrase -- by what Morgan said. He points out that what has made America (and I suppose by extension, a lot of western democracies) is having a STRONG, VIBRANT MIDDLE CLASS. And pointed out accurately, (HEY!, ... the following is NO EXCUSE for the horrendous lack of timely disclosure by the Chinese govt re: COVID!!!) that China has had incredible growth for at least 15 years and probably a lot longer than that by developing a GIGANTIC middle class of consumers. What he and a few of you have pointed out that the American society he grew up in at Memphis was MUCH MORE RACIST than (probably) what Don L grew up in Baton Rouge decades later, and even more removed from USA in 2020. Does racism still exist in America?? Of course! But are we over time getting better? NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!!!

I see God talking to a snake.

Couldn't be more right!

@@williamsherman1089 I think Mr. Freeman put Don Lemon in his place very respectfully. That's how we should always discuss our differences. I have found that the last "weapon" that the left (and sometimes the right) has is "you're just racist." I don't care what color you are, I don't care what religion you are (or are not), I don't care what sex you are, what sex you think you are or what sex you want to be, as Mr. Freeman said, "If you set your mind to it and have the courage to do it then you can do it." BOTH of them are proof of that.

100% agree with you, Morgan is a great example of what a man should be. Not that he is perfect but a good example for all to follow.

@@stevelutzke9600 Morgan is Not a a excellent Black man....he is an EXCELLENT HUMAN BEING period. Spoken from an avg white guy or an avg human being. I grew up with Morgan from his days on the Electric Company. Don't really get any better then him!

Sheriff Clarke is a crackhead.

A sheriff that's addicted to smoking crack...great argument and insinuation. I'm glad you have constructive criticism for those you disagree with.

Barry Bernstein Yup, you nailed it... Don Lemon is a joke, have you checked out his ratings? its laughable that he still has a job

Barry Bernstein Morgans a liberal, thats why.

Barry Bernstein agreed. but with that being said... its morgan freeman

More black Americans like Mr. Freeman

Yes but In the world period

Dan Jams. you're a loser

Duy Nguyen watch the video. smdh

Duy Nguyen if u work hard, u will achieve ur goals, u think Morgan Freeman was born into wealth? No he worked to be where he is

Dan Jams I think it's possible for almost everyone unless they have some sort of debilitating mental illness or condition, but even then some who suffer in that way manage to succeed beyond even their own expectations.

@@jacintawills2446 no hes rich

you're a little dense race is a very important topic when talking about wealth inequality its not like he brought it up out of no where it was relevant to the discussion. He asked Morgan a valid question and was very polite about it and started a conversation.

Carmel Andeberhan Wealth is directly correlated to two parents households, finishing school and marriage before child bearing. Maybe Don could mention that if he is so concerned about HIS people’s inequality. Africans immigrants have a higher average income than native born Americans. 🤔

And WAY less Flavor Flavs!

@@OMGtheykilledKenny42=Way less Don Lemons too. One is one too many.

It should be more Morgan FreemEn. 😂😂😂

Somehow I have a feeling all you talk about is race, too.

He probably went too deep into a hole filed with snakes and now he can't even turn to look back.

@@v10ramTony how do you come to this conclusion based on what he said? Not even attacking, just very confused.

@BelowBlox well morgan didnt say racism didn’t exist. He denied its power to your own destiny

He can’t control himself when it comes to him wanting to be a victim.

suptrto Don Lemon is a racist, no doubt.

The fact lemon still has a job is a testament to the lie that is CNN and its agenda of hate!

2020 bro.... 2020😫

2020 same shit..

Don Lemon is a sycophant when it comes to talking with celebrities. Even if celebrity goes against CNN's rhetoric, Lemon will momentarily agree with them just to be on good terms with the popular celebs. Then he reveals his true colors in his daily segments.

I agree. We are our own greatest enemy, and champion, as it may be. Many blessings to you and your continued success.

Just death. But still the thought of it will never stop us

Seems like you're exaggerating the "EVERY TIME.. TRIED DRAGGING" part down. I pulled my cable bc of CNN. But Don was above board & respectful here.

@@baberRuth not once did I say he wasn’t being respectful. All I said was he’s doing as Don Lemon always does and as does most of the media these days. They throw questions at you to try and steer you in a direction they want you to go. And in this case the agenda was clear and Morgan Freeman saw right through it. Don Lemon was never able to get that “see” or “ah ha” moment he THOUGHT he would easily get. His facial expressions said it all with each answer Morgan Freeman gave him.

@@porschesgt1tt whatever

@@porschesgt1tt bet Mr Freeman wd give your post a dislike too. Don was politely being a "better" version of self here. But to post your dislike of MSM here is b as in B, s, as in S.

@@baberRuth what are you smoking dude? My original post was about how Don Lemon planned an interview hoping to push an agenda but his guest wouldn’t have any of that. Then you accuse me of saying he wasn’t being respectful, show me where I said this. It seems that most people saw the same thing as I did by the looks of their posts. Let me guess, you’re the type of person that only reads the first paragraph of an article or only watches the first couple of minutes of a video and then acts like he knows the entire content of the piece. And yes, most main stream media is worthless. You’re a fool if you think anything less.

701 etc: Great comment. I was in shock, a very happy shock, when I heard Morgan's several replies to D L. And let us not forget .... growing up in 1940s and 1950s in Memphis (Morgan's experience) had to be MUCH, MUCH more racist than Lemon's experiences in 1970s and early 1980s in Baton Rouge.

The robot malfunctioned, they repaired him immediately and the race baiting software has not malfunctioned since.

@@guyjackson1261 hahahaha

Mallory Cain Jr. you're like most blacks constant victim.

Amber Leigh I jst came across ur post its not shade its truth, knowledge , & have faith in one self love as i hope u have in yourself. have a nice day

The most famous and most unique! Love this man 💜

His and James Earl Jones

His and James Earl Jones

tonymaes88 I'll have to look him up

tonymaes88 just looked him up. . I recall who he is now. . Yeah, there's something very endearing about his voice as well as being phenomenal. . Thanks for the reminder

He would have if he meant it. He still does it after several years. There’s a reason why he’s still working for CNN

He just proved he is a puppet

I found that really odd coming from him, and it was kinda cool to hear him say that. I think Morgan Freeman really inspired him to go against what he was told to say. But inspiration wears off sometimes so I guess he went back to his old habits.

He said saying that would get him in trouble. And sure enough, he likely did get in trouble and was punished to talk about race on CNN for eternity

@@thesupermayoreo ROFL 🤣

And God ;-)

No he's not. Gee, that was hard.

He's A not THE voice of reason. Our parents were our voice of reason or whoever we wanted to follow or listen to. If we didn't listen to them? We can't or won't be able to get out of the rut we're in with our lives in society? Try and remember what your parents or whoever had the most influence in your life used with their wisdom. And maybe you can make a difference on your life? Hopefully.

@@earlputnal9124 If your parents were in extreme poverty...with no education...or in jail...or strung out on drugs...or in gangs...or dead...That's NOT the voice of reason. That's a recipe for disaster...unfortunately a large number of people in this country have that as their environment. They need to find POSITIVE role models. Harder to do...if nearly all your role models are bad. Need a LOT more mentors and people engaging in at risk communities...of all races.

@@davidc2838 Understood. But my family wasn't that way. And they also did instill sound and decent moral values. Unlike the idiot parents of today?

Imagine his reaction if Sheriff Clarke told him the same thing.

Lemon is the prototypical celebrity butt kisser. He would smile and nod to Morgan Freeman, and frown and disagree with Sheriff Clark, on the same topic.

@@tearl5676 Yep...because Sheriff Clarke is talking about a prison bus. Don't confuse the two.

y'all are acting like Don attacked Morgan for having a different view or something. They sat down like reasonable people and were able to respect each other and have a polite and guanine conversation despite their different views.

@@jhopestan4517 lol yeah they did. But thats not what don wants he wants to spread a message and he cant do that when someone like Morgan Freeman is there cause Mr.Freeman is smarter and more logical snd just wants everyone to coexist don wants riots and more shootings so he can continue to spread hate and a false narrative on impressionable young teens.

@@jhopestan4517 ln a vacuum you are correct, but this wasn't Don's first or last interview. Don tried to play the race card at every turn and it didn't work. What could he do, call him a deplorable? Don couldn't be his normal self with someone as wise and respected as Morgan.

Agree! Republican here and I would vote for him.

here we are in 2021 and white people are still unwilling to admit that racism is alive and well in American society because it makes them uncomfortable 🙃🤡

@@jhopestan4517 ..are there racist people sure there is...is there systemic racism like these news outlets spew out everyday and virtue signal every day since George Floyd, No there is not and facts and statistics back that up...so stop pushing a fake agenda please..

@@jhopestan4517 you sound dumb asf

@@jhopestan4517 yes you are right because you talk about it all the time, I don't know your race but you blaming on the whites is racism too. You stop talking about it then it dies a natural death otherwise you are only creating differences where it shouldn't exist

@@jhopestan4517 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Racism exists in your head.

Lizard people, holy shit they suddenly exist😂

@@rqb6731 concepts and physical things are different, I hope I don’t have to explain that to you

WAY more complicated than that... If you were born in a poor family...in a gang neighborhood...with ultra-high crime rate (murders, shootings, gang violence)...with a VERY high use of drugs and levels of addiction...and your "role models" are dead, in prison, on drugs or in gangs...you view that as "normal"...or the way things are. This is similar in poverty stricken rural white neighborhoods too...most people never leave those environments...it's all they know. Getting solid role models or connections to mentoring is key for getting out of those BAD situations. You can work your arse off in those situations...and you end up dead...or in prison...or leader of a gang...that will lead to the previous two situations most of the time.

@@davidc2838 Poor families exist all over the world and they aren't killing each other. Who is it glorifying gang culture and single parent households? Enough of the excuses it isn't working. Ben Carson came out of inner city Detroit and became the best doctor the world has ever known. Why? Because he didn't make excuses and blame Whitney for everything. Today, they chiseled his name off his highschool. Go figure.

@@mark5862 Baloney. Poor families exist all over the world and MANY are fighting or killing each other...or have to deal with Drugs, Warlords and Gang Members. It's NOT just the US that has these problems. There are PLENTY of countries that the poorest people do NOT have major opportunities, they are routinely pressed into service of the Drug Lords or Local Warlords or Gangs. This is a very prevalent way of life in many countries. Don't think it isn't. If the MAJORITY of your older people in the neighborhood are involved in Gang Violence you have a WAY higher chance of being involved in a Gang. That's WHY Morgan Freeman's parents MOVED from the South, where Racism was HIGHLY prevalent in his youth. It was NOT an area that was likely to have a good outcome for a young black man back in his era.

bs! did you even listen ?

Ew

John Boehmer no, not only in America, it can happen in many other countries as well. Having grown up in Spain, Amancio Ortega, comes to mind. He was born to a railroad worker in the North of Spain, left school at 14, and started working for a shirt maker where he learned to make clothes by hand. Fast forward 20 years, he opened his first clothing store “Zara”. In 2020, he’s the eighth richest person in the world.

@@LluviadeOrugas I'll agree with that, but the lie that it's so much more difficult to succeed for non-whites because of racism I'm exposing is in America, not Spain.

John Boehmer right, anyone can succeed almost anywhere in the world no matter their skin color or race, and it’s true, it might be easier to accomplish in the US. My husband came to this country from Spain about 25 years ago, speaking barely any English and with just an eighth grade education, but by working hard, never depending on anyone, and saving his money, he was able to invest in income properties, and is now doing very well for himself and his family. He had a goal and didn’t stop until he accomplished it, making no excuses for himself.

Beautiful story, God bless

@@johnboehmer6683 You're exposing your lack of knowledge...but that's OK...we didn't expect you to understand. Were YOUR parents able to vote in the 1950's and early 60's??? If so, they probably weren't black people in the deep south. Jim Crow was distinctly more harsh on POCs in almost every way. Morgan's Parents had to MOVE from Memphis to Chicago...just so they could get jobs. Don't kid yourself. There are significant disadvantages for POCs in the US. Doesn't mean that you can't get out of it...but it certainly is NOT an advantage. It IS a disadvantage. Redlining for Credit and Mortgages is STILL a thing. So is Gerrymandering to stop people from getting representation in the government. Black people are incarcerated in state prisons at FIVE TIMES (500%) the rate of white people per capita. Killed by police at almost 250% of what white people are killed at per capita. Yeah...it's still a problem in the US. Just cause it's better than in the 40's and 50's doesn't mean that we're there yet.

You can be tired of talking about something but still feel morally inclined to continue talking about it.

Anthony WOW. I've had a rough life also but nothing compared to yours!! Briefly; abusive parents and no one cared..everyone looked the other way. We all (8 kids) got out as soon as we could, most by age 16. At first I played the victim - got pregnant and married to an abuser. But two kids and six years later I decided I'd had enough. I left (under threat of death) with two small children and a job I had just gotten making $4/hr before taxes. It is definitely hard when you have young kids to care for but it's not impossible. I did not run to welfare or food stamps but I did get help with daycare costs. My ex didn't want to pay child support but the courts made him and then that paid daycare instead of program. He threatened my life and character for the next 18 years. During that time I worked hard taking care of kids (one learning disabled) with no family support whatsoever. I eventually bought income property and became a landlord as well as work. A tiny 115lb girl learned how to roof, drywall, run electric wire, fix plumbing, etc. I never got rich, actually lower middle class, but I was always a contributer to society a d not a taker. The rest of the 7 kids were whiners about their life and never amounted to anything, on welfare, in jail, or dead at early age. It is all about determination AND responsibility. I was smart with money and paying bills, etc. I never remarried or even had 'help' from a boyfriend because it was important to me to succeed by myself. And not that it should matter, but I'm white.

We have so many parallels. I'm male so obviously I didn't get pregnant but somewhere in that mix of life I got a 16 year old girl pregnant when I was 15. She lived in a wealthy part of town. She and I broke up before she was showing. Years later I found out I had a son who to this day I've never met. I befriended a young kid after my second year in the box car named Richard Segnar. He was from an abusive home too. We watched each other's backs while living in the car. When I was 18, we hitchhiked to Clayton Oklahoma where I joined a Geo seismic company what sent me to school in Houston. I left Richard with his new friends there. I didn't hear from him until 20 years later. We all sort of separated after I turned 18. I wrote a book called "Estoppels" which is available on Amazon. (A lot of political activists have taken to my books and began attacking them lately. Not too sure why.) We suffer pains but we celebrate moments that make us feel like king for a day. I can honestly tell you that the suffering I did was beyond what most people could handle. I'm covered in stitches from head to toe, I've broken every bone in my body in street fights and I've been shot multiple times and yet.. I wouldn't go back and change a thing. With these horrid events that happened in my life... also came adventure beyond anyone's wildest imagination. No need to make things up... because life offers us moments no movie could honestly represent the tale of our stories. I am the Great grandson of the first Native American Indian Senator... Uriah Thomas Rexroat. Grandson of the wealthiest Indian princess Opal Rexroat and son of a famous author "David Sunset Carson author of the Medicine cards. And though my family was from extreme wealth, I lived in squalor. I ate things that would make a billy goat puke and I survived while the rest of my family (Not my brother Jon or Sister Jacqui) but the rest of the family wined and dined in the presence of Hollywood elites and like. I would often read about their exploits and wonder what it would be like to be one of them. To never worry where my next meal was coming from and if I had a warm bed to lay my head at night. I have what I want. I appreciate what I have and I'm thankful to my mother earth for the opportunity to be here.. to have a voice and to make a difference. I love my country and pay homage to all the things she offers and NEVER will I EVER show disdain or disrespect to her and will fight to the death if necessary anyone who would try and take my country away from my children or grandchildren. Because this is the way I feel, I'm being attacked.. being made irrelevant by attrition. I have to say though.. you sound rich. Rich in life.. Rich with adventure and rich with the family you've created. Obviously you're rich with money smarts.. (I'm not.. I'm constantly giving my money to those without when I should be doing something more to help them help themselves.) Thank you for sharing your wonderful story.. I'm sure there's more ahead for you.. so enjoy the journey.

Thank you for your response. I have never felt the need to be wealthy with money but have tried hard to take care of myself and my children. I have worked in public life which enabled me to give hope, love, kindness, and honestly to people who appreciated it more than money (which I didn't have) ever could have provided. I have endured many other hardships but continue to push past it all. I strive to make a good (but humble) life for my children and grandchildren. So I am totally with you on the fight to the death for saving this country from destroying itself. Big oil and big money is the root of all evil, and of late so are selfish minds. I wish the best to you and your family. I will look up your book, quite an accomplishment!! Peace to you fellow spirit.

The law of estoppel, estoppel conduct, estoppel and variation , etc, etc. There's too many on Amazon to know which is yours. Do you have a link??

Estoppels... it's neologism of plurality of placing the stopper in the bottle. Not estoppel in singular past tense. www.amazon.com/Estoppels-Anthony-R-Carson-ebook/dp/B00TT8NFQU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497459620&sr=8-1&keywords=estoppels+anthony+carson Thank You.

Based? WTF did you mistype?

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Don't worry Morgan Freeman's Mind is more powerful than CNN and their bullshitartist post CNN could ever be

Probably the first time those words passed his lips in a decade, due to the company.

Some people just LOVE to spew hate. Ironic isn't it.

Mcufre Ummm. Central Africa -- before white exploration and long before the slave trade -- was a cluster of kingdoms in which Africans warred and .... enslaved the losers. It was only later with the arrival of European and American slavers that those kingdoms began trading their existing slaves (and of course continued capturing new ones). It's a nice fairytale to imagine that everyone was living in harmony before the supremacist whites came along, but it's simply not true. Strife exists and has existed everywhere humans congregate, and Africans are no exception. The warlords who reign in some of the African countries today exist IN SPITE of all the foreign aid, charity, and missionary work that comes from the U.S. and goes to Africa. At some point in history, the people of a country (or a continent for that matter) have to take responsibility for their attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate their conditions.

Mackberserk I didn't say they lived in harmony with each other, I said they lived in harmony with their environment. Meaning they had a culture appropriate to be self sufficient in their own land(in a mostly rudimentary manner). Of course what you say is true but I never disagreed with that. My point is that when we intervened in the African's life and introduced him to our alien form of life, we disrupted their balance with their surroundings which they had kept for thousands of years (regardless of the tribal warring) and these simple races haven't yet been able to recover from the trauma. Now it's all biting us in the ass. If we had just gone over there and traded for what we wanted and then left, all these racial problems we see nowadays wouldn't exist and we'd all be doing much better.

@Mcufre: How do you give reparations? How do you even figure that out (assuming it is appropriate)??? Emancipation occurred in 1865, and what black people did with their lives after that wouldn't count in the reparations. So how do you figure out which families were enslaved between 1609 and 1865, and where their descendants are now, to give reparations to them? (We can't even keep the voting records straight) Besides, so many black people have been supported by our welfare system for two generations or more, so I'd say in SOME cases, they've been paid back several times over. Some cases.. not all, of course. Regarding "forming their own nation" : if you look at the overall state of black people in America, how would allowing them to "create their own nation" fix anything? That's a scary idea, to me! Let's say you did that -- who would want to join it? Would you get a good enough ratio of educated people to uneducated people, to make such a nation successful in being a good place to live and raise your family? Where would you put it? That kind of talk sounds real "pc", but it's just not practical. Neither idea really is.

Gerrie Louden The real question Gerrie is, who cares? Who cares what happens to them after they leave? Who cares how much money they are owed? The government can create debt like a press prints newspapers(and often trillions disappear without no one knowing where they went), let them print a few trillions and give it to them. What will they do with that money? probably nothing at all, but when they're gone that won't be your problem anymore. You won't have any more angry "youths" who blame whites for all their problems roaming around your cities raping and killing. No more diversity quotas or affirmative action. In fact you could send the liberals to this new black nation as well (they would be glad to go there I'm sure, however I'm in doubt if the blacks would accept them. Maybe if there were young white women in the pack you could strike a deal). The real question you should be making yourself is, how would your part of the nation would look after a few years of not having that burden upon yourselves? Oh it would look good, very very good. Think of the best places in America and then make it all like that and you'd have a glimpse of what getting rid of this racial problem would do to you. How much money would such thing cost? in my opinion no amount is high enough to pay for peace and prosperity. Much less when it's paid on worthless government debt.

Mcufre So... introducing them to Western traditions, culture, and inductive thinking... has somehow made them LESS equipped to be self-sufficient in their own environment? I don't want to put words into your mouth so let me know if I'm misunderstanding you. I'm having trouble tracing past Western influence in Africa to the warlords, grinding poverty, and tribal living that exists today. The default of the human condition throughout world history is poverty, tribalism, and war. It's only Western thinking (the enlightenment, political representative government, religious tolerance, etc.) which have lifted humans out of subservience and destitution in the last 400 years or so. In fact, everywhere Western influence has NOT taken hold of today still suffers from widespread poverty, high illiteracy rates, high mortality rates (adult and infant), starvation, mass pollution, etc. etc. etc. Given this ubiquitous reality, how is it possible that the current conditions of Africans are the cause of Western influence? In other words, why is it you believe that the perpetual chaos in many African countries today is the result of Western influence when Africans currently suffer from the same problems (hunger, shortage of water, war, sanitation issues, etc.) that they faced BEFORE we came in contact with them? The only factor I can come up with is disease... but South and Central American populations were also decimated by diseases brought by Westerners... and today those entire continents are eons ahead of most African countries. As a final note I notice that you make it sound as if Africans had a fragile ecosystem that could not survive if "contaminated" by outside influence. If we were talking about a backwards country attacking and imposing their values on a more advanced country, then I might be able to see why the formerly advanced country reverted to tribalism... but even then, only for a century or two. Africa has not changed in any significant way (except for South Africa due to colonization... and for the better... also Uganda, Kenya, and a couple other notables) since 1000 years ago. I guess my point is that Western influence, even when mixed with colonialism or imperialism (compare British-ruled India to independent India after the British left), has had an overwhelmingly positive NET affect on non-Western countries. Those countries may not have liked being dictated to or colonized, and who would, but bringing the rule of law, free trade, and tolerance to a backwards place like Somalia, for instance, is NOT a bad thing. It would benefit the people there enormously.