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Well Morgan Freeman has publicly commented on that pretty explicitly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeixtYS-P3s

What does that have to do with anything? Have you done a survey of all blacks, or even all black actors, to arrive at anything resembling a consensus? Why do you cite Morgan Freeman's opinion and not others?

Well it's one opinion directly related to the parent comment's hypothetical question.

No I do not have a double blind controlled study on the opinion of black history month, but I thought Freeman's comment was obviously relevant and interesting.

I cited him and not others because this is the clip I had seen and remembered.

Well Morgan Freeman has publicly commented on that pretty explicitly

That's just as silly as stating Lucy Liu's hypothetical opinion on the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (yes it does exist) [1]:

"Well Lucy Liu has publicly commented on that pretty explicitly".

Unless of course you think Morgan Freeman's opinions count more than Lucy Liu's. But I don't think you do, thankfully.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Pacific_American_Heritage...

It was a link to a video making a relevant argument that happened to be by Morgan Freeman.

I'm not sure what your point is?

Should I have just linked the youtube video without any context?

Black History Month may have not been the best example, but I think there is value in highlighting success of minorities in a field where there aren't as many minority models to look up to.

I think the argument Freeman makes is that that sense of value is misguided and actually serves to perpetuate the problem.

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