"The first thing that always pops into my head regarding our president, is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him... They just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white - very white; American, Kansas, middle of America. There is no argument about who he is, or what he is. America's first black president hasn't arisen yet. He's not America's first black president. He's America's first mixed-race president."

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Source: Morgan Freeman: No Black President For U.S. Yet. Tell Me More with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 3, 2012.

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Morgan Freeman

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Morgan Freeman is an acclaimed actor and filmmaker known for his powerful voice and roles in films like 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'Driving Miss Daisy.'

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