Morgan Freeman, who won Oscar this week for best supporting actor in 'Million Dollar Baby', has accused his fellow African-Americans of supporting hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and said that he might join the group in protest.

The actor, who fought lawmakers in 2001 to change the slave flag's design, refused to join the battle to remove the Confederate battle flag in the corner of the ensign of his home state of Mississippi.

"The flag, the stars and bars, has personal resonance to me because to me it doesn't represent so much the south as a very negative mind-set that is not necessarily southern," femalefirst quoted Freeman as saying.

"You see that flag wherever you see skinheads, radical right wingers, neo-Nazis, any hate group. It's pitiful. They still feel that they do not have a say. That's why they don't do it. That's the apathy part of it... It's too bad. Maybe now I'll go and join the Ku Klux Klan," he said.

Posted by Lawren at March 3, 2005 06:45 AM

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