Morgan Freeman has been revealed as the latest Hollywood A-lister to drop $1million to President Obama’s re-election effort, weeks after The Dark Knight Rises star caused a stir with remarks about the president’s racial background. The Oscar-winning actor’s big donation to Priorities USA Action, the ‘super’ political action committee backing the president, was announced on Thursday and will be reported in the group’s federal disclosures on Friday. Freeman’s donation came after controversial remarks about Obama’s heritage the actor made to NPRearlier this month, where he said the U.S. is still yet to have its first black president. Freeman said during the July 5 interview: ‘First thing that pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier…they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white – very white American, Kansas, middle of America.’ ‘There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America’s first Black president hasn’t arisen yet. ‘He is not America’s first Black president – he’s America’s first mixed-race president.’