If this weren’t in India, I think you might call it racist. He played Nelson Mandela in a movie, but that probably doesn’t justify mistaking Morgan Freeman for Madiba himself. An Indian businessman is red-faced after financing a billboard honoring the late South African leader which features a photo of the actor Morgan Freeman, who played Mandela in 2009’s Invictus. “We should be proud that we were part of an era when they lived,” reads the Tamil-language sign posted in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. “We will replace it with the correct picture of Mandela,” says the businessman, adding that he didn’t know how the mix-up occurred, but that it was the designer who was to blame. Sure, blame the designer – no one else laid eyes on it before it was printed. (via Gawker)