"Most of the people that are criticizing the Tea Partiers about having a racist element, they have never been to a Tea Party," Cain said on Fox News.
Freeman, who sat with CNN, Piers Morgan, in an interview broadcast Friday night, said that since Americans voted the first black president in the White House in 2008, racism has gotten worse, not better.
The "Invictus" star of this puts the burden on the motion of Tea Party policy, saying that Obama has become a target for "racist" Tea Party of the attack, Reuters reported.
"Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term," Freeman said. "What's, what does that, what underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here."
Freeman, who supported Obama during his presidential campaign, but refused to campaign with him, said, "is something racist," and increasing the Tea Party is proof that hatred still exists in America.
"Well, it just shows the weak, dark, underside of America," he said. "We're supposed to be better than that. We really are. That's, that's why all those people were in tears when Obama was elected president. 'Ah, look at what we are. Look at how, this is America.' You know? And then it just sort of started turning because these people surfaced like stirring up muddy water."
Despite the criticism, Cain said he was not offended by the comments of Freeman.
"Name-calling is something that is going to continue in this because they don't know how to stop this movement and this movement is making a big difference in politics," said Cain, former CEO of Godfather's Pizza.
According to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll of likely Republican primary voters, Cain ranks fifth among candidates.
