John Legend tears down Piers Morgan’s attempt to blame blacks for the use of the N-word
Former CNN host Piers Morgan weighed in on the use of the N-word, and John Legend quickly shut his theory down.
In a column for the Daily Mail titled, “If black Americans want the N-word to die, they will have to kill it themselves,” Morgan called for blacks to eradicate the term as a solution to banning use of the word by all races.
He wrote:
Yet far from receding in society, it’s spreading; out of the once clearly defined confines of private usage in the black community, into the public hallways of every school in America.
This has to be wrong, doesn’t it?
Better, surely, to have it expunged completely. Eradicated, obliterated, tied to a literary post and whipped into such brutal submission that it never rears its vicious head again.
John Legend took to Twitter with his responses to Morgan’s essay. Needless to say he denounced the idea:
ya’ll better thank @piersmorgan for providing that simple, straightforward solution to racism. So brilliant. why didn’t we think of this???
— John Legend (@johnlegend) November 11, 2014
“If only this entire race of hundreds of millions of diverse people would agree on a vocabulary change, people would treat them better” — John Legend (@johnlegend) November 11, 2014
Morgan attempted to intervene on Legend, but he did not back down:
I wasn’t offering a ‘solution to racism’ @johnlegend – I was suggesting something that might help a bit. Am I wrong?
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 11, 2014
So can I, but that doesn’t mean what I suggest is wrong > RT @johnlegend @piersmorgan I can think of countless things that would help more.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 11, 2014
@piersmorgan That’s why it’s a useless suggestion that completely misses the real issue. Thanks for trying though, I guess.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) November 11, 2014
Did Piers Morgan have a point, or was John Legend’s dismissal accurate?
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