Why…did… HE …write…this??? Because we all care what Piers Morgan (of all people) thinks about black people’s use of the word… Via The Daily Mail: N****r. A 6-letter noun in the English language which the dictionary defines as ‘a contemptuous term for a black or dark-skinned person’. It’s such an inflammatory and offensive word that for any high profile white person to publicly use it, without abbreviating to ‘N-word’, is rightly tantamount to professional suicide and personal opprobrium. I don’t use it; would never use it. But it has become astonishingly ubiquitous in modern American society. The reason it is so ingrained in pop culture is that many blacks, especially young blacks reared to the soundtrack of N-word splattered rap music, use it in an ironic way. They’re aware of its history; they know from their parents and grandparents that arrogant, dumb, racist whites used it as a wicked, derogatory insult against their black slave forebears. And they enjoy the freedom of being able to say it now in the knowledge that it’s become taboo for whites to do so. I understand this, and empathise. Far from ‘owning’ these words, seizing back control with the use of them, I believe it merely serves to empower those who wish to deploy them abusively – and encourage them to continue doing so. Your average dim-witted, foul-mouthed bigot – and there are plenty of them as Twitter can attest – thinks: ‘If they use it, why can’t I?’ They hear African-Americans say the N-word to each other and claim victory: ‘See, that’s what they even call themselves!’ It’s the twisted, horrible mind-set of the wretchedly ignorant. The N-word is a grotesque, odious, evil stain on the English language. It symbolises everything multi-cultural America has fought so hard to move on from – white-run, imperialist, violent, sexually malevolent barbarism. 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. 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. Teach the youth of today the N-word is so heinous that even to repeat it ironically is to perpetuate its poison. As a white man, I have no right to demand that any black person gives up using the N-word. But as someone who believes passionately in civil rights, I just think it’s the right thing to do. Sooooo if we want racism to die does that mean we have to “kill it” too or nah??? Needless to say Twitter is none too pleased with Piers little click bait essay & they’re currently ripping into him…. “you know who I bet has a hot take on the whole n-word thing? *piers morgan* that’s who.” — somebody last week at the daily mail — Matt Fraction (@mattfraction) November 10, 2014 thanks @piersmorgan now I’M NOT SAYING N-WORD NO MO’ I’M DELIVIT *praise dances down the aisle* — David D. (@DavidDTSS) November 10, 2014 and Piers is responding. Is it what I wrote that offended, #BlackTwitter – or the skin colour of the man who wrote it? #NWord — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 10, 2014 Trying to work out how my plea for everyone to stop using the N-word apparently makes me a racist. — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 10, 2014 SMH… What do YOU think about what Piers said??? Hit the flip for more reactions???
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But Who Asked You?! Piers Morgan Gets Slammed For Saying That Black People Should ‘Kill The N-Word’
