Former CNN anchor Piers Morgan says black people cause use of the n-word
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Channel: The Dr Boyce Watkins Black Excellence Channel · 2014 · People & Blogs
British anchor Piers Morgan took over Larry King’s coveted prime time spot on CNN but was piers morgan2fired after he failed to meet expectations. Although Morgan is gone from CNN, he’s not forgotten, largely because he insists on sharing his opinion on just about everything. In his latest assessment, Morgan puts the responsibility of ending usage of the “N” word on black people. The “N” word was created by white racists and has gone mainstream, but according to Morgan, it’s up to black people to end the “N” word. Although Morgan says he would never use the inflammatory racial slur, he does believe that blacks need to take their share of responsibility for the word. “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,” explained Morgan. “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.”
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