Former CNN host Piers Morgan offered his opinion on the use of the N-word, and John Legend was not here for it. In a column for Daily Mail titled, “If black Americans want the N-word to die, they will have to kill it themselves,” Morgan called for the expunging of the term by Black people as the solution to other race’s use of the word and John was so anti-Piers.
I am sorry John, All Of Me agrees with Piers! Charity does begin at home.
I believe the crux of the matter is because the N-word article was written by a white dude! #My2Cents.
Read on and let us know what you think.
He wrote:
I am sorry John, All Of Me agrees with Piers! Charity does begin at home.
I believe the crux of the matter is because the N-word article was written by a white dude! #My2Cents.
Read on and let us know what you think.
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’s response? Try again, Piers. In a series of Twitter replies to Morgan’s essay, the singer 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 in intervene on Legend’s retort, but the singer remained steadfast, before dismissing Morgan altogether:
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
@piersmorgan I can think of countless things that would help more.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) November 11, 2014
I respect your opinion @johnlegend - but I never claimed it was the biggest race issue. I just think the N-word should be expunged, period.
— 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 Assume black people stopped saying the word, and then white people had no excuse to say it, what exactly would that solve?
— John Legend (@johnlegend) November 11, 2014
Piers is talking sense.
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