Yahoo News Piers Morgan faces backlash after blaming Kanye West for white girls singing ‘N-word’
Piers Morgan has been criticised for saying that rapper Kanye West is to blame for white girls singing the word “n****”.
The Good Morning Britain host argued that it isn’t racist for white people to use the word in the context of a rap song, after footage of US sorority girls singing along to West’s Gold Digger went viral this week.
“Even by the pathetically easily offended snowflake standards of modern day US campuses, this is ridiculous,” Morgan wrote in his MailOnline column.
“How can it possibly be racist to sing along to a song that was No1 in America for TEN WEEKS? And is the word ‘n****’ racist anyway?”
So Kanye can write it in a song he sells to millions of people, white & black, but I can't write it in a column or on Twitter? https://t.co/2exC3eYCKt
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 21, 2017
He added: “Oh, I know the word ‘n*****’ from which it is derived is racist. We all know that… But even among black people there is disagreement as to whether the word ‘n****’ is actually a racist or offensive term at all.”
Discussing the row over the video of the girls, which is now being investigated by University of New Hampshire officials, Morgan said they were just “young, free and partying”.
“I doubt any of them gave it a moment’s thought when Kanye’s song ‘Gold Digger’ began playing, and certainly not any racist thought,” he wrote.
piers morgan is actually obsessed with getting reactions out of black people. he's actually sick in the head.
— mi (@helloalegria) September 21, 2017
