Piers Morgan (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images) and John Legend (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for MAC Presents)
Piers Morgan got into a Twitter debate with singer over the use of the “N-word” after the former CNN host .
In the piece, Morgan suggested that the word will only be eradicated from usage “when America’s black community applies the same level of tolerance to its own use of the word as that now applied in the National Football League: zero.”
The backlash was swift.
entered the fray via his Twitter account:
ya'll better thank for providing that simple, straightforward solution to racism. So brilliant. why didn't we think of this??? — John Legend (@johnlegend)
Morgan was understandably defensive:
I wasn't offering a 'solution to racism' – I was suggesting something that might help a bit. Am I wrong? — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan)
Legend fired right back:
I can think of countless things that would help more. — John Legend (@johnlegend)
what you suggested was actually useless and directed the blame for racism on the victims' use of a word. focus elsewhere. — John Legend (@johnlegend)
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)
Morgan’s “column” has been shared nearly 20,000 times, according to the Daily Mail. The debate lingers on…
