Apparently it is now black people’s responsibility to “kill the N-word,” according to Piers Morgan in his latest op-ed entitled, “If black Americans want the N-word to die, they will have to kill it themselves.”
And what a joke that is.
Piers Morgan didn’t tell us anything we don’t already know. A lot of black people use the N-word, but don’t like when people outside of the race use it. No joke, Sherlock. But his point is to say if we (black people) want to abolish the N-word then we have to stop using it.
Piers goes into some weird rant about beating and whipping the N-word out of our vocabulary. “But this will ONLY happen when America’s black community applies the same level of tolerance to its own use of the word,” Piers rambles.
Uh, no. That is where you are wrong, sir.
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Even if black people stopped using the word today, there’s a large group of non-black people that will continue to use it in the offensive way it was initially designed. Why? Because the N-word was something white people made “a thing.” And now because some white people feel uncomfortable with it, they want black people to take the blame for it, take it back and essentially clean up their dirty work.
I mean he said “themselves” not “together.” That’s “themselves” as in black people take full responsibility. This guy is delusional.
Here’s an idea. Instead of focusing on black people’s use of the word, like so many white people in the media love to do, let’s get to the root of why we use it in the first place. My guess is, there’s some psychological reason why this word is part of black culture. An even better guess is it stems back to slavery when black people weren’t called anything other than a nigga.
That’s the only N-word conversation I might entertain. The “why” conversation. What I won’t entertain is Piers Morgan or any other non-black person for that matter, telling me what I have to do about it.
Am I saying the N-word is cool? No. What I am saying is that black people shouldn’t have to answer to a white person about it. And they most definitely don’t have to take responsibility for “killing” a word they didn’t create.
Do I think Piers Morgan is a racist? I personally don’t care if he is or not. I do, however, think he’s an unqualified idiot to even start this conversation. A better op-ed subject and title is: Where The Hell Is Darren Wilson & Why Is He Not Rotting In A Jail Cell?
Get over yourselves white people. We’ve got bigger things on our plate right now.
