Piers Morgan thinks - like many white men have thought for centuries - that he knows what's best for Black people in America.
In an essay he posted today Piers Morgan says that the word nigga must be "Tied to a literary post and whipped into brutal submission" (yes, this IDIOT used a metaphor relating a word tied to slavery to being whipped; how sensitive). In the essay he didn't outright order the Black community to halt all use of the word, but he surely did SUGGEST that we should stop using the word for our own good. Piers Morgan has no idea what the HELL HE IS TALKING ABOUT. I could go on forever but I have a rhetoric paper to edit and I'm sure you have lives to get onto so I'll give you three reasons why you shouldn't listen to people who are arrogant enough to suggest that they know best when it comes to life as a Black American 1) Morgan argues that WE should stop saying nigga because it gives "your average dim-witted foul-mouthed bigot" the right to say it. Sure, because dim-witted foul-mouthed bigots usually seek permission before using racially charged and insulting language. 2) Morgan says that making the word a term of endearment and empowerment for blacks while making it taboo for whites doesn't work. Really? How many white people had no problem saying "nigger" in the 1960's? Now you'll be hard pressed to find any white adult willing to say the word even in the confidence of one other person, let alone in a public setting. At the same time, blacks use it to mean brotherhood, friends, and family. I know I do, and guess what; IT FEELS GOOD. "Yeah man that's my nigga," not only is it a term I only would use for a brother or friend, but it also just rolls off of the tongue so nicely...... 3) Piers Morgan views the word as a "grotesque, odious, and evil stain on the English language." This ignores that language is culturally constructed, symbolic in nature, and fluid. Words may have a certain meaning to one person, and a totally different meaning to another. For example; a whip to one person is an object used to punish, however, to another a whip may be another word for a car. Or maybe consider the word Cornhole, which to many people is something you would tell a neurotic person to shut, but in the midwest it is a game very similar to bean bag toss. Not only is language largely based on culture, but also on context. You know by the context of a conversation when I say the word "ass" if I am talking about a farm animal, or one of the more sexualized parts of the human body. Morgan implies that we can't use the word responsibly in an informal context, without also using it in the context of a racial slur. I hope with all of my being that Piers Morgan reads this. So READ IT, REPOST IT, RETWEET IT, AND TAG PIERS MORGAN. I'd like to end with a little message to Mr. Morgan from my good friend Biggie Smalls: "And if you don't know, now you know nigga" -515
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