Piers Morgan Vs John Legend Twitfight: How Black Americans Can Kill The N-Word

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. He wrote:

"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: