Piers Morgan has yet again made insensitive statements about race on social media, causing outrage among many black users on Twitter.
Morgan sparked controversy on Thursday when he retweeted Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson.
I love my blackness. And yours.
— deray mckesson (@deray) October 8, 2015
I love my whiteness and your blackness. > RT @deray I love my blackness. And yours.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 8, 2015
Some Twitter users were quick to school Morgan on his white privilege and how the comment was both offensive and a jab at the intention behind Mckesson's original tweet.
"I literally have all the advantages in the world by virtue of whiteness, but PLEASE include me." - @piersmorgan's subtext
— Dr. Cornrow West (@jazzmen_k) October 8, 2015
@piersmorgan @deray Why must you always feel the need to be included?
— There's No E In Cory (@CoryTownes) October 8, 2015
@piersmorgan @deray No one's talking about your whiteness. Your whiteness isn't an existential threat, embraced despite reckless hate
— Kwame Opam (@kwameopam) October 8, 2015
Morgan defended himself, telling black Twitter to "relax."
It's called #Twitter. > RT @iBeVanessa I'm waiting for the day Piers Morgan realizes that he's not welcome on #BlackTwitter. Go away.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 8, 2015
Dear #BlackTwitter, Me saying I love white and black people isn't the most scandalous comment of the day. Relax.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 8, 2015
McKesson later addressed the problem with Morgan's celebration of whiteness as a dismissal of the inequality that people of color experience.
This is an exceptional example of how whiteness needs to be centered, how whiteness can't imagine not participating. https://t.co/RSPltclcv3
— deray mckesson (@deray) October 8, 2015
Morgan still stands by his actions, and issued a direct tweet on Friday.
Memo to #BlackTwitter: I'm not ashamed to be white, nor am I ashamed of my record fighting for racial equality & against racial injustice.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 9, 2015
Earlier this year, Morgan was accused of delegitimizing the Black Lives Matter movement after he tweeted "all lives matter" to then-HuffPost Live Host, Marc Lamont Hill.
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