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. October 8, 2015 I love my whiteness and your blackness. > RT @deray I love my blackness. And yours. 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, …
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.
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. ;
Morgan ;defended ;himself, telling ;black Twitter to “relax.”
McKesson later addressed the problem with Morgan’s ;celebration of whiteness as a ;dismissal of ;the inequality that people of color ;experience. ;
Morgan still stands by his actions, and issued ;a direct tweet ;on Friday.
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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Piers Morgan’s Totally Ridiculous Tweet To Black Lives Matter Activist
