The conversation around Shiloh Hendrix, the playground Karen who was filmed calling a 5-year-old Black child the N-word is getting louder, as Hendrix is going viral and raising money to protect herself from ongoing threats. But the conversation became too much for activist and author Marc Lamont Hill during a recent appearance on โPiers Morgan Uncensored.โ
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Hill appeared on a panel discussion alongside New York Post columnist Rikki Schlott, podcaster and author Myron Gaines and Lilly Gaddis, a cultural commentator and self-proclaimed racist.
During the segment, Gaddis admitted to frequently using the N-word whenever she feels itโs appropriate, adding that she wants to live in a country where she is not punished for exercising what she believes to be free speech. At that moment, Morgan asked Gaddis to use the word openly on the show โ and thatโs when Hill had heard enough and called out Gaddis and Morgan for attempting to use the racially offensive word for ratings.
โI donโt want you to invite this woman to say a racially-harmful term in front of me, because Iโm the only [N-word] on here, so if she says it, Iโm the victim of it,โ Hill said. โSo please donโt invite her for ratings to call me the N-word because thatโs basically what itโs going to be.โ
Hill then called out the hypocrisy, adding that Morgan would never invite a person to use a term that was offensive to Jewish people.
โYou would not sit here with a Jewish person and say, โPlease use a Jewish slur in front of this Jew.โ Itโs ridiculous. I understand you donโt have any bad intent, Piers. I understand what youโre trying to do. But we already know sheโs a racist and I donโt want to invite a racial harm to me to prove it,โ he added.
Hill continued the conversation on his Instagram account.
โWhile I understand that his intention was to expose her as a racist โand get ratings for shock valueโ I felt compelled to shut it down. We must never allow disrespect from anyone, but especially out open enemies. And we must always affirm our dignity self-worth,โ Hill wrote on a post about the incident.ย
Commenters applauded Hill for standing up to Morgan and the self-proclaimed racist and keeping the conversation from going completely off the rails. One person suggested he find out who else would be a part of the conversation before agreeing to participate.
โWho all gone be thereโ was invented for situations like this. They really tried to play. Wow. Salute Marc ๐ช๐พโ wrote someone in the comments.
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