The Wire Creator David Simon Uses N-Word on Twitter and Whitesplains Why

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In today's "When Your White Ally Goes Wrong" news, David Simon, creator of The Wire, had some explaining to do on social media when he used the n-word in a tweet.

Simon took issue with the fact that Donald Trump was having a "a town hall meeting on African-American concerns" hosted by Fox News' Sean Hannity. Yeah, because Hannity hosting an event with Trump about black-people issues makes a lot of sense. And this is what Simon attempted to point out, sarcastically. But he took a wrong turn:

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/778039688879808512

Of course, people took issue with his tweet and tried to get him to delete it:

https://twitter.com/Sedna_51/status/778042182737465345
https://twitter.com/karengeier/status/778046530456526849

. @AoDespair for the people who missed the previous billion memos like David Simon here, if you're not Black, don't use the N word pic.twitter.com/xyzUG26UmZ

— Lauren Chanel Allen (@MichelleHux) September 20, 2016

Simon gave himself a pass to use the word and said it was to make a point:

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/778048667026616320
https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/778051704612909056

Simon's excuse really doesn't work. Since he's someone who considers himself a gifted writer, metaphors should come easy without the use of the n-word.

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