Morgan Wallen faces backlash after being caught on tape using a racial slur, prompting hosts to argue his drunken remark was a non-malicious joke rather than hate speech. They highlight perceived double standards in cancel culture, noting Black celebrities face less scrutiny for similar transgressions while Wallen's career was effectively discarded like a "used condom." The discussion questions why white people cannot utilize terms originating within Black culture if peers do so, ultimately defending Wallen's intent as harmless and vowing to continue listening to his music despite the controversy. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Weight of Racist Words00:09:24
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Hey, but anyway, before we even start today's video, we got to give this disclaimer.
Yeah.
Because we are black.
White people are treated a certain way in this country and black people are treated a certain way in this country.
I'm treated, I'm black, and I'm treated like I'm white.
Yeah, but we are, in fact, black.
Both of my parents are black, so I'm going to use the black card in this video.
Yeah.
But anyway, there's country music singer.
He's a superstar.
Morgan Whalen.
I listen to his music all the time.
Yeah, one of his neighbors caught him on tape saying the N-word.
But in the context of how he used it, it was not to racist.
It was not to offend anybody.
He was actually talking to one of his friends that just dropped him off.
It was a buddy.
I mean, the way y'all are saying he used that term, it's like he had somebody on chains or something.
And he was dragging them.
It wasn't in that context.
The context of that, he was joking.
He was drunk.
It was between him and his buddy.
Yeah.
I think he may have been black.
I don't think he's black.
I can't tell it was dark.
Stupid.
No pun intended.
What was dark?
Yeah, he could have been black.
I mean, even Morgan and the tape look black.
It's dark.
That's what I meant.
We don't, well, I just want to say we don't know if he was black or white.
I'm thinking he was white.
I'm thinking he was black.
I don't think he was black.
It was 50-50.
Right?
But anyway, it's dark.
It wasn't using a context to offend anybody.
It wasn't using a context to offend anybody.
He kind of used how black people use it.
Yeah.
You know, black people still use that term like lack of a term of German, like homie.
What's up, my dude?
Yeah, like within the black culture, I mean, I mean, a typical black person don't use that word.
Like the Barack Obamas, the college professors, doctors.
We don't use it.
I mean, sometimes I use it just for comedic effect because it just sounds funny.
Black people calling each other the N-word?
It don't make no sense.
I mean, I'm not a big fan of the word.
I don't use it.
But anyway, but people tend to use it on the black people.
Yeah, like you got your doctors, your lawyers, you got your Barack Obamas, you know, top tier black folk, right?
Then, you know, as you come down the tree, it's a branch hanging off, and that's the subset that likes that word.
Damn, ain't that bad?
It's part of the tree.
You act like it's a.
It's not.
Yeah, it's a part of the tree.
It's like a root.
It's not a branch.
I mean, that subset of culture is kind of, it's not, it's kind of bizarre.
You ought to hear them how they talk to that woman.
Like, hey, bitch.
Hey, ho, you looking fine today.
You got a fat ass on you, girl.
Yeah, they actually pay.
Who your sister?
They actually paying the bitch a compliment.
Yeah, it's not meant to be derogatory at all.
But that's not black culture.
It's a subset.
It's a little subset of the culture, you know.
Yeah, but if y'all don't know who.
I don't talk about women like that.
I mean, I say the words from time to time, but I'm joking.
It's like just for comedic effect because it's kind of weird to walk up to a girl and say, hey, bitch.
Yeah.
Hey, ho.
Where you been?
I've been in the middle of the moment.
You could be in the hood and a black dude go up to a woman he's never met.
Hey, bitch.
You fine as hell, ho.
Giving them digits so I can dig you out tonight.
They will say dig you out.
That's something you just came up with.
Well, they'll probably say so I can skeet on you.
You skeet.
I'm going to skeet a couple times on you.
Anyway, Morgan Whalen.
I'll say, thank God it's not Whalen Jennings.
I'm just.
But anyway.
I'd have hung myself if it was Willie Nelson.
He's a damn icon in the country.
I mean, if black people can use the word, why can't white people?
I mean, white people, they invented the word.
Yeah, could you imagine that creating a word that black people love so much, but you can't say it?
They can use it.
Shouldn't they be grandfathered in?
They created the damn word.
White people, y'all got a real good lawsuit.
Y'all should trademark that and sue all the black people you.
Because that's the only people that like openly use that word nowadays.
I bet you take an old white person that's 92 years old when they see a black person called another blades.
They'd be like, shit don't make no sense.
Yeah.
But if y'all don't know Morgan Whalen, he's got like a, what's that song?
Whiskey glasses.
Oh, man.
I love that song, man.
Whiskey glasses?
Yeah, how it go.
I'm going to sing it for you.
Break it down for him, man.
Pull me.
Pull me another drink.
I want to get sucked off.
See him singing like, pull me.
Pull me another drink.
I don't want to feel a thing no damn more.
And I want to get sucked off tonight.
Yeah, man, you could be country music songs.
I can hear the radios now.
Hawkswins, come into town.
Come to Nashville.
They're going to be singing that number one here.
I'm going to get sucked off.
It's been number one for 58 weeks.
Even the niggas are singing.
Snoop dog walking down the street with a mullet.
Pull me.
Pull me a drink, hoe.
Bitch.
Dog, man.
It's like, pull me.
Pull me another drink.
Yeah.
No, but it's a great song.
Yeah.
He's been number one for the last three weeks, man.
And now everybody's canceling him.
It's record deal.
And everybody's just want to throw him away.
And paint this guy, this man, as a racist, which I look, I saw the video.
In the context of what it was said, he was joking with his friends.
I mean, it sounds pretty bad because he's got a country draw.
And he's got a mullet.
It looks horrible.
It looks horrible from a black man's point of view.
You know what I'm saying?
They say there's a such thing as white privilege and this and that.
I don't get it.
I don't see no white privilege in this because he's totally not being racist in this.
Yeah.
Why can't a white man, a white man can't say it, but a black man can?
Where's the equality in that?
Yeah.
A black man can call somebody the n-word a white person if they use it in the right context.
Like if he said the n-word with the ER on the end, it's totally different.
Totally two different meanings.
Yeah, and Tim Z, the neighbor recorded this.
It's like really spooky and creepy.
They see him going in the house when he drops the N-word.
And when he comes out, he's still filming.
Yeah, it's the next morning.
I'm like, who the hell is this creep living across the street from Morgan Whalen?
Is he taking a break?
I mean, he's like, he's got somebody on shifts recording his house.
But you got to look at it like this, TMZ.
They make money.
They capitalize on people's mistakes and failures.
They're like, TMZ is like hedge funds of news media.
Damn.
They capitalize on people's failures and mistakes.
Yeah.
It takes a special kind of person to do that.
Yeah.
Just to put things into perspective.
Yeah.
It's crazy times we live in, man.
Hey, man.
I mean, if he said he was sorry, I think it's genuine.
Yeah.
Right, but are y'all just gonna throw this man away like a damn used condom?
I mean, there's been black celebrities that have done things.
Y'all bring them back.
They've beaten women.
He's still got a music career.
I'm not going to drop any names, but it's just like it's a double standard.
Y'all know damn good and well that man was not being racist when he said that word.
He was drunk off his ass.
Yeah.
But it was nothing malicious about joking with his friend.
Yeah.
He even said, hey, Gracie, take that.
What'd he say?
That punk ass.
And then it was like it was, it was, they were joking.
Hey, man.
Hey, um, Morgan, I'm still going to listen to your music.
Yeah.
I'm still going to listen to it.
You know why they're coming down on you, man?
Because these niggas be hating out here, man.
They're hating on you, man.
Yeah, they be hating.
I'm still going to listen to your music.
I don't give a damn what you said.
I know I never met you personally, but I know there's nothing malignant about you from the way you use that word.
Malignant.
That's like cancerous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Something it did.
I've been called the N-word by racist white people.
Yeah.
I know when a racist, when somebody meant to put fear in me and make me feel like this big when they say it, there's a total difference to how you said it.
Yeah, I've heard that term from a racist person just growing up in the south of Virginia.
When they say it, like when a racist person says it, it puts chills up your back.
Canceling After an Apology00:01:20
Yeah.
To his music label, to everybody's canceling him, you know, damn good and well you said the n-word behind closed doors.
You said it in public.
We all have said that word.
Y'all going to cancel him after he's apologized?
Knowing damn good and well, y'all have done the exact same thing.
Nobody's immune for what that man did.
Everybody's done that.
Yeah.
Cancel culture.
But it's like it wasn't in the context of being hateful.
Yeah, it wasn't.
It wasn't.
Paul me.
Pull me another drink.
Now I want to get sucked off.
I think I'm going to be the lead singer of the group.