“Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski was back on MSNBC this afternoon, appearing on “The Cycle” to clarify comments she made Wednesday morning in a discussion of the Oklahoma fraternity members expelled after they were discovered on video singing racist chants. Some viewers criticized Brzezinski, believing she had suggested rap music may have been somehow to blame for what was captured on video.
Asked about that criticism, Brzezinski insisted that is not what she said–or what she meant. “In no way is anyone else to blame for what they did on that bus. (The students) are responsible and they made that choice.”
Brzezinski did say she’d like to talk about rap music–but not as an explanation for what happened in Oklahoma. “There may be a good conversation to have out there about rap music, hip hop and the n-word…but there’s no moral equivalency between any lyrics and what happened on that bus. And we said that this morning on our show.”