MSNBC Hosts Blame Fraternity's Racism on Rap Music

Photo of Waka Flocka Flame performing at Coachella 2014, by Dave Bullock

In the latest chapter of the ongoing fallout from the University of Oklahoma SAE fraternity members' racist video, the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday suggested hip-hop is partially responsible for the behavior seen in the clip.

Reacting to Waka Flocka Flame's decision to cancel his appearance at OU and his appearance Tuesday night on CNN saying he was "disgusted" by the video, co-host Mika Brzezinski said the rapper's use of the n-word in his music is partly to blame for such acts.

“If you look at every single song—I guess you call these, that he’s written—it’s a bunch of garbage,” he said. “It’s full of n-words, it’s full of f-words. It’s wrong. And he shouldn’t be disgusted with them, he should be disgusted with himself.”

Conservative commentator Bill Kristol added: "Popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot corporations profit off of it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they’ve been hearing."

Host Joe Scarborough went on to claim the consumers who "are buying hip hop or gangster rap, it’s a white audience, and they hear this over and over again. So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked.”

Again, this happened on MSNBC, not Fox News. The full video can be seen at Mediaite.