On Wednesday, "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski set off a day full of fireworks with their discussion of the video that came out recently featuring white students from Oklahoma University singing a racist chant, which resulted in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity being banned from the school. In the segment clipped above, Joe and Mika discuss the rapper Waka Flocka Flame, who canceled an appearance on campus, citing the chant.

The segment stirred up quite a bit of rage online. Amanda Marcotte wrote about it, saying that Morning Joe "zeroed in on this not because of the actual meaning of the chant," but was instead "a gross attempt to make this an issue of Kids These Days and their potty mouths, as if racial discrimination is only a big deal if one fails to be genteel about it."

At The Daily Banter, Tommy Christopher writes that:

Fighting their way through the perpetual white confusion over who gets to say the n-word, Mika Brzezinski kicked things off by denigrating Wacka Flocka’s work by calling them “songs, I guess you would call them,” and the entire panel engaged in an extended riff on the extremely disrespectful and condescending pastime of mocking the name Waka Flocka performs under.

He adds that Morning Joe "took it even further" when they "actually suggested a direct causal relationship between the racist chant and the rap music," at which point he embeds the above clip.

At The Right Scoop they show the Twitter reaction, which was swift and is ongoing, attacking the show and Mika in particular. Here is just one example:

Do your arms hurt from all that reaching you were doing on #morningjoe you racist bitch? @morningmika

— BLACK LIVES MATTER️ (@JulieOfcharsky) March 11, 2015

The above clip was not, however, the only segment in which the hosts discuss the topic. In the following clip, you can see the panel cover it along with Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League.

Joe and Mika repeatedly state that one example does not excuse the other, and it is clear that Morial agrees that it is "hurtful" when the "n-word" is used by either the white people in the OU video or by hip hop artists.

Phillip Bump at the Washington Post discusses the entirety of comments from the show, and makes this particularly material observation:

Second, yes, black musicians use the n-word in their work. As Willie Geist of "Morning Joe" pointed out during this morning's debate, context matters. "There is a distinction between white kids on a bus singing about hanging someone and Waka Flocka singing a song," he said.

Bump, too, concludes that Mika and Joe have reached too far in laying blame on hip hop lyrics for the incident at Oklahoma University.

It is absurd to think that what the students on the bus were despicably chanting was in any way related to or influenced by hip hop lyrics. Context matters. However, despite Mika's afternoon apology tour on MSNBC, and for better or for worse, the topic of hip hop lyrics is now part of this story. It is a discussion that is long overdue. Perhaps as punishment is meted out and fingers are pointed and racial tension is provoked in the media again, there will be at least some people who will look at their own words, even their own lyrics, and think twice.

Because we see how ugly these students look and sound on their video, and that can be a mirror to how others look and sound in their own videos.