Piers Morgan and Munroe Bergdorf clashed big time on Good Morning Britain today [September 4].
The model, DJ and activist has made headlines recently for a deleted Facebook post claiming "all white people are racist".
On Friday (September 2), she was dropped from a diversity campaign by L'Oréal after the controversial comments, made on her public Facebook page. She had been the first transgender model to appear in a campaign from the beauty giant.
And today, Munroe had a dramatic clash with Piers over her reported comments about "the racial violence of white people" – saying that while she didn't regret her post, her original remarks had been since taken out of context.
"I guess as a straight, white male, I am enemy number one," Piers snapped at the model. "Who are you to make these comments? You are calling all straight, white men like me these awful things and it's very offensive.
"I wanted you to come on this show and look me in the eye. You say we shouldn't be offended by your comments. I want you to explain why we shouldn't be offended by what you said, that all white people are party to racial violence."
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Munroe criticised Piers for making the conversation about him rather than focusing on what she had actually said, noting: "Some of [the] things you say are sexist".
She added: "Instead of taking it personally, why don't you think of being part of the solution? Sexism doesn't come from women, it's caused by men."
She also proposed that everyone works together to fight racism, saying: "Talking about racism isn't causing a divide. Society has placed all white people with a certain privilege.
"That means if you are not dismantling racism or helping ,then you are part of the problem because that makes you complicit. You need to actually actively work with people of colour to put diversity into place.
"When L'Oréal fired me for speaking about the origins of racism, that goes completely against what diversity is. And we need diversity because we have racism.
"Did you know white people have a better chance of getting out of poverty than black people in this country?
"I don't regret my words, because I am an activist. I'm not going to say a bunch of things people will like. Yes, I said all white people are racist, but that's because they all have access to white privileges. I'm not talking about literally every single white person."
When the heated debate concluded, Munroe told Good Morning Britain viewers not to listen to Piers and said that she wouldn't be tuning into the show anymore.
However, he didn't seem to take offence to the comments.
"Well, if you're still prepared to listen to me, a white, straight man, then there's more coming up – Munroe won't be listening to me that's for sure," he told the camera before turning to the model.
"I think under different circumstances, Munroe, we'd get on just fine. I think things have just got off to a bad start."
Good Morning Britain is on ITV, weekdays at 6am.
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