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Asian Network,2 mins

Is it ever acceptable for a non-Asian to say the P word?

Nihal

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Singer Azealia Banks was involved in a massive Twitter rant against Zayn Malik. Some of the stuff that's been said online is too extreme for us to repeat here, but she did call Zayn the P-word as well as refer to Donald Trump's controversial policy of banning Muslims from the US. Is it normal for black and white people, or even Asian people to be using the P or N word in common language? Or is it just racist? What about Asians who use 'gora'? Does this Twitter rant show that no matter how much people are taught about racism, some people will always have racist attitudes? We've seen Asian and Middle Eastern people abused on London transport by black people - Is this and Azealia Bank's Twitter rant against Zayn Malik just a sign of what gets said by ordinary people? Three callers share their views with Nihal. (Photo by Cassandra Hannagan/Getty Images)

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