This week, you may have seen the video of students from the University of Oklahoma on a bus excitedly singing racist, pro-lynching songs. Once the video had gone around, the authorities at the university expelled two students, both members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Oklahoma is a state embedded in the timeline of America's history – in 1921, Tulsa, the second largest city in the state, was the scene of one of the largest race riots that the country has ever seen. It happened nearly a century ago, but the video that surfaced this week demonstrated that perhaps attitudes haven't evolved as far as they should have done.

In response to the students' behaviour, Waka Flocka Flame, who had been set to perform at the University of Oklahoma in the coming weeks, cancelled his performance with an announcement on his Instagram, writing in the caption: "We can't change history but we damn sure can create our own future #DeathToRacism".

Fair enough really. However, not everyone saw it that way. In light of Waka Flocka Flame's cancellation, anchors on the MSNBC show Morning Joe speculated that, actually, these guys probably learned how to sing about lynching on a bus in boisterous fashion from all that naughty rap they've been listening to.

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

Bill Kristol added his thoughts: “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." You heard it here first on Morning Joe – Waka Flocka Flame is to blame for frat boys chanting racist songs, there is literally no other way they could have heard the word "n*****", is there?

Another anchor took Waka to task, accusing him of "acting shocked". This is, of course, ridiculous. Watch a clip below.

The Atlanta rapper then went on Now with Alex Wagner to challenge the idea that he and his music is responsible for the racist video. This isn’t about rap. This is about what happened on that bus," he said. “This isn’t about my rap music. I feel like they’re running away from what we’re talking about.”

The students have since apologised for their racist chantings and Mika Brzezinksi attempted to clarify her strange comments on Morning Joe by affirming that "the students in the video are responsible for their behaviour."

Quite.

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