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Atlanta Mayoral Race Might Be the One Bright Spot for Republicans After Tuesday Night
The Atlanta mayoral race was contentious and expensive and pitted just about every element of the city’s political class against one another. You had candidates with celebrity endorsements, candidates busted for getting Falcons tickets, two gay candidates and one who looked like an extra from Magic Mike. The runoff in December will be between the…
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Thor: Ragnarok: This Time the Magical Negroes Have Swords
At this point in America, there are two types of people: those who enjoy the nearly decadelong series of Marvel Avengers movies … and deplorables. That’s about it. If you don’t like these movies by now, you’re probably a deplorable who hates everything coming out of Hollywood or you just hate superhero movies because you…
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Va. Governor’s Race: Conservatives Shed White Tears After Political Ad Calls Out Ed Gillespie’s Racist Ads
Racist campaign commercials are so pervasive that they hardly get heavy news coverage anymore. Everyone harks back to the classic Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign, as if that were the last time a conservative politician’s racial demagoguery blatantly hit the airwaves for 30 seconds. You don’t have to go back 30 years…
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Paul Manafort Charged With Conspiracy Against the US: 3 Things You Need to Know
If American justice were a movie, the arrest Monday of former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates would be that big courtroom scene right before the credits. The camera would pan back to some well-dressed international villain, pulled from the Smug British Actor of the Month Club, in an empty…
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Hey, I Can Play This Game Too, Guys
I have a confession to make. I’m black. I’m a black guy with black parents and black relatives and even some black friends. I also work at Morgan State, a historically black university. And since we’re keeping it 100, I’m the political editor at The Root, which you are reading right now, and which was…
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The Black Renaissance Is Real: HBCUs See Record Growth in 2017
Last week I went to Howard University’s homecoming, and like Deon Cole, Chance the Rapper and Malia Obama at the 2012 inauguration, I was reminded that once you see the bands stomping, the music playing and the quad popping, you know that nobody throws a party like an HBCU. In between panels on the future…
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Va. Democratic Party Leaves Black Candidate for Lieutenant Governor Off Flyer (Then Blames Him for It)
In political campaigns, white candidates can always find a black guy. It’s literally Campaign 101: Most successful white American candidates know that in order to show that you are an open-minded progressive candidate—or to signal that you’re a horrible racist but some black people still like you—you have to find a black guy. After centuries…
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Black Lives Matter Lone Survivor Leon Ford Jr. Loses Police Brutality Case, Still Pursues Justice
Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, Walter Scott: These (and dozens more) are the names we know—the boys, girls, men and women brutally shot and killed by police. Police officers often never faced justice from the courts or the cities that employ them. The deaths of these unarmed black men and…
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White Female Candidate Gets Triggered, Claims Black Opponent Isn’t ‘Intelligent’
It really doesn’t take much to trigger a Donald Trump supporter. Mention Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Russia or George Soros and they’re off, screaming about “pizzagate” and wiretapped microwaves. Sometimes it doesn’t even take that much; sometimes all you have to do is be black on a sunny day to trigger a deplorable’s “T-Gene” (similar…
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Black Stacey vs. White Stacey: A Lesson in Race Politics From Ga.
“I don’t wanna vote for her just because she’s black, you know?” I hate it when I hear things like that. It drives me nuts to hear the contortions that black folks will go through to explain, rationalize and then justify creating their own political impotence. Yet there I was sitting at a small neighborhood…
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