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Was Nicki Minaj’s SNL Performance Cultural Appropriation?
When Nicki Minaj took the stage to perform her hit song “Chun-Li” on the most recent episode of Saturday Night Live, “callout Twitter” rumbled with accusations of cultural appropriation and the fetishization of Asian culture. While some, including a few Asian Americans, accused the rapstress of using stereotypical Asian imagery as a costume, others defended…
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Behold BeelzeBecky: White Woman Seen on Video Trying to Get Man Driving Through Her Neighborhood Killed
If you have ever wondered what would happen if Tomi Lahren had a baby with Thanos, a Nevada man may have found the answer. Facebook user James Ochoa, a Mexican American, claims to have encountered the queen of all Beckys while working at a Las Vegas home. Ochoa wrote that he had to use the…
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White Supremacist Hillbillies Attack Black Family With Baseball Bats and Frying Pan: Report
New York state troopers arrested two people after a woman and her son reported that a group yelled racial slurs and forced their car off the road before damaging the woman’s car with baseball bats and cookware. Natia Shim said that she was taking her son, a soon-to-be graduate, to fill out job-application forms when…
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New Evidence Shows the Vegas Shooter Was Probably a Far-Right Extremist, but No One Will Say It
Despite the seemingly overwhelming evidence that the 2017 mass murder on the Las Vegas Strip may have been motivated by extreme-right-wing ideology, law enforcement officials still say they have no idea what caused Stephen Paddock to commit one of the deadliest mass shootings of all time. After losing a court battle to keep them private,…
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Black Porn Star Claims He Was Tricked Into Letting His White Co-Star Call Him the N-Word
A black actor has sued an adult-film director for allowing a white actress to use the n-word during a film shoot. A lot of our readers might not be aware of this, but I just learned that there are movies that show people in varying stages of undress having intimate relations with each other. Because…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Lotion Is the Cure for Racism
As I was digging through this week’s selection of emails, tweets, direct messages and comments trying to figure out why everyone is so angry, Deputy Managing Editor Yesha Callahan contacted me to harass me about an intro. I don’t know how we got there, but our conversation somehow landed on Star Wars, specifically how Donald…
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Lying White Woman Who Falsely Accused 2 Black Men of Rape Now Accuses Police of Lying on Her
A woman who confessed that she was trying to get sympathy from a guy she was interested in when she told investigators that two football players dragged her into a bathroom and raped her has changed her story again. She now claims that she never said she was sexually assaulted at all. Before we delve…
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Can Someone Donate a Shit for Me to Give About the Royal Wedding?
I remember exactly where I was when the news broke that Meghan Markle would become a member of the British royal family. It was like a dream. My head and heart were immediately consumed with so many competing thoughts and feelings, such as: Who the hell is Meghan Markle? Stop playing. There’s a black woman…
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Read This Before Calling the Police: For Wypipo Who Have Considered Cops When Privilege Wasn’t Enough
As one of the world’s foremost wypipologists, I have been tasked with addressing the newfound epidemic of Caucasian cop-summoners that just began trending around … oh, I’m going to say it started in 1619, give or take a few days. That’s correct. None of this shit is new. White people have always loved calling the…
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Jury Finds Man Dubbed the ‘George Zimmerman of Alabama’ Guilty in Killing of Unarmed Black Teen
After less than two hours of deliberation, an Alabama jury issued a guilty verdict for the man who shot an unarmed child in the head after the teenager allegedly stole the man’s lunchbox. According to AL.com, 52-year-old Johnathan Scott, who was often referred to as the “George Zimmerman of Alabama,” wept after he was convicted…
