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Watch Nashville, Tenn., Mayoral Candidate Tell Roomful of Black Voters Racial Profiling Is ‘Absolutely Necessary’
There are some things that make you feel so icky that they’re impossible to explain. I don’t know why my gag reflex is triggered every time I (ack!) think about (ack!) tongue-kissing Kellyanne Conway. Until I learned about trypophobia, an irrational fear of bumps or holes, I had no idea why those pictures of Erik…
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Hold Up … Did Whitey McWhiteMan Just Tell Auntie Maxine to ‘Stop Talking About Discrimination’?
Although I have spent 99.9 percent of my years as a black male, during the course of my lifetime, I can remember a few rare occurrences when I had brief out-of-body experiences. For instance, one day I stepped onto the screened-in porch on the back of my house and came face-to-face with a fully grown…
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It Turns Out, That Cop-Calling Starbucks Manager Might Be the Beckiest Becky Who Ever Beckied
Remember that white girl who called the cops on those two black guys? No, not the one from Yale. Sarah Braasch called the cops on one black guy for trying to study and one black woman for sleeping. That was totally different. No, not the Waffle House lady or the one from the cookout or…
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Manager Loudly Reads Store’s Theft Policy to Black Customers, Calls Security When Asked Why [Updated]
Updated: Friday, May 11, 2018, 12:15 p.m. EDT: The Root received the following statement from Christi Graybill, vice president of e-commerce operations with Fuego: We are deeply sorry for the event that occurred in our Tacoma, WA store on May the 7th. When the two customers confronted our employees and were understandably upset, our manager asked…
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Did Michael Cohen Get $600,000 From AT&T so Trump Would Kill Net Neutrality and OK a Merger?
Whenever anyone asks, “Isn’t it funny how … ,” they are usually accusing someone of something without explicitly saying it. For instance: Isn’t it funny how your boyfriend always needs to go to the other room when he receives late-night texts? Isn’t it funny how we’ve never seen Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the same room…
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Meek Mill Discusses His Opioid Addiction, Says Jay-Z Quietly Paid His Legal Fees
Two weeks after he was released from a Pennsylvania prison, Meek Mill joined Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club for a wide-ranging interview that included discussion of his addiction to opioids, his friendship with Philadelphia 76ers owner Michael Rubin and much more. Mill discussed his addiction to Percocet, which he says he was reintroduced to by…
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I Honestly Thought White People Were Better Than This
I had forgotten about the first time. I usually hear their dogs barking as I pass their house while walking my dog, a 165-pound Great Dane. On most days, at least one of the dogs exits the house through what I assume is a doggie door, walks into the fenced-in backyard and yaps at us…
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Texas State University Students Jailed for Campus Protest
Nearly a month after Texas State University students staged a campus protest and sit-in, police issued warrants for four students who allegedly tried to block police vehicles that were carrying student government senators who had skipped out on their official duties. According to the Austin American-Statesman, TSU’s Police Department issued warrants for 19-year-old Journey Alayna…
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The All-American Question: Can You Truly Love Black People if You Date Outside the Race?
Whether it is about a same-sex, interracial or nonconforming relationship, as a rule, I tend not to involve myself in the question of whom other people choose to love, and it’s not because I have a self-righteous sense of egalitarian, progressive thinking. It’s mostly because I have one universal rule for other people’s masturbation, relationships…
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South Carolina Man Seeks White Supremacist Hit Man to Lynch Black Neighbor, Burn Cross on Lawn: FBI
In a noble attempt to boost the Trump administration’s record-low unemployment numbers, a South Carolina man has been indicted on charges he reached out to undercover FBI agents posing as white supremacists, and offered them $500 to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and burn a cross on his lawn. After checking…
