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How to Watch Your Family Drown Slowly
Editor’s note: Until recently, mental health and illness were taboo subjects in the black community. But thanks to the efforts of those brave enough to speak on it, that’s changing. In that vein, The Root team is taking this week during Mental Health Awareness Month to write about how mental health has touched our lives.…
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‘White Caller Crime’: The Worst Wypipo Police Calls of All Time
According to the global white agenda, every year, white people pick one slogan on which they will focus their undivided attention. While they are certainly capable of multitasking their oppression, they like to devote their energy to specific marketing campaigns. In 2016 the “alt-right’s” “Make America great again” motto overtook 2015’s “All Lives Matter” as…
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A Sincere Apology to the Strong Black Men Being Attacked by #TheRootArticles
As someone whose job is writing about race, I often receive a broad spectrum of criticism from people aggrieved by my inherent bigotry. My inbox is constantly wet from the salty white tears of Mayo Americans upset about The Root’s anti-white agenda. Apparently, when I and other writers at The Root point out white supremacy,…
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Ex-Cop Convicted of Killing Unarmed Black Man Caught Drinking at Bar in Apparent Violation of Parole
A wealthy Oklahoma ex-deputy released after serving less than half his sentence for shooting and killing an already subdued, unarmed black man was recently spotted having a few cocktails at a local bar, which would be perfectly fine if the terms of his parole didn’t specifically forbid him from doing so. For legal purposes, we…
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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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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Declaration of Blackness
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bonds which have connected them with wypipo, and to assume among them their equality on this earth to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the stupid opinions of Caucasians requires…
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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…
