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Video of Hero Cop Body-Slamming Unarmed, Handcuffed Teenage Girl Somehow Angers People
Citizens and community leaders are applauding the selfless actions of a California police officer following the cop’s heroic takedown of an unarmed, already restrained teenage girl after the girl threatened the safety and well-being of an entire school body by standing still and talking. According to a Los Angeles Times report, an instructor at Helix…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: A Basket of Horribles
I am currently suffering from the flu and feel like I’m going to die. But because of my dedication to the readers of The Root, I crawled out of bed to respond to a few emails, tweets, comments and direct messages we receive during the week. (And because, when I told my editor, Yesha Callahan,…
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What the Hell Is ‘Unapologetically White’?
I’ve seen people on social media say they were “unapologetically Keisha,” or “unapologetically black,” but I’ve never been down with the “unapologetic” movement. Not because I think it’s a groupthink catchphrase, but because I have no idea what it means. I’ve never had anyone come up to me and ask me to apologize for my…
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Reality TV ‘Star’ You Never Heard of Sues Delta Sigma Theta for Taking Her Letters Over Ratchet Reality Show
A woman cast on a canceled VH1 reality series is suing her sorority because she claims they kicked her to the curb for the tiny, petty little reason that she was capitalizing off the sorority’s name while simultaneously acting like an inebriated feral Chihuahua on national television. The headline of this story initially read, “Former…
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White Supremacists Killed More People in US in 2017 Than Muslims, Antifa and Kneeling NFL Players Combined
Ladies and gentlemen, after tabulating the votes for all of the scary, terrorist bogeymen who killed American citizens in 2017, the award for the Domestic Extremists of the Year goes to: (Drumroll, please … ) Racist white people! 2017 was a banner year for white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism reports that right-wing…
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Aziz Ansari and Shitholes: Men Understand Consent Like White America Understands Racism
America is still in the throes of two ear-deafening shouting matches over private episodes that somehow became public knowledge. Although they were vastly different occurrences, they parallel each other in that the responses to both incidents were both loud and angry. I’m sure you’re exhausted from hearing about the first: when our Dorito-dust-covered doofus president…
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Couple Kept Their 13 Children in Chains, Which Raises Question: What Kind of White-People Mess Is ‘QuiverFull’?
A creepy-looking California couple were arrested after authorities said they found 13 of their offspring, including seven adults, malnourished and chained to beds in their suburban home Sunday. Critics have wondered why it took so long for authorities to discover the alleged crimes of 57-year-old David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin, 49. Aside from…
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‘Dumb Black Asses’ and ‘You Stupid Monkeys’ Signs Posted at University of South Carolina for MLK Day
Black students at the University of South Carolina received a warm welcome on the first day of classes when students discovered racist signs posted on a campus bulletin board. According to the Post and Courier, senior journalism student Leland Williams Jr. said that a group of minority students found out about the signs around 9…
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Damn, Kevin Spacey. Are You an N-Word-Dropping Racist, Too?
The award-winning actor and alleged child molester Kevin Spacey has now been accused of racism by the owner of an all-black security company who provided security on the set of the series House of Cards. (To be clear, when we call Spacey “award-winning,” we are referring to his 2000 best actor Oscar for American Beauty.…
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Forbes’ 10 Cities Where African Americans Are Doing the Best Economically Are All in the South
When Forbes began its annual ranking of the places where black people are doing the best economically, many people probably assumed that the list would be filled with places in the North and the West, culminating in the city where residents are required to own at least one pair of Timberlands and everyone’s last name…
