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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Wypipolympics
We interrupt the regularly scheduled Clapback Mailbag to bring you this special program: Welcome to the inaugural Wypipolympics! To give back to the white community, the National Institute for the Greater Good of African Americans Proudly Launching A Stand for Equality (NIGGAAPLEASE) sponsored this weeklong competition to celebrate the staffers at The Root who earn…
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A History of Black Excellence: The Black Women Who Won Reparations
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on House Resolution 40. The legislative proposal establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans, which examines “slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.” While reparations recently…
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Whiteness Anonymous: A 12-Step Program for QAnoners and 'Not All White' People Suffering From Trump Withdrawal Syndrome
It’s been 29 days since Joseph Robinette Biden became the 46th president of the United States, sending QAnon Adventists into severe withdrawals from America being made great again. While some outlets have shamed the idiots patriots who were victimized by the cult of Q, The Root would never. According to an NPR/Ipsos poll, 17 percent…
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28 Days of Black Joy: Candy Ladies
What happens to an auntie deferred? Does she dry upLike a pound cake in the sun?Or open an establishmentthat sells bootleg honeybuns?Does she attend every usher board meeting?or cover her furnitureWith plastic sheeting? Does she sit on the porchand learn how to knit.And where’d she get those bomb-ass peppermints? As a founding member of Auntiefa,…
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A History of Black Excellence: The Mad King and Black Queen Who Built Black Wall Street (No, Not That One)
When an angry white mob bombed, lynched, shot and slaughtered the Black residents in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Okla., on May 31, 1921, they did not destroy Black Wall Street. They destroyed one of the Black Wall Streets. In fact, before the tragic events in Greenwood, if the producers of Family Feud had asked…
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Invasion of the Antibody Snatchers: How White People Colonized the COVID Vaccine
I started calling myself a “wypipologist” as a joke…kinda. While the burgeoning field of white studies might seem like a joke, I stand by my belief that one cannot understand America’s unique form of racial antagonism by studying Black people. It is white people who created it. White people perpetuate it. And, only in analyzing…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Unseasoned Salt
I don’t care. Although I am curious by nature, I generally don’t care what people do or say. I relate to the rest of the world as if they were planning a gender reveal party, an orgy or a prayer meeting at an Episcopalian church—I’m not interested but do you. However, I find myself immensely…
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A History of Black Excellence: The Man Who Invented Laughter
We are the culture. We created jazz, blues, soul, R&B, hip-hop, swing dancing, the Lindy hop, the Charleston, the jitterbug, tap dancing, the moonwalk, the slide (both the cha-cha and the electric one) juking, the James Brown, the robot, breakdancing, pop-locking, graffiti, freestyling, dunking, running fast, jumping high, Cabbage-Patching during touchdowns, frying chicken and candying…
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Georgia Does What Georgia Does, Introduces Legislation to Suppress the Black Vote
White supremacists in Georgia introduced legislation aimed at disenfranchising Black voters by restricting access to the polls. The eight proposed laws would— Wait. Did you click on this link expecting a whitewashed article euphemizing racial politics? If that’s what you were expecting, perhaps you should read the CNN story that says: “GOP state senators in…
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America Predicts Six More Weeks of Whiteness (at Least)
Early Tuesday morning, a corpulent, fur-covered woodchuck waddled out of its rathole burrowed beneath the surface of facts, logic and common sense. As the blinding light of truth radiated on its dust-colored rodent skin, darkening the earth beneath the feckless furball, the assembled audience could see that this long, cold winter of America’s discontent would…
