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The 10 Worst Co-Workers Ever
It is Labor Day. Before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Labor Day was the only black holiday. I’m pretty sure it originated as the day when slaves commemorated the end of cookout season. I think that’s right. Or maybe it symbolized the beginning of HBCU homecoming season. Perhaps it was meant to be a day…
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Omarosa Might Be Pushed Out for ‘Triggering’ Trump
The Trump administration might have a new secretary of stepping and fetching soon, since reports are beginning to surface that Omarosa Manigault is being pushed out of Trump’s inner circle by chief of staff John Kelly. According to a report by the Daily Beast, Manigault is the first casualty of the former general’s efforts to…
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One of the Worst Things White People Ever Did to Black People Happened This Week
I think we can all agree that the global, multinational enterprise called the trans-Atlantic slave trade, built on a business plan of kidnapping, torture and rape, is the worst thing white people ever did to black people. They wrote it into the Constitution. They codified it. They screamed for liberty and justice while blithely doing…
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5 Rules for Black Cookouts … and Life
As one of the world’s leading cookoutologists (I would say I’m the leading authority, but my aunt Phyllis hasn’t officially retired), I feel it is my duty to keep you updated on the latest in cookout culture. (Always remember: White people barbecue, black people “cook out.”) Although many people think of cookouts as events or…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Beckys and Bad Suits
Once again, it’s Friday, which means it is time to sort through The Root’s mailbag and soak in our readers’ reactions to the content posted this week. It has been an interesting seven days here, and this week’s correspondence reveals an interesting mix of white tears, white fragility and butt-hurt Beckys. And yet we remain…
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Shit Might Hit the Fan in St. Louis Tomorrow
Chemists define an explosion as “a sudden, violent change of potential energy to work, which transfers to its surroundings in the form of a rapidly moving rise in pressure called a blast wave or shock wave. The shock wave can cause substantial damage.” I was there when Ferguson, Mo., exploded. When Officer Darren Wilson pumped…
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How 3 Black Visionaries Are Bringing the Hood Into the Marijuana Industry
What if all the drug money made in black neighborhoods stayed in black neighborhoods? Even better, what if the people selling the weed in communities of color didn’t have to hide the money? What if they didn’t have to worry about being arrested three times more often than whites? What if the tax revenue for…
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The 5 Types of ‘Becky’
Becky: (noun); a white woman who uses her privilege as a weapon, a ladder or an excuse. Ex: “A random Becky hit me up on Twitter to explain why not all white women are racist.” What started as a controversial term for fellatio has blossomed into an all-encompassing term for a specific class of white…
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White Guy Lies About Black Anti-Fascist Stabbing Him Because of His Nazi Haircut
Do you remember a story from a couple of weeks ago about a man who was stabbed by an unknown black guy? Remember how it was all over Fox News, Inside Edition and the Alex Jones show as proof that savage, black “anti-fascists” were violently attacking innocent white people all willy-nilly across America? Well, it…
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Donald Trump’s Election-Stealing, Secret Voter-Purge Plan
As Donald Trump’s approval ratings hit historic lows, everyone is asking how he intends to win a re-election campaign. And before the 2020 presidential election, many political observers are wondering how the Republican Party can keep its majority in the House and Senate in the 2018 midterm elections. Will the GOP legislators distance themselves from…
