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I'm Not Saying Donald Trump Is Planning a Coup, but He's Doing Exactly What Someone Would Do if They Were Planning a Coup
I’m not the kind of person who shares conspiracy theories. But last night, as I was searching Fo’Chan (It’s like Black Twitter, but for 4Chan) for a leatherbound copy of The Willie Lynch Letter, I happened to run across a few articles on Donald Trump that made my whitey senses tingle (It’s like “Spidey senses,”…
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MSNBC Taps Tiffany Cross, Jonathan Capehart as Weekend Anchors
There exists a misplaced assumption that the recent focus on inclusion is a quasi-benevolent gift to Black people. But profit-driven companies are not supposed to care about diversity for diversity’s sake. Even the most progressive individuals believe that “diversity hires” help Black employees, when, in reality, it is white people who get most of the…
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Trump Officially Accuses Wisconsin's Black Voters of Cheating
First, you have to understand how the law works: Remember when those white boys chased down Ahmaud Arbery and shot him for not burglarizing a home? Technically, they were “concerned citizens” chasing a “suspected burglar” to make a citizen’s arrest. According to police, Breonna Taylor was a “suspected drug trafficker.” George Floyd was “resisting.” Sen.…
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Kelly Loeffler and the GOP Should Denounce Georgia's Radical, Anti-Christian Socialist Senate Candidate
Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s (R-Ga.) incessant attacks on her Senate opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock, can all be condensed to Republican red-meat talking points: Radical ideology is dangerous. People who twist the word of God to further an extremist agenda should be condemned. Government handouts are terrible because America is not a socialist country; it is a…
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Accused Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Free After Posting $2 Million Bail
The teenager charged with killing two unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters during a demonstration over the killing of unarmed Black men is free from a Wisconsin jail after posting bond on Friday. A Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson announced that 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorney paid a $2 million cash bond set by a Wisconsin judge…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Credit Card
I kinda like hate mail. More than a year ago, I promised to include more complimentary correspondences in the Clapback Mailbag. I swear I tried. It’s not that people don’t share their appreciation for The Root with us. The problem is—and I am still trying to figure out why—I don’t take compliments well. I recognize…
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Everything You Need to Know About the Gucci vs. Jeezy Versuz Battle
Tonight is the first Verzuz battle. Everything before this evening’s edition of the outrageously successful Verzuz series was extremely entertaining, but they weren’t necessarily battles (unless you count Teddy Riley’s knockdown dragout with his sound system). Snoop’s dogs didn’t even get at DMX. Monica barely side-eyed Brandy and I’m willing to bet that either Gladys…
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Joy and Pain: MSNBC Host Assaults Trump’s Highest-Ranking Black Friend on Live TV
For all the people who criticize The Root for our lack of coverage of Black-on-Black crime, we present MSNBC host Joy Reid’s heinous attack on one of America’s foremost MAGA negroes, Ja’Ron Smith. As the only prime-time cable news show hosted by a Black person, The ReidOut is essentially cable news’ Black neighborhood. Everyone knows…
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Raphael Warnock, Truth and the 'Radical' Enemies of White Supremacy
On Sept. 15, 1965, Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, a top deputy in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sat down to detail his strange day. DeLoach had just attended a planned meeting in the office of Sen. Strom Thurmond, a staunch segregationist who left the Dixiecrat Party to become a Republican exactly a year prior to…
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Every Argument Against Student Debt Forgiveness, Explained (and Dismissed)
What happens to a student loan deferred?Does it dry uplike Donald Trump’s skin?Or draw interest—Do payments ever end? Does it grow into a mountain of debt?Until an unknown numbercalls you up to collect? Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Until someone forgives it… And white people explode. For most Americans not named Ivanka and those…
