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Is Donald Trump a White Supremacist? A Racial-Draft Analysis
White America is still clutching its pearls in response to ESPN host Jemele Hill’s Twitter rant calling Donald Trump a white supremacist. The fallout from the incident has sparked a lively debate in journalistic circles: Is it appropriate for a company’s employee to spout his or her political beliefs on a personal social media account?…
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Anti-Fascists Hunt Down, Knock Out Neo-Nazi for Harassing Black Man
Updated Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, 8:34 p.m. EDT: The man who witnessed a neo-Nazi get knocked the fuck out says that before the white supremacist lay down for an impromptu, involuntary nap on the sidewalk, he was yelling racist propaganda at passers-by and even threw a banana at a man. Sean Patrick Duff, who took…
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Does Kevin Durant Have a Secret Clapback Instagram Account?
We all have that one friend who just can’t let shit go. You know the one I’m talking about. The homeboy who thinks someone stepping on his shoe is a plot by his rivals to ruin his new Jordans. The homegirl who thinks the waiter has a vendetta against her because one of her mozzarella…
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1 Year After #BankBlack, America’s Biggest Black-Owned Bank Still Doing the Work
Hip-hop has become a cultural powerhouse that fuels everything from fashion to corporate profits. They rap in beer commercials. Politicians come to Jay-Z for endorsements. With all its faults, more than any form of art that ever existed, hip-hop has always openly acknowledged the most powerful force in America: Money. Every conversation about equality, civil…
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Uber Driver Kicks Not-Racist White People Out of Car for Being Racist
Now that “I’m not racist” has become the new “God knows my heart,” perhaps we should stop referring to people as racists, and instead say they were acting like racists. For instance, Donald Trump acted like a racist when he big-upped the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis during a presidential press conference. Or, better yet,…
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An Astonishing Percentage of Americans Believe White People Are ‘Under Attack.’ Here’s Why They’re Wrong
This week, the polling company Ipsos released a poll in conjunction with Reuters and the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Most of the numbers coincided with what one would assume the average American thinks about subjects like Confederate statues, neo-Nazis and white nationalism, but there were two results that stunningly revealed the attitudes of…
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Shit Finally Hits the Fan in St. Louis … Like We Said It Would
What did you think would happen? Once, when I was visiting an elementary school classroom, a second-grader wanted to tell me about his trip to SeaWorld. He told me and the rest of the class about the dolphins, octopi, and all the rare and crazy fish he saw. Then he went into an elaborate story…
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Can Black People Be Racist? A Clapback Mailbag Special Edition
Welcome back to our weekly interactive look into The Root’s mailbag. Instead of our usual Friday hodgepodge of reader mail, today we would like to focus on a specific topic. More than any other complaint, comment or question, there is one in particular about which our readers contact us: Why are we so racist? Instead…
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Shirtless Looters Outchea Stealing Telephone Poles
Please disregard that insensitive, clickbait headline. I misspelled the sentence: “Jacksonville Citizens Apprehended for Illegally Acquiring Communications Equipment.” Simple mistake. Anyway, according to Jacksonville.com, Blake Lee Waller, 42, and Victor Walter Apeler, 46, were arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday morning when cops stopped two men with a telephone pole perched atop their vehicle as if…
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Darryl Strawberry Criticizes Jemele Hill and Praises Donald Trump as a ‘Great Man’
I’m not a betting man, but if there were an enterprising oddsmaker or bookie taking bets on who’d be the first black athlete to castigate Jemele Hill, I probably would have put a couple of dollars down on Charles Barkley or Ray Lewis. I might have parlayed it with Jason Whitlock, who played college football…
