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Trump Will Sign Executive Order to Make Discrimination Great Again
As early as Thursday, Donald Trump will sign a new executive order that allows entities to discriminate against the millions of Americans whose gender and sexuality fall outside the boundaries of those entities’ religious beliefs, CNN reports. You’ve heard of the so-called religious-liberty laws. In March 2016, Georgia’s governor vetoed House Bill 757 that would…
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Critics Score Dear White People 100 Percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Actual White People? Not So Much
Despite the torrential flood of white tears that has rained down since Netflix announced the recently released original series Dear White People, film and television critics have given the show a 100 percent score on the review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Created by Justin Simien, who wrote and directed the feature film of the same name,…
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Why Wypipo Love the Confederacy, Explained
With the decision of Biloxi, Miss., to no longer fly the state flag, and cities across the country destroying monuments to the Confederacy, the debate about the meaning and historical significance of the Civil War has once again reared its ugly head. Most notable among the discussions is whether white Southerners’ affinity for all things…
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Minn. GOP Attacks Rep. Keith Ellison in Racist Facebook Post
No one believes that everyone in the GOP is racist, but an official Republican social media account featured a racially tinged, Islamophobic photo of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) that demeaned his religion and insinuated that he has sex with animals. Late Monday night, someone in Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District Republican Party took to the group’s…
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Black Tenn. Lawmakers Tricked Into Honoring KKK Leader
Black lawmakers in Tennessee’s House of Representatives were incensed late last week when they learned they had been duped into voting for a resolution honoring the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. According to Nashville Patch and The Tennessean, Rep. Mike Sparks, a Republican in the Tennessee Legislature’s lower chamber, sponsored a bill…
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Trump Supporter Targets Non-Republicans in Machete Attack
In a ranking of the scariest phrases in the English language, coming in somewhere between the terms “states’ rights” and “The 45th president of the United States tweeted … ” are the words “disgruntled white male.” On Friday, a former student at a university in Lexington, Ky., carried a machete and a bag of knives…
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Restaurant Apologizes After Staff Sings ‘F–k the Police’ to Cops
The owners of a North Carolina restaurant quickly apologized after a police union took to social media to complain that employees of the eatery sang “F—k the Police” to dining officers. According to the News & Observer, when a few of Raleigh’s finest decided to have a bite to eat at Smithfield’s Chicken-n-Barbecue in Garner,…
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Judge Allows White Ala. Town to Return to Segregation
A judge told a mostly white suburb near one of the blackest cities in the country that—after reviewing all of the facts—she believed the town’s request to separate itself was motivated by race. She stressed that the move could encourage feelings of racial inferiority among the district’s black students. The judge chastised the white citizens…
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This Is What Happens When People of Color Appropriate Other Cultures
Everyone knows we do not hesitate to call out cultural appropriation at The Root. So what happens when someone reports a person of color to the fashion police for engaging in that misdemeanor? Will that person use their nonwhite privilege to excuse their behavior? Will they push back against the accusations? Will they shuffle the…
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People Are Outraged That Obama Got $400,000 as a Speaking Fee
When Barack Obama boxed up the Lawry’s Seasoned Salt and packed the Texas Pete (because—as we all know—only poseurs use Frank’s Red Hot), black America figured it was finally over. We believed the only upside to the title of “former president” was that he wouldn’t have to endure the inane outrage that some people (pronounced…
