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Broke Becky, Pap Smears and Why I’m Afraid of White Women
No one ever taught me about Emmett Till. When I was 11 years old, I was sitting in a room filled with black men at my uncle’s New Jersey apartment. As they joked around with one another in the bawdy way men are apt to do when they’re by themselves, a traditionally attractive white woman…
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Sunday’s Game of Thrones Was a Message to Black America
For three weeks, we have preached about how Game of Thrones teaches us everything we need to know about white America. So, this week, you might expect us to joke about how Sansa should’ve cooked for Bran when he came home from that long road trip, or how Euron Greyjoy is turning into Anthony Scaramucci.…
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Tiffany Haddish Explains Her Cosby Comments, but How Far Is Too Far?
Black America’s homegirl Tiffany Haddish—the thief who stole an entire movie from Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah and that other woman who’s in every black movie but you wouldn’t recognize her name if I typed it anyway—stirred up emotions and outrage earlier this week when she said that she’d like to work with Bill Cosby.…
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A Black Man Trademarked the N-Word (the One With the ‘A’)
In what might be the first case of appropriation of white culture, a black man is trying to profit off something started by white people. As soon as the Supreme Court ruled that racial slurs and derogatory symbols could be trademarked, a Mississippi man rushed to file an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark…
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The 2017 World Wypipo Tournament: The Final 4
After two weeks of one of the most epic displays of caucasity since Starbucks put “Happy holidays” on paper cups, the World Wypipo Tournament is down to four challengers. Which one will be crowned the true champion of wypipo? Although pundits, bookmakers and sportscasters worldwide have speculated on who is the most reprehensible of our…
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Because of Obamacare, I Write for The Root
As Senate Republicans huddle in a Capitol-building closet and deliberate on how to strip people of their health care coverage through a dangerous mix of alchemy, conservative math, obfuscation and outright lies, let us remember the important part of the story of the GOP’s efforts to snatch Obamacare from millions of people: John McCain—America’s hero—once…
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Diddy Showed Black Women Some Twitter Love and White Women Started Whitewomaning
Occasionally, we here at The Root take time out from debating the substantive issues of the day, like whether Power is better than Game of Thrones (which is like asking if Tyler Perry’s stage play Madea Goes to the Cookout is better than Romeo and Juliet), to post something educational. Today we present a short…
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Marion, Ark., Police Kill 16-Year-Old Aries Clark
The Arkansas State Police released the name of a teenager shot by police in front of a Marion, Ark., homeless shelter Tuesday. He was identified as 16-year-old Aries Clark, who died in a hospital shortly after being shot by Marion police officers. According to KATV, Fox News and Fox 13 Memphis, the incident happfacebook ened…
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Apparently, HBO Programming Chief Casey Bloys Is an American Hero for Making That Racist Show
I haven’t studied my black-history textbook lately, but I think the lineage of civil rights heroes goes from Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King Jr. to Malcolm X to HBO Programming President Casey Bloys. Speaking to the Television Critics Association on Wednesday, Bloys said that the criticism surrounding HBO’s upcoming show Confederate—which imagines an alternate…
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Apparently There’s a White Supremacist Gym in Nashville, Tenn., and I Want to Go
Let’s open this post with a prayer: Dear white, blue-eyed, 7-pound, 4-ounce, swaddling, onesie-wearing baby Jesus. I know I haven’t talked to you in a while, but I come to you as humbly as I know how, with one simple request: I have been reading about the protests around the “alt-right” gym in Nashville, Tenn.,…
