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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: No Vaseline
Break’em off… Just waking up in the morning, gotta thank my bossfor giving me a day just to respondTo DMs and tweets from fuckwadsWho read our blog and get mad because we do our jobWhen we point out racism, Caucasians flip outThey troll us in the grays, but can’t get outSo they get real mad…
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Try Jesus, Not Karen: Amy Coney Barrett and the Utterly Untouchable White Woman
Jesus was just a metaphor. Whether or not one believes in the story of Yeshua ben Yosef as miracle or mythology, we can all agree on three things: He had rock hard abs. He was the best person to be around when you ran out of wine. He was expendable. If God actually sent his…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Yesterday
Today, there is no lede. Yesterday, the staff at The Root received this email From: MattTo: The Root Good afternoon, I love The Root, and you’ve got a great community of regular commenters on your site, but (as I’m sure you’ve heard plenty about) you have quite a few regular and not-so-regular trolls stirring up…
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They May Finally Arrest the Cop Responsible for Breonna Taylor's Death But it's Not Who You Think
After reviewing thousands of pages concerning officers’ involvement in the death of Breonna Taylor, a Louisville investigator concluded that the entire debacle was based on a “misleading” affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for Taylor’s apartment, recommending possible criminal charges for the offending officer, WDRB reports. Everyone knows the story by now: Jamarcus Glover…
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An Exclusive Interview With the Fly Who Crashed the Vice Presidential Debate
Perhaps the star of Wednesday night’s debate between vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Vice President Mike Pence was the housefly who managed to evade security and land on Pence’s head. While other outlets interviewed Pence and Harris, The Root managed to score an exclusive interview with the show-stealing housefly. The Root: Hi,…
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I'm Rooting for the Coronavirus
I remember Michael Harriot. Yesterday would have been his birthday. He was a human being. Before his untimely demise, Michael spent most of his time doing things like inhaling oxygen, exhaling carbon dioxide, and figuring out why people consume candy corn in a world where Skittles, Starburst and Now & Laters exist. Michael even believed…
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MacArthur Foundation Names New 'Geniuses'; 12 of This Year's 21 Fellows Are Black
Why are geniuses always evil? …And white? Comic book superheroes are always strong, righteous champions for truth and justice who battle immoral but creative supervillains who are usually so smart that we often refer to them as “evil geniuses.” Lex Luther was a scientist and a business magnate whose alopecia led him to a life…
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We Need to Talk About the White-on-White Virus In the Republican Community
This weekend, I watched in horror as members of the white community took to the streets in support of another so-called “victim” of COVID-19. While our beloved Constitution guarantees us the freedom of speech, it’s time we said something about these dangerous members of antifa (The anti-facemask movement) running wild in our streets. Politico reports::…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: You Might Be a White Supremacist If…
Some people believe that white supremacists spew the n-word, burn crosses on lawns and spend their spare time practicing their Nazi salute. I wish. I wish all white supremacists were all scraggly white men who could be identified by their Nazi armbands or their evil mustaches. If only they wore name tags or had a…
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What to Do When Your Country Turns Into a Dumpster Fire
America is America-ing again. As a certain coronavirus-y occupant of the White House brazenly intensifies his all-out assault on the Constitution, media, truth, law, order, equality, democracy and everything this beloved country supposedly stands for, our fellow Americans find themselves in a state of confusion and outright despair after wrongly assuming a free supply of…
