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Unqualified Impunity: Amy Coney Barrett Once Ruled That a Cop Wasn't Responsible for a Black Teenager's Death Because Breathing Isn't a Constitutional Right
Amy Coney Barrett is a right-wing extremist. She does not believe George Floyd had a right to breathe. She doesn’t believe that screaming the n-word is necessarily “hostile.” She does believe in Jesus, though. While Judge Barrett has displayed a Mitch McConnell-like ability to evade direct questions about her legal opinions on a woman’s right…
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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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Remember America?
I bet you miss her. Enduring these last four years of hate, ineptitude and chaos has created a new longing for a return to the old America. The next few weeks leading up to the 2020 election will be filled with people who want to go back to the coronavirus-free, more tolerant America that they…
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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::…
