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This Headline Is for When Donald Trump Says Something Racist in Wisconsin, Which He Surely Will [Updated]
If your End Times Apocalypse Bingo Card had the revolution starting in Wisconsin, congratulations, you might be in the running for the grand prize of an FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine. (Spoiler alert: It’s just a 2 percent solution of Clorox, McDonald’s Sprite and Sen. Jim Jordan’s armpit sweat.) President Donald Trump is scheduled to incite more…
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Police Union Criticizes NHL Team for Opposing Racism
Racist white people hate being called racist white people. I know this because I receive emails, tweets and DMs from white people who are insulted by the notion that all white people don’t hate Black people. Most recently, after an article about patriotism and the NBA strike (or this one about Ben Shapiro…or this one…
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Portland, Ore. Police Investigating White Suspect in Caucasian-Involved Shooting Death at Trump Rally
As a nod to the standards of white mainstream journalism, this story is reported in the language used to report crimes involving Black suspects, “officer-involved” shootings and protests against racial injustice. Police are investigating a military veteran’s involvement in what appears to be a white-on-white shooting death of a gang member participating in a protest…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The More Things Change
On August 25, 2017, The Root changed the world when it began a feature called the Clapback Mailbag. Back then I thought white people would NEVER stop being racist but I must admit I was wrong. We’re really proud of the part we played in changing the national zeitgeist. Thanks to us, you get to…
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Turning Pain Into Policy: Kamala Harris, Ben Crump Explain Why Police Reform Starts With Economic Justice
Whatever personal feelings one may hold about vice presidential hopeful Kamala Harris’ history as a prosecutor, attorney general and senator, the vast majority of lawyers, legal scholars and criminal justice experts agree on one inarguable fact: She is not Mike Pence. Unlike Pence, Harris wears a mask. Harris doesn’t think COVID-19 will take a self-care…
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This Is Patriotism
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Fire and Light
I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a styleAnd so I came to see him to listen for a whileAnd there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowdI felt he found my letters and read each one out…
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9 Years a Slave: Black Combat Veteran Freed After Being Legally Enslaved Over $30 Worth of Weed
This headline is clickbait. To be clear, Derrick Harris is Black. He is also a combat veteran who served in the Army during Operation Desert Storm. And, although the Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, the 13th Amendment made a special exception for people who commit a “crime whereof the party shall have been duly…
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Feds Indict Steve Bannon for Finessing Racists, and I Don’t Know How to Feel
If a white nationalist robs a racist in the woods, can you hear me not giving a fuck? Should we applaud the fact that the bigoted propagandist who gave us Breitbart, Milo Yiannopoulos and Donald Trump has been indicted for fraud? Or should we be happy that a bunch of xenophobic nitwits had their disposable…
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The Complete Guide to Defeating Voter Suppression
If you’re reading this, they don’t want to count your vote. If you, like many of our readers, are under the age of 40, progressive, live around non-white people or don’t have anyone in your circle of friends and family who owns a pair of wraparound sunglasses, Republicans are doing everything in their power to…
