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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Bars
This mailbag is dedicated to all the ones who called the writers at The Root “racists”; to all the ones who wrote us emails saying we’d never amount to nothing; to everyone who sent angry emails when we were just trying to write articles and feed our babies. To all the niggas in the struggle……
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Read the full text of Frederick Douglass’ iconic speech.
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Black Supremacy
The Root is a hate group. It’s not my fault. Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton hired Black supremacist writers like Zack Linly, Joe Jurado and Ishena Robinson who took it upon themselves to call white women out of their names. There is an anti-white clique of writers at The Root, headed by Senior Editor Stephen Crockett, who…
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America Is a Confederate Monument
I am 6. I am sad because my face is black and not striped. My sisters and I are at Kalmia Gardens, the beautiful home of Thomas Hart, who founded my hometown, Hartsville, S.C., in 1817. Every year, we visit the Kalmia Gardens Festival and every year, my mother forbids us from having the local…
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'My Ancestors Were Also Slaves': White Woman Brutally Assaulted by Black Lives Matter Mask
A white woman was forced to call all the managers—the police, corporate headquarters and the actual manager of a Long Island, N.Y., department store—after she was brutally assaulted by a Target employee’s Black Lives Matter mask. Before we begin, let’s dispense with the name-calling. Internet trolls have dubbed this woman “Ku Klux Karen,” which is…
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Georgia History Teacher Suspended for Teaching History
Authorities in a rural Georgia school district are punishing a history instructor who seemingly dedicated all of his spare time to teaching students. The district banned the beloved educator from coaching after administrators charged the man with a heinous rule violation—the history teacher was teaching history. Jordan Huerta has been teaching history at Tattnall County…
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Take Off Your Mask, Terry Crews
The coronavirus changed me. Before this pandemic, “Caucasian Acoustic Cruising” was one of my favorite pastimes. I loved rifling through YouTube to find examples of white people playing guitar while earnestly singing acoustic versions from the most ratchet negro songbook available. I watched this video of Chad Whitman (Not his real name, but probably his…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Couchbed Solution
This week’s Clapback Mailbag is about strawmen. When people try to disprove a reasonable argument by distorting the premise of the debate, there’s always a leap in logic that you might not notice unless you examine it closely. For instance, people who refute “black lives matter” with “but what about black-on-black crime” always forget to…
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Whiteness Will Never Be Canceled
It was white supremacy. It was never just about “discrimination” or “privilege” or “racism” or “anti-blackness” or “lack of diversity” or “hate” or “intolerance” or “police brutality” or “inequality” or any of the symptoms of America’s longest-lasting pandemic. There is no synonym for white supremacy. No euphemism exists that makes this disease more tolerable. If…
