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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Thread
Today’s mailbag is very diverse. It is all-white. However, the diversity in today’s mailbag comes from the method of the white madness. The correspondences today are all from aggrieved cauliflower-colored citizens who read content on The Root and sent multiple messages expressing their outrage. There is a Twitter thread, a few emails and even a…
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The Radicalization of White America: How Donald Trump Weaponized Whiteness
On September 30, 2011, an unmanned American drone fired 40 missiles into the home of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen living in Yemen. The prominent Muslim cleric was placed on the U.S. government’s kill list because he reportedly inspired numerous terrorists, including Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army officer who was convicted of killing 13 and…
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Arrest Warrant Issued for Offset
Georgia law enforcement officers have issued a felony arrest warrant for rapper Offset, also known as Cardi B-minus, one-third of the Migos. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that police in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Ga., have issued an arrest warrant for Kiari Kendrell Cephus (which ranks No. 2 on the official list of the blackest…
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Authorities Thwart Deadly Terror Attack by Army Veteran
California law enforcement officials stopped an Army veteran from carrying out a deadly terror attack at a political rally, officials announced Monday, foiling a plot to retaliate for a recent mass killing at a New Zealand mosque. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, along with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County…
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White Woman Defaces Nipsey Hussle Memorial
A Connecticut mural to slain rapper Nipsey Hussle has been restored after a young white woman was captured on video defacing the memorial and snapping selfies in remembrance of her brazen act of whiteness. On Saturday, several people filmed a woman identified on social media as Kaitlyn “Kay Kay” Renee vandalizing a mural in Hartford,…
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Arya Stark Forces Night King to Drop Out of Presidential Race
Sen. Dwight Walker (R-Beyond the Wall), long thought to be a serious contender for the Iron Throne, abruptly ended his candidacy for president of the Seven Kingdoms late Sunday night after he was reportedly involved in an altercation in the VIP section of a nightclub just outside of Winterfell. Although he has not issued a…
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Teacher Resigns After Being Outed as an Alleged White Supremacist
A high school teacher resigned from an Illinois high school after he was exposed by anti-racism activists as a cyber-racist, which is like regular racism but for white cowards who can only espouse their hate when they are far from negroes and have a good wi-fi connection. Online sleuths found a number of posts reportedly…
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Watch: The Root’s Clapback Mailbag, Explained
Two years ago, The Root began a community service project intended to uplift the voices of some of our most loyal readers. Sure, we could have simply said “Thank you” and sent you on your merry way, but we wanted to do something more interactive, more personal. Thus, the Clapback Mailbag. Every Friday, we rummage…
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Paradise, Privilege and the Mysterious Death of Kenny Mitchell
“He tried to say something but the white man squeeze his neck. And then … he was dead.” — Eyewitness to the death of Kenny Mitchell text Those words reflect one of the few things we know about the death of 27-year-old Kenny Richie Marty Mitchell, who was known as “Mylez” to his friends and…
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Redlining: The Origin Story of Institutional Racism
To understand racism in America, one must first disabuse themselves of the idea that race is a social construct—an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society. Money is a social construct. We accept the idea that a dollar issued by the U.S. government is worth more than Monopoly money.…
