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Oklahoma Republican Apologizes for ‘Colored Babies’ Freudian Slip During Debate on Anti-Abortion Bill
Boooooy, some of these conservatives really need racism rehab. They should all stand up in a room full of supporters and say, “My name is Slurry McNegroEpithet, and I just can’t seem to stop saying the quiet part out loud when in mixed company,” to which the audience would reply, “Hi, Slurry,” and then the…
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Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist, But Even If It Did…Maaaaaan, I Know Conservatives Ain’t Talkin'
First of all… In 2002, Rush Limbaugh’s puss-bucket, Bill O’Reilly, successfully used his platform on Fox News to pressure Pepsi to cancel their business relationship with legendary Atlanta rapper Ludacris and pull every single one of its ads that featured him from the airwaves. It took one day. “I’m calling for all responsible Americans to…
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Gun Store Owner Orders Customer to Leave Store Over 'Marxist' and 'Fascist' Black Lives Matter Face Mask
Years ago, I wrote a lengthy essay for the Washington Post in which I explained that I see no value in expending even a drop of energy or emotional/ intellectual labor on arguing with wilfully obtuse white people about systemic racism, Black Lives Matter or literally anything else related to social justice. Nearly every day…
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Tucker Carlson Says QAnon-ified Capitol Rioters Aren't Terrorists, They're 'Gentle People Waving American Flags'
The above photo is a live shot of Fox News host Tucker Carlson taking a dump. No, seriously, because that’s exactly what’s going on whenever he opens up the septic tank that is his mouth about literally anything. Tucker Carlson is modern white supremacy in a nutcase…I mean, nutshell. Modern white supremacy does everything but…
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Inauguration Poet Amanda Gorman Tweets About Recent Racial Profiling Experience With Security Guard Outside her Apartment
National Youth Poet Laureate, inauguration show-stealer and 2019 honoree for The Root’s Young Futurists (yes, that was a humble brag) Amanda Gorman knows that her new-found fame won’t protect her from the ramifications of being Black in America. What’s the old saying? “Perform for the new president on Monday, earn a modeling career on Tuesday,…
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Black Middle School Student Allegedly Shot With BB Guns, Called Racial Slurs and Made to Drink Urine During Texas Sleepover
Police officials and the Plano Independent School District of Plano, Texas, are investigating allegations made by a Black middle school student and his family involving bullying, racism and unbelievable cruelty. The family alleges that a group of students at Haggard Middle School invited 13-year-old SeMarion Humphrey to a sleepover, only to force him to drink…
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3 Black Men Released From New York Prison After 24 Years. Judge Determined That Prosecutors Withheld Evidence of Their Innocence
It seems like not more than a few weeks ever passes before The Root covers another story about wrongly convicted Black men being released from prison after spending years and even decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit due to the wilful negligence and indifference of law enforcement and courts. In 1996, George Bell, Rohan…
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3 Black Men Detained in High-End Retail Store for Hours by San Francisco Police Over False Claim That One of Them Brandished a Gun
Being young and Black in America is a full-time job. It feels like every minute of your life, you’re on the clock, and your job is to be aware. You have to be aware at all times of your surroundings, your demeanor and how you’re being perceived, lest you be blindsided with instant criminalization while…
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Washington State Sheriff's Captain Suspended Over Facebook Post Calling Black Teens 'Animals'
One thing about cops, they want to be treated like they’re someone special in society, but a lot of them don’t want to be held to a higher standard than the civilians they protect, serve and sometimes have to arrest. One sheriff’s captain in Washington state’s King County found out the hard way that it…
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Dr. Seuss Books Are Selling Like Green Eggs and Hotcakes Amid Non-Troversy Over Ditching of 'Racist' Books
So, conservatives across the country got their Cat in the Hat themed Underoos all in a bunch over imaginary cancel culture that only had imaginary things to do with Dr. Seuss Enterprises making its own damn decision to discontinue six books—most of which, like, nine people total have read—from publication over what it deemed to…
