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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…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 8, 2021
News, Opinion, Wypipo

Apparently Human Scrabble Is a Thing, and a Group of White Teachers in Missouri Have Managed to Make It Racist

Oh boy, y’all. Today I learned that human Scrabble is apparently a thing people do, and leave it to a group of white teachers in Missouri to find a way to make it racist. According to the Kansas City Star, a group of teachers at the Christian School District in O’Fallon, Mo., were photographed holding…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

March 5, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, News, Opinion

The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Blacker the Content, the Whiter the Tears

The Clapback Mailbag was never supposed to be about me. When we first came up with this idea, I assumed every writer at The Root received damp emails, DMs and tweets soaked with the tears of white clowns. In my view, if you can’t make white people mad, are you even trying? (Sometimes, I am…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 5, 2021
News, Opinion, Wypipo

Ex-New York Times Writer Bari Weiss Begins New Job as Whitest Woman Ever. Let Me Explain

Bari Weiss was an editor and staff writer for the New York Times until she resigned last year after she said she was victimized by an “illiberal environment” at the Times that “made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views.” Everything she described in the “illiberal environment” can be…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 4, 2021
News, Opinion, Opinion

Researchers Decry Declining Births in America, But What Incentives Are There for People to Have Babies?

The pandemic has helped usher in a decline in new babies being born in America, continuing a trend of diminishing birth rates that threatens the replacement levels of the country’s population. A CBS News report says data across two dozen states in the U.S. shows that a seven percent drop in births was recorded in…

By

Ishena Robinson

Published

March 4, 2021
News, Opinion, Some Thoughts

Did Queen Aoleon Joffer and Cleo McDowell Eventually Bone?

In anticipation of the upcoming Coming to America sequel, we decided to devote a week to some observations, questions, and theories we’ve always had about the iconic original. Reason(s) Why I Think They Eventually Boned: The final scene in Coming to America is Akeem and Lisa’s wedding parade, and all of Zamunda is there to…

By

Damon Young

Published

March 3, 2021
News, Opinion, Some Thoughts

Creighton's Greg McDermott Told His Team to 'Stay on the Plantation' Like That's a Normal Thing People Say and I Can't Stop Laughing About It

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By

Damon Young

Published

March 3, 2021
News, Opinion, Some Thoughts

The Fits of Coming to America's Darryl Jenks, Ranked From 'He Looks Warm' to 'WTF Is That?'

In anticipation of the upcoming Coming to America sequel, we decided to devote a week to some observations, questions, and theories we’ve always had about the iconic original. Juicy-headed Darryl Jenks might not have been the first person 10-year-old me was jealous of, but he’s the first person I can remember where I saw them…

By

Damon Young

Published

March 1, 2021
Auntie Unfiltered, News, Opinion

Auntie Unfiltered Sits Down With Vanessa Bell Calloway

Vanessa Bell Calloway has been in the business for a long time. From her turn as Yvonne Caldwell on All My Children where she famously (or is it infamously?) broke up Black power couple Angie and Jessie Hubbard to her turn as Princess Imani in the original Coming to America—when Prince Akeem asked her to…

By

Monique Judge

Published

February 26, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, News, Opinion

The Root's Clapback Mailbag: How to Be an Anti-Antiracist

Are you white? Are you tired of people pointing out your whiteness? Does all this “antiracism” talk ruffle your feathers? Well, we’ve got something for you! From the people who gave you, slavery, Jim Crow, racism and reverse racism, comes the newest product from Wypipo Laboratories… It’s Anti-Antiriacism!* Anti-Antiracism© is a bitter pill that provides…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

February 26, 2021