Opinion
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Why Stephen Miller’s Emails Are White Nationalism Explained, Explained
Racist baby, it’s been a while! Why do you look so sad? Why would a musician have to stop making music? Oh no, my little racist toddler friend. I think you’re conflating the Steve Miller Band with White House adviser and founding member of the Hair Club for White Supremacists, Stephen Miller. The Steve Miller…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Why?
Y’all know me. Each Friday, I use my black privilege to attack poor hapless white souls who were only trying to live their lives and, maybe, occasionally, blurt out a “nigger” or two. And you’re part of it, too. The only reason we sift through tweets, emails, comments and direct messages is that we feel…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Thots and Prayers
Time for your weekly edition of the Clapback Mailbag. Got something on your mind? Email the bag of fun. *Editor’s note: Michael, this sounds vaguely familiar. Are you sure you wrote this? **Writer’s note: Don’t worry, nothing like this exists on the internet. Trust me. We might as well go ahead and get this shit…
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40 Questions for the People Who Stand as Soon as the Plane Lands
(Disclaimer: If you’re physically impaired in some capacity and need to stand as soon as the plane lands, please ignore this and keep standing! If not, well, answer me!) 1. Where are you going? 2. Do you not yet realize that we are going to the same place? 3. And that the door is shut?…
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10 Worthwhile Hobbies For These Bored Billionaires Who So Obviously Need Them
1. Cross-country road trips, where they drive to different states just to hunt and eat other rich people. 2. Provide funding for a commercial airline where the people who stand when the plane first lands are immediately ejected from it, shot into the atmosphere, and melted by the sun. 3. Go to the moon, and…
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Is the Top of the Refrigerator a Shelf? A Black Supreme Court Decision
As appointees to the Black Supreme Court, we are often called upon to settle the difficult issues of our time. Over the past two years, this court has found itself smack dab in the center of some of the most contentious cultural debates including: Which one is the Big Joker? Can Donald Trump read? Who…
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The Keynote Address From #BeckyCon2019
Today, the hashtag #BeckyCon2019 exploded on Twitter. It began when whistleblower Gail Simone noticed a blatant expression of white privilege on a plane, and recognized a conference attendee traveling to the inaugural conference. A joint effort between the Hallmark Channel and Oil of Olay, #BeckyCon2019 is a gathering of sundry white women seeking more information…
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I Will Never Forgive America for Trying to Convince Me That Richard Spencer Is ‘Dapper’
The pathologically un-rewatchable Joker has become the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history, surpassing Deadpool 2. I am not surprised by this, as the audience for depictions of maladjusted and sexually frustrated white men finding catharsis in violence is, well, bottomless. Add a mundane mythos, a late-’70s/early-’80s NYC aesthetic, a refried casserole of important seeming themes…
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Like Whiteness for Chocolate: Teacher Suspended for Dressing Up as Rapper Common, Complete With Blackface
Just when you thought blackface had been relegated to old college yearbooks, a California teacher provided the latest proof of white superiority—at least in the field of “trying it”—after he wore blackface in the classroom to buttress the bona fides of his Halloween costume. On Oct. 31, Milpitas High School teacher David Carter decided to…