Opinion
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Kevin Hart Won’t Get Redemption Until He Atones
Kevin Hart fucked up, and he is continuing to fuck up even as I write this. As my colleague Issac Bailey pointed out: He messed up by refusing to do what was easy and right. As others have noted, he should have simply apologized again for the old tweets because a new, larger audience would…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: What the FAWQ?
Don’t you hate when you go see one of your favorite artists in concert, but instead of the hits, they play songs from their new project? Well, you don’t have to worry about that with today’s mailbag. Today, we are just playing the classics. This week’s selection of emails, tweets and direct messages answer two…
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Kevin Hart and The Oscars: Redemption Must Be Available, Even to Former 'Homophobes'
Kevin Hart messed up. He messed up several years ago when he decided to craft a series of homophobic tweets that still haunt him. He messed up by refusing to do what was easy and right. As others have noted, he should have simply apologized again for the old tweets because a new, larger audience…
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Crazy Teacher Arrested For Forcibly Cutting a Student’s Hair While Singing the National Anthem
This story is qwhite bizarre. A teacher in Visalia, Calif., was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony child endangerment after she allegedly forcibly cut a student’s hair in front the class while loudly singing the national anthem. According to NBC News, Margaret Gieszinger is a teacher at University Preparatory High School, located on the campus…
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The North Carolina Republican Voter Fraud Scandal, Explained to a Racist 5-Year-Old
I’m not Hitler. Oh, wait, racist baby, I think you mean “Heil Hitler.” When Nazis raise their hands like that, they’re saluting. It’s not a greeting, it’s a racist gesture. OK, racist baby. It’s been a while since I’ve seen you. What’s been going on? Well, actually, my little intolerant toddler, it is the white…
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Apparently, the New York Times Really Misses White Supremacy
While life and familiarity have, for the most part, left me unfazed by the audacity of whiteness, there are times when I am still awestruck by its reckless cockiness. How it can feel nostalgic about slavery and wax poetic over wickedness. How it dances in the middle of the ballroom floor, twirling on top of…
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New Birth and Jamal Bryant: Time for the Black Church To Address Its Culture of Sexism, Misogyny and Homophobia
“Repent ye therefore, and be converted.” –Acts 3:19 Rev. Jamal Bryant, the former pastor of Empowerment Temple A.M.E. Church, has inherited the pulpit of the late Bishop Eddie Long. While the public has speculated about both Bryant’s and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church’s motivations for this move or whether Long’s son had applied for the…