Opinion
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I Just Found the Most Racist Photo (and Caption) on iStock. Here's My 10 Favorite Things About It
Yesterday afternoon, while searching “black man calls police” and “calling police black person” on iStock—to find a suitable picture for “My Self-Care Sunday Story: I Called The Cops On A White Guy”—I found the above pic. There are tens of thousands of images on iStock, and I won’t pretend to have seen them all. But…
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Rebel, Rebel: For White Women Who Block Black People on Twitter Because Apologizing Is Too Damn Much [Updated]
Before this weekend, I never really paid very much attention to Rebel Wilson. I knew she existed and had caught glimpses of her in a few things. I knew enough to know that her usual schtick is playing the funny, goofy or dorky fat girl in white comedies, but in my mind, she wasn’t as…
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Dear Daylight Savings Time, You a Whole Asshole Until My Kids Are Older
Most of the United States set their clocks back an hour this past weekend to mark the end of Daylight Savings Time, an invention the white man (no, really, also the first sentence of that article is some pure bullshit) created to apparently save the daylight for the evenings, which to be clear, is nowhere…
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With Bigotry on the Ballot, the Midterms Feel Like a Potential Back to the Back of the Bus Moment
During the final weeks and days of this midterm cycle, President Donald Trump has been busy rallying bigots and those in his base comfortable with bigotry. According to polling data from the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before Tuesday’s elections, it may be working, at least a bit. While Democrats remain strongly favored to…
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Iowa Teacher Who Wore Blackface Cries Whitest Tears Ever
Blaming her decision to wear blackface on ignorance and the media while offering up her own albino child as an excuse, a recently-released statement from the attorney of an Iowa teacher has earned her a potential nomination in the White Tears category of this year’s Wypipo Awards. Megan Luloff, a teacher at Walcott Elementary in…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: One of the Good Ones
I am the threat. Look at these hands, all knuckle and fist potential. Look at this skin that yields to nothing, not even the sun. Even my hair refuses to behave. I am the defiler of white women’s purity. The thug. The thing to fear. The threat. And the only way to mitigate the perception…
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Wisconsin Man Claims He Would Shoot His Liberal Sister in The Face for Trump
If you ever wanted to know just how much Trump fans are inspired by their leader, look no further than Steve Spaeth, a Wisconsin conservative who proudly claimed that if America moonwalked back into a civil war he’d have no problem shooting his liberal sister in the face. Ed Pilkington, a reporter for The Guardian,…
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Louis C.K. and the Tired Practice of White People Using Black People as Their Woke GPS
As Louis C.K. continues his comeback tour—recently stepping up from unplanned appearances at marquee comedy clubs in New York to scheduled sets—controversy has circled the comic yet again. There is, of course, the specter of whether it’s appropriate for Louis to begin headlining at comedy clubs again; it’s been a little over a year since…
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Yeezy Taught Him: A Theory on How the Yeezy Mauve’s Poor Sales May Have Rescued Kanye From the Sunken Place
At The Root we loves us a good conspiracy theory. All conspiracy theories. On the tame side, we absolutely believe that Russian bots stole the election through deception and Russian prostitution pee pee blackmail. And on the aluminum foil Kangol side, we believe that Tupac may or may not be living in a Cuban flat…