Race Matters
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UCLA Just Dropped Its 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report and…It's Heavy on the Mayonnaise
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Hollywood has a bit of a diversity problem. For those out the loop, look no further than Sunday night’s Oscars, which featured a grand total of—wait for it—five black nominees. If the ceremony were any whiter, it’d be mistaken for a Klan rally. Which brings us to…
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!['[N-Word] Hating' White Student Arrested, Kicked Out of California College After Drunken, Racist, Homophobic Rant](https://www.theroot.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/idctr6cwsrazke6nky2v-300x169.jpg)
'[N-Word] Hating' White Student Arrested, Kicked Out of California College After Drunken, Racist, Homophobic Rant
Dayton Kingery got an education he didn’t initially apply to school for. The 21-year-old Chapman University student was arrested and is no longer a student at the Orange County, Calif. college after going on a rant in a campus classroom and then destroying property. According to the Orange County Register, local police arrested Kingery on…
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CEO Loses His Cool and Then His Job After Calling an Uber Driver the N-Word
I imagine a lot of white people miss the good ol’ days before dashcams, internet, social media, digital activism, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, integrated lunch counters, all-white governments and the God-given right of every color-redacted American to call a black person “nigger” and go on about their business like it’s just another Tuesday.…
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Books in Blackface: Barnes & Noble Celebrates Black History Month by Showcasing White Books
I always knew Mrs. Bookman was wrong. Mrs. Bookman talked in low but energetic whispers, smelled like a pocketful of nickels and I assumed—because she was the town librarian—that she had read every book in the Hartsville Public Library. I adored Mrs. Bookman. (Looking back, I honestly think she used a pseudonym. Then again, if…
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Media Outlets, Politicians Get Roasted by Twitter for Treatment of Black Women in Parliament: ‘This Is Due to Institutional Racism’
As black folks throughout the world can attest, white people far too often have an extreme degree of difficulty telling us apart. Footage of LeBron James was somehow included in broadcasts covering the death of Kobe Bryant and, not too long ago, both Fox News and CBS were forced to apologize after mistaking the late…
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NYC Coughs Up $1 Million in Settlement With Black Teachers Targeted for Their 'Big Lips,' 'Nappy Hair'
In a perfect world, being an unrepentant racist would disqualify people like Minerva Zanca from ever working in the public school system. Sadly, not only was she gainfully employed, but she was the principal at Pan American High School in Queens, N.Y.—and her alleged racist behavior just cost the city more than a million dollars…
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More Georgia Racism: Snellville Business Owners Find 'No More N***er Businesses' Letters Pinned to Their Stores
I live in Stone Mountain, Ga., about a 20-minute drive out from Snellville, Ga., which is the scene of today’s episode of “Damn, That’s Racist.” According to CBS 46, several businesses in Snellville—where my black brother and his black wife, daughter and son currently reside—recently received letters from an anonymous, but likely white person who…
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Neo-Nazi Slapped With $13 Million Fine for Targeting Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams With Racist Robocalls
If there were such thing as a Racist Hall of Fame, neo-Nazi podcaster Scott Rhodes of Idaho would be its latest inductee. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Rhodes is facing a $12.9 million fine for harassing Andrew Gillum supporters with a deluge of racist robocalls during his 2018 Florida gubernatorial campaign. According to the FCC’s…
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I’m Not Saying the NYPD Is Racist, I’m Just Saying That 90 Percent of Jaywalking Tickets in the Bronx Go to Black and Brown People…And Now It’s Being Investigated
Earlier this month, Anne Branigin, The Root’s resident hot pot connoisseur, revealed some startling statistics: A recent StreetsBlog analysis found that, between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, 2019, NYPD issued 316 summonses for jaywalking—and nearly 90 percent went to black or Latinx people (as the article notes, this rate dwarfs the city’s black and Latinx…
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Megyn Kelly Wants Equality When It Comes to Blackface
Megyn Kelly is the human embodiment of not having a fucking clue. She repeatedly demonstrates just how ignorant and out of touch she is every time she opens her mouth. It’s like her whiteness is so blinding, she is unable to see anything beyond her own myopic, white and privileged view of how the world…