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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: For Your Consideration
One day soon, we’re probably going to have the Clapback Mailbag Awards. We’re working on a sponsor to present this idea with the prestige it deserves. Hopefully, we can convince a mail company like UPS or FedEx to pony up the money for the statues (which will probably be called the “golden envelope”). Or maybe…
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Living Paycheck to Paycheck Looks Different For Everyone, But the Struggle Is Still Real
There are a great many people in this country who are one missed paycheck away from financial ruin. They may not look like what you expect. They may drive nice cars, live in nice neighborhoods and even be what some people on Instagram would hashtag as #Goals, but beyond the happy smiles on social media,…
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Can the Jewish Community Benefit from White Privilege If They Are Targets of White Supremacy?
I’m racist. I know I’m not supposed to say that. I know there’s a school of thought that black people can’t be racist, but I am. My racism has nothing to do with my use of the word “Wypipo” or “Becky.” It is not related to my reluctance to consume Caucasian potato salad. I’m racist…
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RNC Catching Hell for Giving Black Friday MAGA Shoppers the Friends and Family Discount Nobody Asked For
Even though the Republican National Committee doesn’t have a soul, it’s somehow being accused of selling theirs. How exactly does that work? Allow me to explain. On Black Friday, the RNC’s official Twitter account posted the following sale: Innocuous, right? Because who doesn’t want 20% off their Donald Trump onesie? Not exactly. According to Huffington…
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Keep Hope Alive: Jesse Jackson Campaign Tees Make a Comeback—in Asia?
Who knew that Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign logo was a seminal piece of graphic design? The presidential run itself was historic. But 30 years later, why has there been a sudden resurgence in popularity for the memorabilia of the first black man to run for president—and why was that interest generated within the Asian market?…
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‘Black Skinned Storm Trooper’ Who Foreshadowed Kaepernick to Be Honored at TIDAL X: Brooklyn
Before Colin Kaepernick was born, a couple of black dudes, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, raised a couple of black-gloved fists to the sky as the U.S. national anthem played after they earned a couple of Olympic medals in Mexico City. They were protesting racial injustice and inequality during a decade in which Martin Luther…
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A Requiem for ‘White Women,’ Which the National Review Says Is a ‘Disparaging Term’
On Sunday, Oct. 14, Kyle Smith, the National Review’s critic-at-large, penned an opinion column alerting the magazine’s conservative readership of a disturbing new trend. Smith’s article lamented the fact that Democrats and people on “the left,” including this writer, are now slandering a sacrosanct segment of American society with an insidious, previously unknown racial slur:…
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Meet Latroya Pina: Howard University's Star Swimmer Will Represent Cape Verde at the 2020 Olympics
Latroya Pina has yet to graduate college, but she’s already accomplished one major historic first. In August, she was chosen to compete on Cape Verde’s first Olympic national team, alongside her two younger siblings, in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Considering that the small African island nation is sending only four total swimmers, the Olympics will…
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White Boycotts Don’t Work: How Nike Secured the Bag By Supporting Colin Kaepernick
As people more concerned with respecting inanimate objects and 200-year-old songs than the actual lives of black people continue to express their discontent with Nike’s support of Colin Kaepernick by setting their shoes on fire, everyone wondered how the boycott against Nike would affect the company’s bottom line. Everyone but me, that is. Even after…