Although I am rarely amazed by racism, privilege or America in general, when it comes to the audacity of whiteness, I am sometimes astounded at white peopleâs perception of black people. I often marvel at the Caucasian notion of our inherent simplemindedness; the idea that dangling any dancing black puppet in front ofâŚ
During a campaign stop WWE match political rally in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump claimed that African-American voters have been choosing Democrats almost exclusively for over a century.
If youâve kept up with how black women roll in American politics, what happened in Alabama last night should hardly surprise you. Per usual, black women showed up and showed out at the ballot box, helping Doug Jones win Jeff Sessionsâ vacated Senate seat in what was supposed to be a safe victory for RepublicanâŚ
The above photo is not a stock photo or an image created by The Rootâs art department. It is an actual flyer circulating around from the Doug Jones for Senate Committee in his run against Elmer Fudd wannabe and schoolgirl aficionado Roy Moore for Alabamaâs U.S. Senate seat, and it has upset black voters across Alabama.
The enfranchisement of thousands of felons in Alabama could swing the stateâs crucial Senate election Dec. 12 in favor of Democrat Doug Jonesâand accused sexual assaulter of underage girls, and Republican Senate nominee, Roy Moore does not like this turn of events.
Leave it to the donkey party to act an ass and see an opportunity dangled before it and stupidly squander time debating whether or not an obvious winning strategy is worth pursuing.
Will Democrats ever actually listen to black people in terms of strategy and vote targeting? Can a political party toss over $1 billion into the trash two election cycles in a row? Does it really take a genius to figure out that if a group votes for you 90 percent of the time, you should do what it takes to make sureâŚ
I was on my way to the Jon Ossoff watch party at a fancy Westin in North Atlanta when I got a call from a good colleague of mine. Somewhere between a black millennial and Gen Xer, he was someone whoâd worked on campaigns in Georgia and had a pretty good feel for what was going on throughout Atlanta and the surroundingâŚ
Nowhere does the question âWhatâs the next step?â carry more significance than in black America. Safe to say that most black voters feel like Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow, repeatedly slain by aliens on a violent beachhead one day and repeatedly waking up the next in a dopey haze of âDid that just happen?â
Shout out to all the woke young brothers whoâve stood up in response to the injustices we've seen too frequently these past years, like when the lives of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Dontre Hamilton and Sandra Bland and too many tragic others were lost needlessly with callous impunity.
Frantically saving himself from the rat-a-tat of queries from skeptical black journalists at a rushed âoff recordâ session at the GOP headquarters months ago, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus dropped the only mic he could think of to shut up the crowd: âI used to work for the NAACP Legal DefenseâŚ
If youâre black, enfranchised and under 35, youâve probably caught hell from at least a dozen people about your civic duty to vote. (Something about your ancestors bleeding and dying for your right to vote, and how folks your age should be galloping to the polls. Itâs like your civic duty to stand for the AmericanâŚ
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Ferguson-Florissant School District in suburban St. Louis must change its election process, after finding that the current school system is unfair to black voters, USA Today reports.
On Wednesday, as Philadelphiaâs center was overrun by throngs of Democratic conventiongoers, The Root and legendary Philadelphia radio station WURD 900 AM collaborated blocks away on Broad Street to discuss what the black agenda might beâespecially after what is shaping up to be the most contentious presidentialâŚ
Hillary Clinton announced her vice presidential pick Friday, and though many didnât seem to know much about Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, most black folks seem OK with her choice. Bernie Sandersâ supporters, however, are fuming over a hacker breach of the Democratic National Convention server, which threatens to disturbâŚ
So, telling us something we already knew, the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll pushed out a piece of news still useful for the confirmation: A majority of Donald Trump supporters donât like black folks.
Letâs face it. Black voters are about the only folks in 2016 who havenât lost their damn minds.
Bernie Sanders's recent "ghetto" gaffe is the latest in a string of race-related misunderstandings and misjudgments experienced by the senator during his presidential campaign. There was the #BlackLivesMatter thing. And the multiple times he â either himself or through his campaign â brought up his presence in theâŚ
