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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Errors and Omissions
“There ain’t been a perfect person on earth since Jesus took to the sky; and there won’t be none until he comes back” — Aunt Earlene To be fair, my Aunt Earlene has been married to a Pentecostal preacher, my Uncle Otis, since the mid-196os, so she knows very little about Black Thought—who has never…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: A Look Inside Our Secret Location
Making our way in the world todayTakes all black people got.Taking a break from wypipoSure would help a lot. Wouldn’t you like to get away? Sometimes you want to goWhere the Karens can be shamedAnd the cops don’t cock and aimYou want to be where they clap on beatand reparations can be claimed.You want to…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Cleaning Solution
I was a shitty brother. I never abused my sisters. I just subjected them to years of mental abuse and torture. Perhaps the greatest example of my emotional terrorism was my stance on the bathroom. Before my mother returned home from work every day, she required us to clean the entire house. My sisters and…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Bars
This mailbag is dedicated to all the ones who called the writers at The Root “racists”; to all the ones who wrote us emails saying we’d never amount to nothing; to everyone who sent angry emails when we were just trying to write articles and feed our babies. To all the niggas in the struggle……
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Black Supremacy
The Root is a hate group. It’s not my fault. Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton hired Black supremacist writers like Zack Linly, Joe Jurado and Ishena Robinson who took it upon themselves to call white women out of their names. There is an anti-white clique of writers at The Root, headed by Senior Editor Stephen Crockett, who…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Couchbed Solution
This week’s Clapback Mailbag is about strawmen. When people try to disprove a reasonable argument by distorting the premise of the debate, there’s always a leap in logic that you might not notice unless you examine it closely. For instance, people who refute “black lives matter” with “but what about black-on-black crime” always forget to…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Nigga, I ain’t shitI just know how to rhyme a lil’ bitI’m just trying to squeeze fit my fat ass in wherever I can fit. — Cee-Lo Green Ninety-nine percent of the time, I already know what I’m going to say before I even begin to write the Clapback Mailbag. Today is the other one…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: White People Be Knowing
Thanks, Caucasians! This week’s mailbag was mostly filled with white people offering advice to black people on how to protest, how to respond to white supremacy and how to think in general. Although the unbelievable depth of white people’s brazenry knows no bounds, it’s always enlightening to learn about dealing with oppression from people who…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Old Whites' Tales
I’m not religious, and I know that thunder and lightning are caused by electrostatic charges superheating the air, producing a rapid atmospheric expansion that causes a sonic boom. I don’t think my hallucinations during REM sleep give me information about fertility, nor do I believe stop signs and telephone poles determine my future. I’ve done…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: True or False Equivalency
“If a white person said that…” “What about…” “The Bible says…” Those three introductory phrases are staples in the language used by trolls. But, while some people immediately tune out everything that follows, we at The Root have an obligation to respond to these false equivalencies. We even built a system for it. All during…