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Whenever someone asks if writing the weekly Clapback Mailbag ever gets old, I tell them that receiving and reading notes from people telling me why I’m so wrong can sometimes be annoying. But, to be fair, it’s not the receiving part that bothers me; I rather enjoy responding to our readers. But reading poorly punctuated…

Each Friday, we wade through our emails, tweets, comments and DMs to respond to readers who are searching for feedback, validation or someone at whom they can scream the n-word without being slapped like they stole something. But not this week. When the pair of articles about Mayor Pete Buttigieg came out last week, there…

I don’t know if you heard about it, but I wrote something pretty controversial this week. I’ve always wondered how some people could live in a country so rife with inequality and racism and somehow conclude that race and whiteness had absolutely nothing to do with it, which was exactly why I wrote what I…

Y’all know me. Each Friday, I use my black privilege to attack poor hapless white souls who were only trying to live their lives and, maybe, occasionally, blurt out a “nigger” or two. And you’re part of it, too. The only reason we sift through tweets, emails, comments and direct messages is that we feel…

Time for your weekly edition of the Clapback Mailbag. Got something on your mind? Email the bag of fun. *Editor’s note: Michael, this sounds vaguely familiar. Are you sure you wrote this? **Writer’s note: Don’t worry, nothing like this exists on the internet. Trust me. We might as well go ahead and get this shit…

It has been a tough week here at The Root and all of G/O Media. First of all, I discovered that many of my co-workers here are fans of candy corn and putting sugar on their grits (which is kind of the same thing because sugar grits are technically candy corn). Later in the week,…

I feel sorry for white people. I can’t imagine having all of that responsibility. First of all, protecting white supremacy is a full-time job, in and of itself. Then, they have to find time to create and spread fictional narratives among themselves. How they managed to explain poverty, educational inequality and black unemployment by inventing…

Dear White People, Let’s work out a good deal! You don’t want to be responsible for oppressing millions of people and I don’t want to be responsible for destroying your fragile spirits—but I will. I’ve given you samples with respect to previous Fridays. The writers at The Root have worked hard to solve some of…