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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Racism Life Support
When professor Henry Louis Gates founded The Root 11 years ago, he probably had no idea that its creation would one day become the internet’s number one source for black news (it’s not bragging if it’s true). He probably assumed he and his team were creating an outlet to give voice to a population that…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Y'all Won
Of all the things I have ever written for The Root, there are a handful of articles that inspired the most material for the weekly Clapback Mailbag. If I had to rank them from lowest to high in terms of hate mail received, the order would go as follows: 5. “An Open Letter to White…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: America, the Brutal Fool
Since yesterday was America’s birthday, let’s begin the Clapback Mailbag with a patriotic song: O brutal fools, those racist whites, with grammar that’s a shameFor mountains of hate mail we receive, filled with white tears of painA mailbag’s here! A mailbag’s here! Our readers love when weClapback at all the racist trolls who email, DM…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Math
Remember the Clapback day, to keep it holy. Five days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the Friday is the Clapback Day of the Root, thy website. In it, though shalt respond to the emails tweets and DMs ye received. All week, wypipo raised all holy hell. And on Fridays, we shalt…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Clapback to Reality
Every Friday, when I wade through the emails, tweets and direct messages received from the readers of The Root, I wonder how they can disagree with science, statistics, and history. Whether it’s Hoteps, Trump supporters or store-brand, Great Value white people, they are willing to discount verified facts, peer-reviewed studies, documented accounts of history and…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: White People
People are worried about me. In the past two weeks, no less than three people asked me if I ever worry about my career as a writer. In so many words, each one of them said that I am increasingly becoming a one-trick pony. They wondered if I am worried about being pigeonholed or being…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Why?
Editor’s Note: Senior Writer Michael Harriot is on vacation, so this week’s Clapback Mailbag was prepared in advance. If anyone on The Root’s staff has pissed white people off in the last few days, we promise to respond to their concerns in a timely manner. Why is the Clapback Mailbag so important? Because wypipo need…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Dream a Little Dream
Fourscore and 12 Fridays ago, our writers brought forth, upon this website, a new weekly feature—The Clapback Mailbag. Nearly two years after this momentous decision, the mailbag proves, every single week, that the Caucasian still lives on a comfortable island of delusion in the midst of a vast ocean of truth. So we come, each…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Right to Be Hostile
I love the Clapback Mailbag. Contrary to popular belief, responding to the emails, tweets, comments and direct messages from random people who want to explain why I’m wrong does not depress me. It doesn’t upset me in the least. This isn’t a labor of love because I don’t even consider this labor. One of the…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Unusual Suspects
The biggest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing white people they weren’t racist. His second biggest was to convince them to send emails, tweets, DMs and comments to The Root. Who are these people? Some say it’s angry wypipo. Others say it’s racist dummies. But to hear them tell it, they’re rational-thinking, concerned Americans…