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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Thread
Today’s mailbag is very diverse. It is all-white. However, the diversity in today’s mailbag comes from the method of the white madness. The correspondences today are all from aggrieved cauliflower-colored citizens who read content on The Root and sent multiple messages expressing their outrage. There is a Twitter thread, a few emails and even a…
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Watch: The Root’s Clapback Mailbag, Explained
Two years ago, The Root began a community service project intended to uplift the voices of some of our most loyal readers. Sure, we could have simply said “Thank you” and sent you on your merry way, but we wanted to do something more interactive, more personal. Thus, the Clapback Mailbag. Every Friday, we rummage…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Every Friday Is Good Friday
People who read the Clapback Mailbag often ask how I can stomach wading through the morass of emails, tweets, comments and direct messages each week. It is true that they are often filled with hate, grammatical errors and ignorance, but the reason I love Fridays is simple: I love when white people get angry. I…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Something New Every Day
I need your help. While browsing through the emails, tweets and DMs for the clapback mailbag, I learn a lot about myself. This week I discovered that I am involved with a lot of extracurricular agendas. Here is the list: The gay agenda The leftist agenda Black Lives Matter terrorists The “real racists” Globalists The…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Undercover Wypipo
When I started today’s mailbag, the intro was going to be this really funny bit about how, for far too long, the Clapback Mailbag has neglected all the white people who aren’t racist but who aren’t actively fighting against racism. I was crafting this hilarious premise, doubled over in laughter (which, in my humble opinion,…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: A Good One
Each Friday, for more than two years, The Root has responded to emails and comments from our readers (and some people who obviously don’t read The Root). Not today. Today, there will be just one email and one response. From: TyrusTo: Michael Harriot I read your blog about the jaguar and found it to be…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Bad Words
Happy Clapback Day! From now on, I will only refer to the day between Thursday and Saturday as “Clapback Day.” I’ve done the etymological research and discovered that the day was named after the Greek god of hot grease, Frysomethis. It’s not that I want to censor or outlaw the old name. But, as a…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Racism Vaccine
Today’s mailbag only contains two pieces of mail. I just wanted to point that out up front before someone asks for their money back. It’s not because we’re running low on hate mail. It’s because we are running low on new kinds of hate mail. In the two years that we have been responding to…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Fairy Tales for Wypipo
Once upon a time, in a kingdom just outside Wakanda, there was a family called The Root who woke up at the break of dawn every day to tell the stories of black people. Some people called them journalists. Some people called them bloggers. The trolls from the gray part of the forest called them…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Just the Tips
Before we get into this week’s emails, tweets, DMs, and comments, many of my mailbag readers know that I am very carol-centric. I believe that no holiday is complete if it doesn’t have a song that people sing to celebrate it. “Silent Night” is for Christmas; “Auld LangSyne” is for New Years Day. “America the…