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News, Race Matters

‘Be Less White’: Coca-Cola Faces Backlash for Giving Wypipo Wonderful Advice in Diversity Training Program

“Be less white.” If it were up to me, this would be America’s motto. Instead of the Pledge of Allegiance, children in school should stand up before class, put their hands over their hearts and shout “BE LESS WHITE” at the flag for five minutes before beginning the day’s lessons. (I’m old AF and I…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 24, 2021
News, Race Matters

We Sure Aren’t Living in a Post-Racial World: U.N. Head Says White Supremacy a ‘Transnational Threat’

America exports a whole lot of its culture to the rest of the globe—music, movies, ways of dress, slang. This country’s addiction to white supremacy is also known across the world, but the U.S. isn’t the only nation to have embraced the hideous ideology throughout history or—more critically—to be driving it forward today. That’s according…

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Ishena Robinson

Published

February 22, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, News, Opinion

The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Wypipolympics

We interrupt the regularly scheduled Clapback Mailbag to bring you this special program: Welcome to the inaugural Wypipolympics! To give back to the white community, the National Institute for the Greater Good of African Americans Proudly Launching A Stand for Equality (NIGGAAPLEASE) sponsored this weeklong competition to celebrate the staffers at The Root who earn…

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Michael Harriot

Published

February 19, 2021
News, Race Matters

Michigan Man Hangs KKK Flag in Window Facing Black Neighbor’s Home

Imagine a white man who is so committed to old-fashioned American racism that even the smallest perceived offense coming from a Black person becomes the perfect excuse to start displaying Ku Klux Klan memorabilia in an attempt at clapping back. A Black woman in Michigan doesn’t have to imagine it, because she apparently lives right…

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Zack Linly

Published

February 18, 2021
Culture, Health

Whiteness Anonymous: A 12-Step Program for QAnoners and 'Not All White' People Suffering From Trump Withdrawal Syndrome

It’s been 29 days since Joseph Robinette Biden became the 46th president of the United States, sending QAnon Adventists into severe withdrawals from America being made great again. While some outlets have shamed the idiots patriots who were victimized by the cult of Q, The Root would never. According to an NPR/Ipsos poll, 17 percent…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

February 18, 2021
News, Race Matters

White AF Wisconsin Superintendant Candidate Says She Was Called N-Word Because Her 'Lips Were Bigger Than Most.' *Sigh*

Every day I say to myself, “there’s no higher level of caucasity than that,” and every day wypipo prove me wrong. In Wisconsin, a white woman—who is running for a position that would make her the state’s top education official—tweeted something that didn’t just put her out of her lane, it put her on the…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 17, 2021
News, Race Matters

Jacksonville Jaguars Hires Former College Football Coach Accused of Racism and Abuse Because…Why Not?

Over the past year, America has gone through a racial awakening of sorts, but that doesn’t mean things have changed all that much. For example, by and large, white people still don’t really believe Black people when we say something racist has happened to us. That’s why Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer has defended…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 12, 2021
News, Race Matters

Department of Justice Dismisses Case Against Yale That Basically Alleged Reverse Discrimination

It’s a sad day for the whites. The Department of Justice has dismissed a case against Yale alleging that the school participated in the scourge that countless white folks across the country face: reverse racism. According to ABC News, the DOJ filed a notice on Tuesday with the district court in Connecticut informing them that…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

February 4, 2021
News, Race Matters

Black Woman Says She Received 'African American, African' Service Charge From American Airlines. Seriously, WTF?

Have you ever encountered an act of racism that—even in America, the land of acts of racism—leaves you so confused you’re forced to ask, “But why though?” Kyetra Bryant said she was the victim of that type of bewildering racism on Thanksgiving last year after she and her boyfriend had checked in with American Airlines…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 1, 2021
News, Opinion, Opinion

Corporate Monopolies Are a Racial Justice Issue. We Need Federal Regulation Now

From a racial justice perspective, it is important to note that all major industries in America are monopolies controlled by white owners and decision-makers. Whether it’s a single business taking over a town or entire industry or a dozen companies colluding to maintain anti-Black norms, the effects for Black people have always been the same—exclusion…

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Color Of Change

Published

January 29, 2021