eyes on 2020
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White Supremacy's Best Friend: Why Tim Scott Is the GOP's Magical Negro
Black people are literally magic. Now, I don’t believe in magic, but I’m pretty sure white people do. The only reason anyone could subject a people to the invisible-but-natural force of white supremacy is if they believed we possessed a power that they don’t have. There is no way any human being could deny Black…
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Obama, Jeezy, Team Biden Focus on Black Voters as Trump Focuses on Killing Them
Jeezy is not “young” anymore, and while The Root could not verify the color of Jeezy’s Lamborghini or his rims, we can, unfortunately, confirm that his president is no longer Black. To help rectify the situation and make sure that the next vice president is Black and the House, Senate and executive branch are blue,…
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Pete Buttigieg on Institutional Racism, Economic Inequality, and White Supremacy
“Systemic racism, and white supremacy in particular…is the force that is most likely to destroy America.” — Pete Buttigieg text He said it. And all it took was an 8-year-old viral video clip, his campaign polling at zero percent among black voters and someone calling him a “lying motherfucker.” Also, I am someone. During a…
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Fear of a White Moderate
Remember that time when white supremacists overthrew the government? No, not when they subverted the U.S. Constitution by deciding enslaved Africans were three-fifths of a white man. I’m talking about the other time. No, not when they added the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights because southern slaveholders were fearful of armed slave revolts;…
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Comparing the 2020 Presidential ‘Candydates’ to Halloween Treats
It’s Halloween so we thought we’d do something fun. But then, Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton strictly forbade me from dressing as Megan Thee Stallion and having a twerk-off against Monique Judge who, of course, dressed as Cardi B. Once that was out of the question, we decided to compare each one of the presidential candidates to…
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Cory Booker Raises Enough Money to Continue White House Bid
Of all the candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for president, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey may be the best-educated. He has three solid debate performances under his belt with no real slip-ups. His past is relatively scandal-free, and sources say that Cory Booker’s drug dealer friend would kick Joe Biden’s thugged-out homeboy’s ass…
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Beto O’Rourke Says Donald Trump Owes The Exonerated Five an Apology
“This is the most divisive, the most xenophobic, the most racist, the most nativist, the most Islamophobic president we have ever had.” — Beto O’Rourke text The Exonerated Five are in the spotlight following the release of Ava DuVernay’s Netflix series, When They See Us. Donald Trump, who took out full-page ads in New York…
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John Delaney Believes a Moderate Democrat Will Beat Trump, Says He's a 'Compassionate Capitalist'
I think a moderate Democrat is the best person to beat Trump by far. By any measure. So if you want change, we gotta beat Trump.—John Delaney text Former congressman and presidential candidate John Delaney told The Root in an interview that he believes a moderate Democrat will defeat Donald Trump in 2020. Unlike many…