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Law Enforcement, News

Efforts to Ban White Supremacists From Joining Law Enforcement Face Pushback in Several States. I Wonder Why

The Capitol riot has seemingly awakened white America to a fact we’ve known for quite a while: racists work everywhere. There was genuine shock that vets, enlisted service members, and members of law enforcement participated in a violent act of insurrection. That event has resulted in multiple state legislatures introducing bills that would prevent members…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

May 11, 2021
News

Trump Forced to Start His Own Online Platform Just as Facebook Upholds Its Ban on the Former President

Every now and again, the world gets it right: Rudy Giuliani’s apartment got raided, student loan payments have been suspended, and Rory and Mal are back on The Joe Budden Podcast. Also, four months ago, most social media companies banned the former President of Florida, the asshole of America, Donald Trump, from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

May 5, 2021
News

Swipe Left: Bumble Match Results in Capitol Rioter Being Turned in to the Feds and Facing Charges

Imagine spitting game so trash the shit potentially gets you sent to jail? Couldn’t be me. Though apparently that’s the case for a New York man who was turned in to the FBI after bragging about allegedly storming the Capitol to a Bumble match only a week after the riot transpired. According to the Washington…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

April 23, 2021
News, Opinion, Opinion

What if White People Are Wrong?

Of all the toxic traits that white supremacy offers, perhaps its most oxymoronic byproduct is the supreme confidence with which it endows its adherents. At this very moment, someone reading these words is absolutely certain that they are excluded from the group most Black people consider to be racist. Meanwhile, perhaps the most anti-racist white…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

April 20, 2021
News

Surprise, Surprise: Facebook Groups for Elite Military Members Become Platforms for Racism, QAnon-sense and Election Fraud Propaganda

It should surprise absolutely no one that some elite members of the U.S. armed forces are QAnon-following MAGAts who are gullible enough to buy into ex-y’all’s-president’s “stop the steal” propaganda and racist enough to believe that Black Lives Matter is an evil that should be punished. It’s also not surprising that these military veterans had…

By

Zack Linly

Published

April 16, 2021
Beauty + Style

The Glow Up 50 2021: Meet the Innovators of Image

The category is: Image. We hear it over and over again: “Representation matters.” But an ongoing racial reckoning and inventory of the fashion, media and beauty industries (among others) has confirmed what we’ve long known: representation is more than just the image of inclusion. True inclusion means representation at every level—and when it’s there, the…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

April 15, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, News, Opinion

The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Cotton Pickin' Facts

This edition of the Mailbag is dedicated to all of the people out there fighting racism. Not the ones who want to eliminate white supremacy. This is also not for those who want to wipe out education, employment and economic inequality. If you’re against police brutality, this is not your Mailbag. Today, we are celebrating…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

April 9, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, News, Opinion

The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Caucasian Race Theory

Like most people, I have a special alert for when I receive emails from important people. And, of course, The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton is on the email VIP list. Sometimes, it’s something important like when Crown Royal announces a new flavor or a video of a white woman calling the police on a Black…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

April 2, 2021
Politics

Nestor Is Not Going to Like This, But We’ve Got to Talk About Matt Gaetz and That Weird Tucker Carlson Interview

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), the adoptive father of Nestor—a man-boy he has not adopted—was in big trouble Tuesday evening after an explosive New York Times exposé that revealed he was under federal investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. And get this: it was Trump’s Justice Department, headed by evil Fred Flintstone…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

March 31, 2021
Culture, Technology

Despite Bans, Extremist Groups Are Alive and Thriving on Facebook

I feel like the reason Facebook was so resistant to implementing restrictions on white supremacists and conspiracy theorists is because that’s largely who its consumer base is now. While the social media company began implementing restrictions on pages that advocate violence and hate, a recent report has found that many extremist groups are still actively…

By

Joe Jurado

Published

March 23, 2021