hate mail
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Always Bringing Up Old Stuff
I’m sorry. First, I would like to apologize to the readers who trusted me to bring them the latest and best clapbacks of the week. Next, I want to issue my deepest regrets to all the idiots, racists and people with generally bad grammar who feel ignored. I have failed you. This week, through the…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: The Whitest Email of All Time
I’m sorry, y’all, but this week we’re featuring only one piece of email. It’s not that we didn’t receive a lot of hate mail this week. (Don’t worry; we won’t ever run out of shitty comments from disgruntled readers of The Root—ever). It’s just that answering more than one piece of email this week would…
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Kan. Woman Receives Racist Letter: 'This Neighborhood Does Not Need Any Blacks In It'
Nancy Wirths received an anonymous, racist letter Monday stating that black people were not welcome in her Wichita, Kan., neighborhood, KSN.com reports. Wirths says that the handwritten letter was an attack on her and her biracial family—six of her nine grandchildren are African American. “I look over my shoulder. I watch. The kids aren’t allowed…
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White Neighbor Arrested After Fire Erupts in Home of Only Black Firefighter in Tonawanda, NY
Matthew Jurado, 39, had recently been removed from the Gratwick Hose Volunteer Fire Co. when a suspicious fire broke out at the home of Kenneth Walker, the only black firefighter in Tonawanda, N.Y. Two days before the incident, Walker had received a racist and threatening letter in his mailbox, NBC News reports. According to the news station,…
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The Most Entertaining Piece Of Hate Mail I've Ever Received, Deconstructed
It’s been a little over a week since I first wrote about Wendy Bell, the WTAE-TV news anchor whose racially insensitive Facebook post led to her losing her job. In the time since, I’ve received approximately 300 Bell-related emails. Most of which — I’d say 85 to 90 percent — have been very positive, appreciative, and…