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Arkansas Republicans Are Set to Make Voting in the State Much More Challenging (for Black People)
Republicans in Arkansas are following the lead of their pals in Georgia, Texas, Michigan and other GOP-controlled state legislatures in advancing laws that would make it harder for people to vote, CNN reports. One of the harsher bills Arkansas lawmakers are pushing prevents people who are not voting from entering polling locations unless they are casting…
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Maybe America Is Racist
A few years ago, while covering a story on Republican New Hampshire legislator Werner Horn, I summoned the best and brightest scholars that America had to offer. Horn, who represents his 95.9 percent white hometown in his state’s House of Representatives, confounded people who actually know things by stating that “owning slaves doesn’t make you…
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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…
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Reactions to MLB Moving All-Star Game From Georgia: Some Dems Acknowledge Necessity of Action, Big Mad Republicans Blame Wokeness
The fallout from Georgia’s new voter suppression laws and the Major Baseball League’s decision to pull the All-Star Game from Atlanta in reaction to them, continues. Activists, Democratic leaders and the Republicans whose actions drove the MLB’s decision to make a bold move against restrictions at the ballot box spent the weekend taking different sides…
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'I'm Facing 8 Years in Prison': Georgia Rep. Park Cannon Speaks Out for First Time Since Arrest for Being Anti-Voter Suppression
Last week, Brian Kemp, Georgia’s governor of Black vote purgatory, surrounded himself with equally Klan-ish white men who appropriately stood in front of a plantation portrait while Kemp signed legislation that sent a single message to non-white voter demographics across the state: Either start voting Republican, or they’ll make it harder to vote at all.…
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Texas Republicans' Response to Georgia's Voter Restriction Laws: Hold My Beer
Republicans, no matter which state, know one thing: The more access people have to the ballot box, the less likely most people will vote for them. The remedy to that problem is simply to restrict people’s access to voting. Republicans in Texas, following the voter suppression efforts of their colleagues in Georgia, have advanced a…
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Delta CEO, Atlanta's Major Sports Teams Call Out Georgia's Voting Law; Flood of Corp. Statements After Black Execs Demand More Companies Speak Out
The story of the egregious legislation recently passed by Republican lawmakers in Georgia, which prohibits the handing out of water or food to people standing in line to vote—along with other measures transparently aimed at limiting voting, is not yet over. The CEO of Delta Air Lines, Ed Bastian, on Wednesday issued a memo sharply…
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Really, Now? Cop Who Arrested Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon for Knocking on Governor's Door Claims Events of Jan. 6 Were on His Mind
The last time I wrote about the arrogance of white people, arrogant white people demanded I retract the statement or else they would be even more arrogant and racist. So today, I’m taking a different tack and instead talking about the audacity of whiteness, as exemplified by the Georgia state patrol officer who arrested state…
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A Black Girl's Event on Being a Better White Person Has Triggered the Worst White People
Great news! There’s a vaccine for racism! According to some people, eradicating the scourge of discrimination, white supremacy and oppression is easy. The Caucasian cure for systemic inequality involves the simple task of ignoring the issue, pretending it doesn’t exist and shutting the fuck up until the problem magically dissipates into thin air. While naysayers…
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A Profile in Cowardice: Sen. Lindsey Graham Can’t Wait to Wave His AR-15 During the Next National Disaster
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina claims to own an AR-15. I don’t believe him. Maybe he does. Maybe he uses it as a hat stand or a leveling device to steady his kitchen table. But Graham wants America to believe that he’s a gun owner and that this isn’t about his dick. But…
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