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News, Race Matters

Fight Breaks Out After Oklahoma High School Students Engage in 'Racist Taunting' of Black Basketball Players on Opposing Team

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: A lot of people need to get it out of their heads that racism will go away once older generations of white people die off. The fact is, those generations of white people raised children and a lot of those children are turning out to be…

By

Zack Linly

Published

March 3, 2021
News, Opinion, Some Thoughts

Creighton's Greg McDermott Told His Team to 'Stay on the Plantation' Like That's a Normal Thing People Say and I Can't Stop Laughing About It

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL I WILL NEVER NOT BE BOTH HORRIFIED AND TICKLED—TICKLEFIED—BY WHITE PEOPLE’S COMMITMENT TO INVENTING AND DISCOVERING NEW RACISMS LIKE HOW WAZE DISCOVERS NEW ROUTES HOW LAYS DISCOVERS NEW CHIPS HOW VAN JONES DISCOVERS NEW FENCES TO SQUAT ON IT IS THEIR CALLING THEIR VOCATION THEIR BIRTHRIGHT THEIR PASSION THEIR L’ AMOUR YUP I JUST…

By

Damon Young

Published

March 3, 2021
Politics

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley Said Systemic Racism is Fake and America 'Liberated Slaves'. I Translated His White Fragility Speech for You

So, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is out here pretending that he’s not the Meg Griffin of the Republican party again. On Friday, the clout-chaser-in-lying-about-antifa-attacks delivered a speech during Republican PornHub Live, aka the American Conservative Union’s annual CPAC conference in Orlando, Fla. Hawley gave a rousing speech about the future of the Republican party and…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 28, 2021
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

Why Does LeBron James Have to Keep Telling White People He Will Not Shut Up and Dribble? This Time, It's a Fellow Athlete

It’s been more than three years since Fox News white supremacy-wench Laura Ingraham went full KKK-Karen on her show and told NBA superstar LeBron James to stay away from the social and political commentary game and to just “shut up and dribble” for the game that he knows. James responded by not only refusing to…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 27, 2021
Clapback/Mailbag, News, Opinion

The Root's Clapback Mailbag: How to Be an Anti-Antiracist

Are you white? Are you tired of people pointing out your whiteness? Does all this “antiracism” talk ruffle your feathers? Well, we’ve got something for you! From the people who gave you, slavery, Jim Crow, racism and reverse racism, comes the newest product from Wypipo Laboratories… It’s Anti-Antiriacism!* Anti-Antiracism© is a bitter pill that provides…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

February 26, 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…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

February 19, 2021
Coronavirus, News

Arizona Republican Says 'American Citizens' Should be Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccine, Not 'Hispanics'

White conservatives are annoying. It’s not because they’re racist—at this point, we’re all used to racism and conservatism being the peanut butter and jelly of American politics—it’s that they’ve created a system for saying racist shit then claiming they were misunderstood because what they said wasn’t actually what they said. It’s not a system that…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 18, 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…

By

Zack Linly

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

Florida Teacher Under Investigation for Teaching That Slaves Weren’t Whipped and the N-Word Isn’t Racist

When will white people stop being too fragile for Black history? The Lee County School District in Florida is investigating an incident in which a high school teacher was recorded by a student giving a lecture in which he appears to be trying to convince impressionable young minds that slavery wasn’t all that cruel and…

By

Zack Linly

Published

February 17, 2021