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Conservatives Attack Oprah for Being Rich, Black and Believing in the White Privilege 'Conspiracy Theory'
I’m calling it now: Oprah Winfrey is going to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Aside from becoming the first Black female billionaire, being the most successful talk show host in history and co-owning a successful nightclub with her husband Harpo, unbeknownst to many, Oprah recently angered conservatives and discovered the cure for white privilege: $2.6…
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If Black Twitter Was a Person
When we began curating this column on social media, we discovered that many people assume the cultural phenomenon called “Black Twitter” is an official network to which they can subscribe and check out all the culturally relevant information on the internet. It’s time that we clear up this misinformation and correct the erasure of an…
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Top 5 Ways to Erase Racism (According to White People)
The Root presents a dramatic reenactment of the entire history of America: In 1609, the Pilgrims arrived and this happened: Then, two weeks ago, a police officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck and black people were like: This is American history. In 1640, Virginia’s General Court created what many are calling the nation’s first “forever…
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Social Studies: If #AllLivesMatter…
#AllLivesMatter is trending on Twitter. The Root created this daily column as a space to curate and catalog blackness on social media. Sometimes it’s cool. Sometimes it’s funny. Today it is neither. The internet is a white space. Like America, social media reflects the thoughts, narratives and positions of a majority. Like America, black culture…
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Miss Michigan Loses Crown Because of Racist, Islamophobic Tweets
MAGA Twitter is enraged at officials of the oldest international beauty pageant for dethroning a beauty queen after racist and Islamophobic tweets surfaced on the Twitter account of a Trump supporter and reigning Miss Michigan. Organizers of the Miss World America pageant dismissed Michigan winner Kathy Zhu for what they called “offensive, insensitive and inappropriate”social…
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Starbucks Apologizes for Making Cops Leave Because Customer ‘Did Not Feel Safe’
On rare occasions, the cyclical nature of the universe creates a situation where yin meets yang, the sowers of havoc must reap the fruits of their nefarious harvest and the dispensers of bitter pills finally get a taste of their own medicine. Or, as the great educator, philosopher, and vegan animal rights activist Bugs Bunny…
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#NotMyAriel: White Twitter Is Big Mad About Disney Casting a Black Little Mermaid [Corrected]
As the nation celebrated the national holiday that symbolizes all men being created equal, a small minority of mistreated Americans cranked up the Caucasian outrage machine to address an egregious injustice that threatened the happiness and well-being of people everywhere. But this time, the righteous indignation was not about Nikes, coffeemakers or even reality. This…
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New York Times Hires, Fires Reporter for Using the N-Word, but She’s Not Racist … Just White
In an obvious display of one-upmanship during Black History Month, the New York Times erased the notable achievement of African-American icon Craig Jones from the movie Friday, who was famously fired on his day off, when the heralded newspaper abruptly fired white opinion writer Quinn Norton on the same day it hired her after tweets of…