whiteness
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Netflix’s Blackface Algorithm Is White Nonsense, Condensed
Before we begin, please allow me to plainly state that no one here is “outraged.” When talking about whiteness’ infinite blindspot as it relates to race in America, it is easy to paint valid criticism as hyperbolic indignation and tag it as an example of the pervasive “call-out culture,” thereby diminishing it. No, dear reader,…
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It Turns Out, Apartment Patty Has a Black Husband
As The Root was conducting our ongoing scientific research into how 911 became the technical support number for whiteness, our forensic investigative team, led by recent North Wakanda Higher Institute of Technology and Education (NoWHITE) Ph.D. graduate Dr. Shuri T’Keisha Harriot, uncovered some disturbing information about one of the recent standouts on the white women…
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Everything You've Been Told About Botham Jean is Wrong
Come. Let me show you something. Let me show you what it is to be black. To be forever erased from the realm of the living with a bang and a puff of smoke. To disappear silently into an empty void or, even worse, to have your death dissected in a desperate futile search for…
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This Is America: Save a White Drug Addict, Jail a Black One
Much has been said of the government responses to the opioid epidemic—specifically that it is leniently and sympathetically called an epidemic (I agree with that assessment), with sights set on healing and treatment. While necessary to combat the issue, the sympathy with which our nation views the current drug scourge is, frankly, frustrating. Why frustrating?…
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The White House Intern Class Looks Like the President’s Cabinet and His Dream for America
This year’s White House intern class is so white, each intern has one aunt who looks like Larry Bird. This intern class is so white that when discussing said aunt’s doppelgänger, they use the word “roundball.” The average credit score of this year’s White House intern class is 905. This year’s intern class is so…
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When the Irish Weren’t White
“[T]hey steal, they are cruel and bloody, full of revenge, and delighting in deadly execution, licentious, swearers and blasphemers, common ravishers of women, and murderers of children.” —Edmund Spencer “The emigrants who land at New York, whether they remain in that city or come on in the interior, are not merely ignorant and poor—which might…
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A Friend of Mine Asked Me to Explain Some White Shit to Her and Now I’m Offended
All my life I had to fight. That’s not true, but you can’t say “all my life” and NOT add “I had to fight” if you’re black and over a certain age. Shoutouts to The Color Purple and Miss Sophia. Hey, Oprah, boo. Anyway, all my life I’ve been black. Only recently have I become…
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The Model Minority Is Not a Myth: It’s Ajit Pai
In the week after liberals clutched their organically grown pearls that our president would (openly) call the first black republic a “shithole,” many immigrants jumped on Twitter to quip about the shithole countries they come from. But immigrants come from various kinds of shitholes, some more palatable to white America than others. Ajit Pai and…
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2017: The Whitest Year Ever
I already hear you disagreeing with the title of this story. I’m sure you are listing dates in your head. You’re probably saying something about the year when European settlers landed in America and injected the continent with the uniquely Caucasian concept of manifest destiny. You might even ask, “What about 1619, when the first…