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For Black People, Wednesday Was Just Another Day in America
There must be a certain stomach-churning consternation that comes with watching a house made of privilege disintegrate like a sandcastle at high tide. To watch the waves that keep you afloat wash over the moat that protects you. To discover that the gleaming beacon of liberty and freedom was never anything but a tiki torch.…
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To Georgia, and Black People, Who Are One and the Same
Real quick: I heard them on the phone talking about you, disparaging your integrity. I would have at least told them to keep my peopleâs name out of their mouths, but I imagine thatâs how white boys talk in private. In my head, theyâre always talking about titties, yelling the n-word or concocting a nefarious…
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Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin Hospitalized With COVID-19
Five days after announcing that he tested positive for the coronavirus, Birmingham, Ala., Mayor Randall Woodfin has been hospitalized with COVID-19 complications. The announcement came just days after Woodfin lost his grandmother to the disease. âCOVID-19 has made its way to my doorstep,â wrote Woodfin in a Wednesday tweet revealing that he was suffering from…
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'I Feel Like I'm Finna Die': Why Everyone in Alabama's Prison System Has a Death Sentence [Updated]
For a portion of his 22 years, Bernard Jemison has been incarcerated at Kilby Correctional Facility, a maximum-security penitentiary located just outside of Montgomery, Ala. According to Alabama Department of Corrections documents reviewed by The Root, in September, 1031 men were housed in a prison designed to hold 440 men, an occupancy rate of 234…
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Black Paranoia and the COVID Vaccine, Explained
Hey, Racist Baby! How are you doing? I havenât seen you in a while. What does that even mean, you little baby bigot? Wait…are you trying to say âAs-Salaam-Alaikum?â Stop it, my little tyke nationalist. Youâre going too far. Please donât tell me your racist parents have turned you into an anti-masker. Well. my little…
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Newly Elected Black Santa Could Leave Millions Giftless
The newly elected Black CEO in charge of the charity startup founded in a small Bethlehem manger before moving to its sprawling North Pole headquarters has issued a slate of groundbreaking policies that could result in a very unmerry Christmas for millions of children around the globe. Although many people stupidly assume one person has…
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10 Things You Should Buy With Your COVID Check
Late yesterday evening, Congress passed a wide-ranging relief bill that will send $600 to every taxpayer making less than $75,000. I havenât done the math but, that probably only leaves out Bill Gates, Oprah and maybe BeyoncĂ©. Thankfully, the kind folks in the federal legislature have graciously doled out enough money to sustain unemployed broke-asses…
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Locked Up a Broad: COVID Karen Appeals to Trump After Coronavirus Incarceration In Caymans
In the latest example of âthe manâ keeping a good Caucasian woman down, the family of an 18-year-old Georgia woman has asked the Trump administration to intervene in her unusually fair jail sentence for flouting COVID-19 protocols in the Cayman Islands. Due in part to strict regulations (pdf) requiring all visitors to undergo testing, followed…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: The Unreasonable Black Man
I believe most people are reasonable. In fact, there is an objective legal test called the âreasonable manâ theory. Basically, when a judge or jury is trying to determine whether or not someone is guilty of a crimeâespecially negligenceâthe judge or jury must ask themselves if a reasonable man would act this way. If the…
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Joe Biden Wouldn't be the Next President If Not for 'Defund the Police'
In the beginning, God took six days to create the Earth, all of the animals and humans. Adam and Eve, the original Michelle and Barack, were living the life, running around butt-naked until Lucifer, an incredibly talented choir director, ruined everything by convincing Eve to serve Adam a tainted fruit salad. Thatâs why people die.…
