Clapback/Mailbag
Clapback/Mailbag
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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 āantiracismā talk ruffle your feathers? Well, weāve got something for you! From the people who gave you, slavery, Jim Crow, racism and reverse racism, comes the newest product from Wypipo Laboratories… Itās Anti-Antiriacism!* Anti-AntiracismĀ© is a bitter pill that provides…
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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…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Unseasoned Salt
I donāt care. Although I am curious by nature, I generally donāt care what people do or say. I relate to the rest of the world as if they were planning a gender reveal party, an orgy or a prayer meeting at an Episcopalian churchāIām not interested but do you. However, I find myself immensely…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: White History Months
Today, as Black History Month dawns upon us, let us not forget to celebrate the mediocre white people who flood our inboxes with caucasoidal ruminations about how wrong we are. Today we honor the factless frat boys. The clueless Caucasians. The stupid Sarahs and airheaded Amys. White mediocrity is the fuel that powers this country…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Richard Petty
Facts are evil. Nothing is as malicious and divisive to white people as when Black people start talking about actual reality. Because of the bulletproof nature of white privilege, they arenāt necessarily hurt by factual information. However, some white people feel attacked when a Black person brings up actual data or historical information. If someone…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Whitenotes
The Clapback Mailbag will often search through the emails, tweets, DMs and comments to find a common theme from our perturbed readers. Sometimes they are upset about one thing. Occasionally, we will receive a spate of responses that all have the same āwhataboutism.ā But not this week. This weekās letters feature a mishmash of all…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Nobody Knows the Trouble Whites See, Nobody Knows Their Sorrow
The Clapback Mailbag is a negro spiritual. White people love negro spirituals. They love the pain in the songs and the hope in the lyrics. If you ever want to steal shit from white people, just start singing a nineteenth-century slave song and I guarantee you they will close their eyes, lean back and enter…
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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 āreasonable manā theory. Basically, when a judge or jury is trying to determine whether or not someone is guilty of a crimeāespecially negligenceāthe judge or jury must ask themselves if a reasonable man would act this way. If the…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Empathy for the Devil
Please allow me to introduce myselfIām a bag of white hot hateIāve been around for four long yearsYou can read me every Friday I answer emails, DMs and tweetstrying to help you understand raceAnd when you call me the n-wordI donāt fly into a rage Pleased to meet youCan you guess who I am?Hereās a…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Because They Said So
āBecause I said so…ā Growing up in predominately Black skin, I heard that phrase a lot. My grandmother, aunts, uncles and friendsā parents used it all the time. But my mother was always careful to never use it. She had this weird thing about wanting us to know why we did things. My grandfather owned…