Clapback/Mailbag

“Sucker Emails”A song by Michael Harriot Two years ago, some co-workers of mineAsked me to clap back at trolls online.So we came up with a plan to respond to hateThe plan was dope, and it went this way:The Root took the comments emails and tweetsAnd put them in a bag until the end of the…

Well, hello there! The big homie Michael Harriot is off doing Michael Harriot things, so he’s tagged me in to helm this week’s edition of the Clapback Mailbag. You’re welcome in advance. As someone who’s spent the past three or so years on the receiving end of death threats, vitriol and all manner of foolishness…

Many of the emails, comments, tweets and direct messages that make it into the weekly Clapback Mailbag are from well-meaning people who genuinely have questions or need advice. In fact, those emails, tweets, direct messages and comments have prompted some of the best clapbacks. Here are the Top 4 moments in the history of the…

As we continue our stroll down memory lane listing the greatest moments in the history of the Clapback Mailbag, I thought that we should focus today on how the writers at The Root have changed the world. According to our readers, not only have we increased racism by talking about racism, we also made Hillary…

For the next few weeks, we will select our favorite responses from the nearly 400 emails, tweets, DMs and comments we have featured in the weekly Clapback mailbag. We have enlisted a panel of experts to rank our top 10, but if there is one that you remember in particular, please list it in the…

Every Friday, The Root takes the best (or worst) emails, comments, tweets and messages from our readers and features them in our Clapback Mailbag. Because so many people have asked how they could create a homemade version of the mailbag, we decided to share the original recipe* that we stole from one of my childhood…

When professor Henry Louis Gates founded The Root 11 years ago, he probably had no idea that its creation would one day become the internet’s number one source for black news (it’s not bragging if it’s true). He probably assumed he and his team were creating an outlet to give voice to a population that…

Since yesterday was America’s birthday, let’s begin the Clapback Mailbag with a patriotic song: O brutal fools, those racist whites, with grammar that’s a shameFor mountains of hate mail we receive, filled with white tears of painA mailbag’s here! A mailbag’s here! Our readers love when weClapback at all the racist trolls who email, DM…

 Remember the Clapback day, to keep it holy. Five days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the Friday is the Clapback Day of the Root, thy website. In it, though shalt respond to the emails tweets and DMs ye received. All week, wypipo raised all holy hell. And on Fridays, we shalt…