Opinion
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Blackface Is a Choice: Friends Praise SC Bank Executive For MAGA Kanye Costume
A South Carolina bank executive and business leader recently heralded for his innovation in the field of finance is now receiving even more accolades for his work in the minstrel ministry after he donned blackface to go to a Halloween party dressed as Trump supporter, Kanye West. Banker Bryan Lenertz began his October being praised…
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10 Ways To Defeat Hate And Terror With Love
Even for a 2018 filled with tragedy and terror, last week was particularly brutal. There were the assassination attempts on prominent Democrats and critics of the president. A white man shot and killed two black people at a grocery store in Kentucky. That man tried to enter a black church first, but the doors, fortunately,…
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What Did You Think Would Happen?
Maybe the hardest I’ve ever laughed and the hardest I’ve ever been punched happened on the same day for the same reason. I don’t even remember what my older cousin was trying to cook, but I know it involved toasting four pieces of bread. Ever the impatient one, Reggie loomed over the toaster, wondering what…
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Maybe We Actually Need Troops at the Border … of Florida
First of all, all this time we were out here protesting Confederate monuments, in the two thousand eighteenth year of our Lord and savior Simone Biles, there was a whole-ass town named Plantation? I really hope that the town is zero percent black. Next, you’ll be telling me that there’s a boutique bed and breakfast resort…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: A Mood
This week, instead of answering each letter individually, I shall increase the level of difficulty by answering all the letters with one universal, overarching clapback. You see, every Friday around 4 a.m., before I even wake up, I begin receiving messages asking what’s taking the mailbag so long. Here’s your answer: I HAVE TO WRITE…
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Iowa Teacher Under Investigation For Wearing Blackface to Halloween Party
It’s almost Halloween, the time of year when sadists pretend that candy corn is not Satan’s butt plug and masochists terrorize their taste buds with pumpkin flavors, which is essentially sweet potatoes with low self-esteem. It is also the season when white people think it would be cute to cover their faces in shoe polish…
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Is There a Support Group for People Who Hurt Themselves Trying to Do the Shoot Dance? (Asking for a Friend)
There’s this guy I know. His name is Famen Hung. We hoop together a few times a week. And despite being 39—and despite the fact that, the last time he went to LA Fitness, one of the young dudes on the court greeted him with “What’s good, O.G.?” (AND IT WAS MEANT TO BE A…
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Abrams’ Flag-Burning Incident: That’s What They Force You to Do as a Black Person in the South
In 1992, when Stacey Abrams was in college, she participated in a protest where there was a burning of a Georgia state flag that had been redesigned in 1956 specifically to incorporate the Confederate battle flag emblem in it, in a clear attempt to make a statement against the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. That history…
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Video: Librarian Calls Cops on Student for Brazen Attempt at #StudyingWhileBlack [Updated]
Updated: 10/24/2018, 8:59 a.m. ET: The internet has identified the library desk clerk who called the Catholic University campus police as Brittany McNurlin, a law student who also works with the public defender’s office. McNurlin enjoys hobbies such as dialing 911, cosplaying as a bouncer and insisting she is not a racist. Her future goals…