Opinion
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Megyn Kelly Is A Professional White Woman
“Who here is white?” asked Miss Sumpter, the 3rd-grade social studies teacher at Millbrooks Elementary School in Champaign, Ill., to her students while conducting a mock census. Each hand in the all-white classroom limped up, confirming their whiteness, though most of the students were just slightly confused by Miss Sumpter’s question. Well, each hand except…
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I Just Got 5 Pounds of Candy Corn in the Mail From Amazon Because Candy Corn Is Delicious
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on October 22, 2018. I just got a notification on my phone that Amazon delivered one of the three packages I have coming to me from my latest order, and the package delivered today contains the thing that is going to make this fall season all the more…
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Y’all Nasty: CDC Confirms People Aren’t Washing Their Hands After Using the Bathroom
It’s cold and flu season, which means entire offices are being taken down by the germs and bugs that people pass around because they are not exercising even the most basic office and germ prevention etiquette. I’m talking about you, people who go into the restroom, use it, then walk out without washing your hands.…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Killing Me Softly
Today’s mailbag is the longest we’ve ever published. But it all relates to one subject: The tone and tenor of The Root’s content. So let us begin. This first series of tweets relate to the fact that writers at The Root often use nicknames for white women and men who call the police on black…
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What We Really Learned from the Cop Who Taught an 11-Year-Old Black Boy With a BB Gun ‘A Lesson’
It’s a sorry state of affairs when mainstream media outlets are praising public servants for performing their jobs adequately, but that’s apparently where we are in 2018. On Wednesday, CNN published an article titled, “Instead of firing at an 11-year-old with a bb gun, an Ohio officer teaches him a lesson.” The piece focuses on…
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Dear Drivers Who Veer Left to Turn Right, I Hate You. WTF Is Wrong With You?
This goes out to you and you — you know who you are, so stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re driving along a thoroughfare, minding your own business. Maybe you’re even listening to your favorite true-crime podcast as you venture into work, traffic court, or to that Brazilian wax appointment you’ve been putting…
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A Requiem for ‘White Women,’ Which the National Review Says Is a ‘Disparaging Term’
On Sunday, Oct. 14, Kyle Smith, the National Review’s critic-at-large, penned an opinion column alerting the magazine’s conservative readership of a disturbing new trend. Smith’s article lamented the fact that Democrats and people on “the left,” including this writer, are now slandering a sacrosanct segment of American society with an insidious, previously unknown racial slur:…
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When White Women Attack: White Woman Calls Cops on Black Boy for Sexual Assault, Clash of the Beckys Ensues
Channeling the ghost of Carolyn Bryant Donham (false accuser of Emmett Till), a now-viral Facebook video caught an angry woman calling the police to report that a frightened young black boy had dared to inadvertently brush up against her. “A white lady calling the cops on a black kid, I get it,” begins the four-minute…
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The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Celebrity Edition
Some mailbags are different. Every Friday, we respond to questions and criticisms about the articles that appeared on The Root during the week. But each mailbag is unique. Sometimes the mailbag just wants to have an honest and open discussion without lobbing baseless accusations around. In fact, these emails came from all kinds of people’s…
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Dispatch From a Black Man in Trumpland: Kanye’s Oval Office ‘Minstrel Show’ Ain’t Only About Him
Speaking Thursday on CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Don Lemon took it there, calling Kanye West’s performance in the White House yesterday a “minstrel show.” “Him in front of all of these white people, mostly white people, embarrassing himself and embarrassing Americans, but mostly African-Americans,” Lemon said. Others have noted Kanye’s much-discussed mental health struggles…