Race Matters
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Mookie Betts Details MLB's Failures to Address Social Injustice, Become More Inclusive: They 'Did Not Do a Good Job'
I sure as hell ain’t the only Black person who works at The Root, but I’ve definitely had more of my fair share of being the only one in the room throughout the course of my life. So I can only imagine what MLB superstar Mookie Betts goes through every single day while playing baseball—one…
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Hey Cherokee County Sheriff Captain Jay Baker: Is This You?
Yo, believe me when I tell you: WHITE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING AMAZING. For those of you who have been working all day and may just be getting caught up, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long of Woodstock, Georgia, allegedly went on a shooting spree in the Atlanta area that left a total of eight people dead—six of…
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Watch Whiteness Work: A White Man Kills 6 Asian Women, and a White Cop Says He 'Had a Bad Day'
It’s already been a heartbreaking and devastatingly unrelenting year of blatant, dehumanizing and violent acts of racism. It’s echoed four years of ever-escalating incidents in the same vein, not to mention centuries of a state of rotten affairs that is as American as apple pie. I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted and completely…
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‘White Power’ Graffiti Found at a California Middle School
Hot take: Racists are the absolute worst. Yeah, I said it! The latest instance of racists being the absolute worst takes us to California, where racist graffiti was found at a middle school. A middle school. I’m telling you, they’re the worst. According to SF Gate, an Asian-American parent was dropping off their child for…
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High School Basketball Announcer Who Hurled N-Word at Players and Blamed Diabetes is All White People Who Hate Athletes Who Kneel
By now, many of you have heard about the high school basketball game announcer in Oklahoma who definitely wishes Klan-sketball was a thing. A lot of people are upset at 44-year-old Matt Rowan for referring to members of the Norman High School girls basketball team who kneeled during the national anthem as “fucking niggers,” but…
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Anti-Chocolate Ice Cream Man Is the First to Be Sued Under New York Law Against Filing a False ‘Race Based’ Police Report
Last summer, a group of Black peaceful protesters gathered outside an ice cream shop in upstate New York to protest its owner, David Elmendorf, for allegedly sending a series of racist texts and claiming he wouldn’t hire a Black person at the shop. Elmendorf responded by calling the police, claiming they threatened to shoot him.…