I just can’t with this shit anymore. I majored in history, with a focus on the Civil War and its causes. Disingenuous bullshit about slavery just drives me nuts. Conservatives want Confederate flags and statues everywhere to “remember history,” but the second you start talking about the history of slavery, they…

Thank you for articulating what my brain could only react to with ‘Seriously?’

By the time the Declaration of Independence was signed slavery had been happening in this country for over 150 years. It would continue for over a century through the Civil War. The next century would see Jim Crow, segregation, the KKK, the Civil Rights movement, and more. Even if you were to believe that racism in…

These are white men who desperately want to believe that the powerful group they are associated with - White America - achieved its success all on its own and only through legitimate means. They want, desperately, to downplay the significance of the evil brutality against an entire race of people, of colonialism and…

See, but the Confederate statues remind people about the civil war and how we ‘eliminated’ slavery.

How about artisinial craft bleach, lovingly made in small batches by big blokes with beards, flavoured with traces of bergamot, fennel and a big bunch of keys, carefully aged in a galvanised bucket under the sink?

I lived in Atlanta for a bit and worked with a car dealership heiress whose family owned and lived on a plantation. When the 8-person over-the-cubicle discussion rang out about how beautiful it must be...I asked if she heard the screams and moans from the cemetery. She actually got up to come confront me saying her…

My mom had sort of the opposite. She tells a story about how she said, “Well, no one can be worse than Nixon!” and she got Reagan. Then she said, “no one can be worse than Reagan!” and she got W. Then she said, “no one can be worse than W.!” and she got Trump. I told her to please stop saying that as the next person wi…

Polys want that cracker

The Venn diagram of incels and mass shooters:

You shouldn’t need to have a black child to find racism offensive.

‘Generous welfare state’. That’s the best laugh I’ve had all day. As a poor, chronically ill person with mental health problems taking more medications than I can count, I think I’d be dead in record time if I lived in America where health ‘care’ is a billion dollar racket and dependent on ability to pay.…

“Hispanic invasion of Texas”

The Root is...not in the business of transforming racists into social justice warriors or changing hearts and minds in hopes of reversing white supremacy. Words cannot do that.

I bet your name wears a kufi, refers to pork as “swine” and fucks heavyset white girls on the low. I bet your real name is something like Parker Willoughby.

White guy here RE: #7. I have an beautiful adopted black daughter. My wife and I are white bread white (I mean she can dance her ass off but I can’t clap on rythem so really it cancels out.)

White Supremacy is, in its simplest terms, a weapon. It is brandished and wielded for the sole purpose assuaging fear by way of an almost sociopathic, dehumanizing brand of violence. The rub is that despite the fact that it is obviously a jagged club, and even though a casual inspection belies the fact that it is…

We don’t do the kind of trade we could do with - what some people say is Great Britain, and some people remember - a word you don’t hear too much is England, which is a piece of it.

Are we 100% sure that’s not just a Darrell Hammond impersonation of a drunk British person?

Contrary to Gaetz’s view, I’d suggest it’s actually more like returning to your hotel room full of cheap whisky and ill-earned bravado, passing out fully dressed, then waking at midday with an ice pick stabbing away behind your eye, wet trousers and a crippling sense of shame... only to find the complimentary…