This passage struck me as I read a letter from Bayard Rustin last night...

Reading Clapback Mailbag is the schadenfreude I need every Friday. Seeing how these racists twist themselves in knots trying to prove the unprovable is like watching a kid give a speech about the benefits of pharmaceuticals after watching a 30 second infomercial for Cialis. Not a damn thing is going to make sense.…

This has me shook, Michael. It's truly a privilege to read your articles.  Damn, I didn't expect to cry just after getting out of bed.  I said in a comment the other day that Black Americans are a gift from God, and you and The Root team prove it every.single.day.

My husband and I moved back to my hometown in TN last year. We found our dream home in a blue collar, mixed-race neighborhood right in the middle of town (pop. 18000). Our family asked, “Are you sure you want to live in THAT neighborhood?” I was furious about their thinly veiled racism and their assumptions that we…

I will forever be indebted to you, Michael. September 3, 2020 will live in infamy as the day I discovered IceJJFish and his BAAAEEEEE (sing it like a screech owl)!

One minor flaw in this, Jay. Serena isn’t the greatest female tennis player. She’s The Greatest Tennis Player of All Time, fullstop. Not Roger. Not Rafa. Not Sampras. Not Laver. And sure-as-fuck not Margaret Court. Serena Williams is a goddess, The Queen of the Court! I had to wait 20 years to finally see her play in…

Trying to shit on The Queen gets an immediate cancelling from me. I haven’t acknowledged Whitlock’s existence since then...until today after reading this. Every single time I’ve declared my love for ReRe (if this White boy wasn’t queer, he’d have found a way to marry her) to my White family or friends, I’ve heard,…

This is a piece of beautiful writing, a deepest expression of the soul, Michael. Thank you for this. I have been reading Howard Thurman’s “Deep Is the Hunger” and this is very much as poignant as some of his best essays. Thank you for continuing to believe in love when so many think it’s naive. Thank you for knowing…