“And every time you’re bothered you shoot someone? Thinking it’s ok to murder someone because you’re bothered *is* the problem. But some people are mentally and morally deficient and don’t understand that.”

Simple cause and effect. Shove an elderly person and get killed. If the killer was black, you wouldn’t have even heard about this story.  So let’s see, the young man popped fireworks at 1:30 AM without any consideration for anyone living within 1/4 mile radius of him. Why should anyone be bothered by his death if he…

Agree. Just like the 19 year old had an early morning college summer session class so he should’ve been sleeping instead of keeping all of his neighbors awake who were going to their jobs in the morning to pay taxes to support him and his family. Well, at least that’s one less mouth taxpayers have to feed, and his…

Oh, yes, those racist Texans. Of course, by that I mean the racist black, brown, and Democratic Texans. Do you have anything else to contribute other than your racist reactionary comment? The fact of the matter is Austin is an extremely liberal city and the Travis County District Attorney is a Democrat. So much for…

Oh, look, another self-hating white person. Sadly, you don’t realize that “stand your ground” laws also protect blacks and browns. Evidently you don’t comprehend that laws are colorless. Meanwhile, even when there’s evidence proving a black persons guilty of a crime, liberal district attorneys refuse to prosecute them…

Basically the black guy used his fireworks to disturb the peace and his neighbors, and then assaulted an elderly man by shoving him to the ground when he complained. And now an inconsiderate asshole is dead for his actions because his parents didn’t give him home education, so another black family grieves the loss of…

How awesome and upstanding of this black teenager with a strangely Latino surname shoving elderly men to the ground. One can only wonder what a fine upbringing this great Latino, oops, black boy had. Of course, it certainly must be a hate crime because the black boy is probably an illegal alien too, after all, Austin…

What you don’t like diversity? So you want to live among your own people instead of whites, but call whites racist for wanting to live among themselves. How don’t you see your hypocrisy?

Don’t listen to the writers racist nonsense. White women and college educated whites swung this vote and are the people deserving of thanks.

Yeah, and be sure to include an asterisk with fine print that reads white women and college educated whites swung this vote just like they did for Obama. Black voters did exactly what they do every election, they voted Democrat. Like with Obama, this election was won by white voters switching teams.

Quit licking butt. Don’t think them for something they didn’t do. The reality is blacks voted just like they always vote, it was white woman and college educated whites that swung this vote just like they did for Obama.

Nope, white college educated women did. Blacks always vote Democrat, the black vote rarely changes much, unlike the white vote which swung this election, like it did for Obama’s election too.

Please don’t underestimate the black media’s ability to make everything about themselves [like all Root articles] despite clear evidence white women got Jones elected. The article writer made assumptions from an inadequate CNN poll.

You people commenting in this thread and the article writer are absolutely wrong. The CNN clip didn’t even adequately break down voter results to make any assertion of why Jones won. The reality is Jones won for the same reason Obama won—white women.

No, not again. As I replied to Michael Harriot:

Umm, no. It’s racist articles like yours that continue to keep other races from taking The Root seriously. Just like with Obama, Jones won because of the white vote. Most blacks always vote Democrat, so their vote isn’t going to change anything unless more blacks actually vote. What swings an election is the number of…

Not only is slavery still prevalent in some nations, but parents are still selling their children into slavery, yet people complaining about historic slavery here in the US do nothing to eliminate slavery worldwide. It’s truly hypocritical, they may as well endorse it.

Any mouth-breather on social media who tries to use the strawman “the first slave owner in America wasn’t a black man” immediately invalidates any later attempt at a cogent argument he has, as far as I’m concerned, but that seems to be the second most popular false narrative that gets tossed around after “We SHOULDN’T …

The problem is you’re so much of a racist you fail to realize whites say Africans did it too not to justify slavery, but to emphasize how ignorant it is for blacks to only blame whites.