“The reasons are complex and well-known: higher incarceration rates for black Americans, with prospective job applicants with records less desired by employers, as well as ongoing de facto segregation when it comes to blacks often being regulated to neighborhoods with poorer educational opportunities and housing and…

“...and to the surprise of near everyone, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...”

Of course, if the cops hadn’t entered the house and the argument had turned violent, here’s what Root commenters would be saying:

If it makes you feel any better, I once saw a white guy pick up a baby that a black person dropped. So I guess you can feel proud about that and call it a wash. But all kidding aside...

“...Nat Turner. The revolutionary, or murderer, depending on one’s point of view...”

“‘Murcia.”

Oh. You mean the sort of white person who only exists in black people’s imagination. White people asking to speak to the sheriff’s manager...yeah, that’s not a thing.

I have a saying, too. It goes like this: “Umm...what?”

“First, I’d like to explain why blacks glorify this Nipsey. However, the Colored Organization for Only Knowing One Universal Thought (COOKOUT) hasn’t issued their official declaration on Nipsey, so I can only speak for myself”

“Billy Preston, the fifth Beatle.”

I applaud the guy with the dumb hairdo for outing the guy with the dumb nickname. Cheating in our community is practically institutionalized. So many brothers act like cheating is normal. They act like the only thing bad about cheating is getting caught. Dealing with infidelity and misogyny in our community should be…

“Louis Farrakhan has yet to publicly comment.”

I believe in letting all people speak their minds, no matter how detestable their views are, so I don’t believe in banning anybody. However, if they’re going to ban those other people, then it’s definitely fair, in the sense that it’s consistent, to also ban Farrakhan. He’s definitely worse than Milo. If you hear…

There is no way that thing tastes good. She’s nasty. My friend went down on Cardi B once. He said that when he was done, he licked his dog’s ass just to get the taste out of his mouth.

“...cleverly dubbed ‘Sephora Sandy’...”

“I’d rather ingest the weak-ass bacteria and get a mild illness...”

Fleetwood Mac. “Tusk.” 1979.

“Most seem to be arguing that a good upstanding white man like Hapwood here wouldn’t just kill a man in front of his wife and children (somehow ignoring the fact that he did just that).”

“people often ignore comments longer than a few sentences”

What a weird headline. “Is it an article about people fighting over an estate,” I wondered, “or is it an article about the incidence of high blood pressure in our community?” It turns out it’s both. Weird. It’s like if a centaur became an article. In fact, that’s what I’m going to call these from now on: centaur…