Not only did they re-elect the racist white mayor, he won by a landslide against Ella Jones, one of Ferguson’s black councilwomen. This is what she had to say after the election:
“When you look at it, when the people had an opportunity to change what they said has been an oppressed system, they decided not to get out…

The situation benefits The Root either way.

If ‘white allies’ win they’ll have yet another opportunity to inveigh against a group that embodies the ‘wypipo’ stereotype. If a different entry wins they’ll have yet another opportunity to claim ‘wypipo’ have ruined the game, likely with a standalone article that gets more…

Come off that shit. The answer implicit in Maxim’s post is “Write about it.” Don’t be cute man. Aliya knew, deep down inside, that Kelly was a child rapist and she let that go and other young girls got raped. She feels guilty about it today, now that allegations are surfacing yet again. She should have told people…

He also received a videotape of Kelly raping a child while working for the Chicago Sun-Times, which he turned over to the police. Anyone who spent any time on the South Side around that time knows that you could buy Kelly tapes. People who knew didn’t care (enough), which is why Kelly never faced real punishment…

Why do you assume that black folks across the African continent must be homophobic because a white man told them to be so?

Will black voters turn out for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, whether Harris or someone else? The number of black voters in 2016 declined 7% from its high of 66.6% in 2012. That’s 765,000 fewer voters from an already relatively small demographic in the US--black voters constituted only 12% of all voters…

> Then again, it would have been yet another instance of black people picking up the slack for white people.

But black folks in those states didn’t pick up the slack, did they? Voter suppression is an onerous burden on many black folks, but many voters in places like Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who had the opportunity simply…