This reminds me of the recent shooting of Markeis McGlockton. White guy with a gun, goes and initiates a confrontation, and then shoots an unarmed black person out of “fear for his life.” If these college kids hadn’t been smart enough to keep cool heads and gave this coward the opportunity he was looking for, I’m sure…

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Kiratiana, Thank you for your well written and news worthy article. I am so sorry that another star and warrior has been assassinated.

I can’t possibly see how they could have conducted a even basic investigation in that amount of time. It certainly looks like the police force doesn’t want to ask too many questions in case it gets an answer that leads back to some of their own...

I’d be surprised if American Cable News channels covered this at all. It’s a lot cheaper to just have pundits yelling at each other 24/7.

Notice that we do not have even CNN reporting on this nor any major networks. A protest in a nation as large as Brazil and a Black issue should be covered. To bad that we no longer have TVOne. We need a Black news network.

Am I reading right? She was assassinated on Wednesday night and buried less than 24 hours later? Is there cultural or religious context I am missing that would explain this? Otherwise, I can’t possibly see how they could have conducted a even basic investigation in that amount of time. It certainly looks like the…

I mean, they named it Lynchburg.

If you want to see it that way, sure. But as it has been said here on The Root by Stephen Crockett, the Patriots were the team rooted for by racists and have a quarterback that is a Trump supporter. They’re “racist-adjacent” or racist-related, and that’s reason enough to want to destroy them.

I don’t think the point of making the allegory was to “solve racism” or to establish any sort of superiority. I think the point was simply for us to get a win for a change.

It depends on your measuring stick. If the measure is hate crimes annually, Columbus, Ohio actually wins the title of most racist city. If the measure is anti-black social media posts, then Baltimore is the most racist. If it’s anti-hispanic social media posts then it’s Bakersfield, CA (in fact, California has all the…

The Boston Globe reports that Che said he received a lot of angry messages on social media after making the statement, including one from a woman who was particularly upset. But rather than explaining himself, Che said, he responded with this: “Talk to your closest black friend and ask them to explain it to you.”…

From the original article:

This is reminiscent of the argument over affirmative action. They want “diversity”, to feel as if we’re really making these great strides in racial equality; but, at the end of the day they fear that minorities will come in and be better than them. It’s unfortunate that these young minds can’t even comprehend how…

The Jim Brown one is the only one that really surprised me.

He’s disrespecting the office so hard that he had to reach back and give Obama shit (after the latter ensured peaceful transition!). Where was this respect talk when people talked shit about Obama left and right? Obama had to let criticism and animosity roll off of him his own damn self.

Exactly. And here’s the thing. Stupid Steve confuses respecting the office with respecting the man IN the office. Two different things. How has anyone disrespected the office of president by criticizing the Trumpanzee? In fact, the only person capable and actively disrespecting the office of president is Dumb Donald…

Why the hell should we respect the president, much less this country, that doesn’t have an ounce of respect for us? Respect has to be earned, and very few people in this nation’s history have actually done the work to rightfully gain ours. We don’t owe Trump shit, and we don’t owe America shit. Hell, they both owe us.…

Hey Steve, how’s your work going with 45 on rebuilding inner cities? Are you and Kanye, Jim Brown, Omarosa, and Ben getting things done? Just wondering, you dumbshit...