The Root with the hard-hitting journalism of going after Ellie Kemper and Lin-Manuel Miranda for racism.

I was born here, but My family came from Cuba in the 60's. Though no police officer is ever going to look at me and think I’m white, neither would I be mistaken for being Black, and do not identify as Afro-Latino—in fact, outside of South Florida, I’m identified as Middle Eastern as often (or moreso,) than Latino.…

“For centuries darker-skinned Afro-Latinx people have been erased from Latinidad, but we will be forgotten no more. We are tired of being maids and background dancers and will continue to push back until we are seen and heard. Indeed, Lin Manuel Miranda ‘fell short.’”

When one apologizes, one is not entitled to forgiveness or absolution.

Just know that during Jim Crow, Democrats were Republicans and Republicans were Democrats. Confused?

I’m starting to get Michigan and Mississippi confused.

Well, we do need more organ donors

“Sorry I got caught trying to protect my daughter from a physically abusive partner?” The fuck are you on about?

Meth, not even once.

I again implore the makers of tasers to remove the handgrip. There is not enough recoil to require it nor range to make a precision two-handed aim.

Sure, let’s take this explanation completely at face value: in the heat of the moment, if a cop is carrying both a Taser and a gun, there is always the possibility that even with the best of intentions, despite all their training and the physical differences between Tasers and guns, they will grab the gun and fire it…

Honestly, I like the anti-gossip approach. People shouldn’t give up their privacy just because they sing or act or look good in a swimsuit, or because of who their parents were. If somebody’s abusive or a criminal, okay, that’s valid news, but if it’s just “she’s put on weight” or “he broke up with his girlfriend,”…

Fuck that, I want Warner Bros. to give Snyder $70 million every year to make a Snyder cut of any movie he chooses.  Tom & Jerry: The Snyder Cut.  The Meg: The Snyder Cut.  Let’s burn these piles of money to the ground.

Zach Snyder’s entire career can be summed up like this:

This writer is jealous of their traffic and clicks.

Does this whole article come off as annoyed that benign stuff as opposed to dirt is being reported? Celebrities have money, but are also just people. Maybe it’s ok not to tear them apart always. Sometimes sure when they start a church or try to convince people to buy diarrhea tea go for it.

The softness of these new gossip accounts may be a backlash to the cruel gossip industry that preceded it

Snyder’s real problem is he fundamentally doesn’t understand the characters or the subject matter in his films. He didn’t understand the point of Rorschach (not a hero) or the watchmen (a story expressly against the idea of heroes). He doesn’t understand Superman (the pure ideal), Batman (a character who wants…

Growing up, DC heroes always seemed closer to pure heroes than, say, the X-Men who always came off as real people with real problems/dramas compounded by superpowers. Superman as the ideal of courage and self-sacrifice for the good of humanity, Batman as the silent avenger working behind the scenes to stop crime,…