The Ashley’s are the front-line gentrifiers, callous and ignorant with nothing to loose...disposable and deplorable. We really should be concerning ourselves with “those people” calling the shots.

Spot on Damon! The companion piece to this article should be about Reparations...white folks other - “I’ll never agree too”!

Wait til you get to the anger stage!

“The overwhelmingly accepted idea of American exceptionalism is an unquenchable fantasy that lives in the Caucasian consciousness in the same way that the African paradise occupies the hearts and minds of the descendants of this country’s stolen human chattel.”

Hello Ms. Savali. My comment is off-topic but I was compelled to say Hello! I stopped visiting TheRoot last year after the format change. You were my favorite author then, I liked Yesha too but I don’t think she liked me, inspite of me flattering her as my favorite, (wink/wink). Your articles always resonated with me,…

Wow! Iexpected some Roseanne or Shaq rendition of this anthem performance. All over the internet, I saw and read beaucoup negative articles. Well, I just now listened and it was AWESOME! One of the best renditions I’ve listened to. Powerful...sultry, smokey and sexy! I enjoyed her pacing and hitting all the high…

Wow...you have internet access in prison?

At the end of the day, it will always be about Barack H. Obama being elected President of these here United States! Trump’s ascension is directly correlated to de-legitimizing a Black Man being elected to the highest office, ever, in these here United States...it plainly contradicts, everything, that white supremacy…

Maggot Brain!

Write On Michael...keep up the great work!