We had a census worker show up two days ago. She was Black. After a bit of confusion (I’d submitted online already), I just said,”Come in for a minute,” so we didn’t stand with the door open. Cooler inside. Her response?

Excellent stories transcend target demographics. Black Panther is our favorite Marvel movie, smart and profound, and its heroes speak to all of us. Boseman was the embodiment of a wise and loving king.

Perfect poetry

My (white conservative evangelical) childhood friend thinks BLM is some kind of communist group planning a takeover with ideologies undermining every Christian value this country holds dear. Not exaggerating. She also cited the mission statement for BLM as support for this belief. She’s so wrapped up in the agenda of…

My (white conservative evangelical) childhood friend thinks BLM is some kind of communist group planning a takeover with ideologies undermining every Christian value this country holds dear. Not exaggerating. She also cited the mission statement for BLM as support for this belief. She’s so wrapped up in the agenda of…

My (white conservative evangelical) childhood friend thinks BLM is some kind of communist group planning a takeover with ideologies undermining every Christian value this country holds dear. Not exaggerating. She also cited the mission statement for BLM as support for this belief. She’s so wrapped up in the agenda of…

My (white conservative evangelical) childhood friend thinks BLM is some kind of communist group planning a takeover with ideologies undermining every Christian value this country holds dear. Not exaggerating. She also cited the mission statement for BLM as support for this belief. She’s so wrapped up in the agenda of…

To make two separate fake accounts takes some effort. It’s premeditated. And then to put the worst kind of violent imagery out there against people who are not endangering you in any way is beyond the pale.

Thank you for writing this! I have wanted to write and ask you to talk about the notion of “goodness.” My husband, who grew up in a police state, a dear female friend, who is black, and I talk about this all the time. The two of them don’t give a crap about whether someone is “good,” consider it irrelevant, but I…

I’ve read African-descent women have higher rates of maternal mortality, after all variables are controlled. I understand they have not figured out why.

I am glad your hands are ok after the depraved ziptie torture. You need them to wield your mighty pen.

😭I wish I knew that before we moved here last year. (I’m from Chicago.) We live 10 minutes from Des Peres. I thought MO, esp St. Louis, would be a hybrid Midwest/soft South, maybe a little conservative but open enough to be tolerable. (Probably should have learned more history...) I’ve posted here before, the racial…

My husband grew up with empty shelves under a brutal communist regime. People also tend to be generous when they have less. The lack fosters empathy. They also are not hung up on stuff in general

This is fairly accurate. Though I’ll add there is an abundance of sentimentality in place of love and affection. This disguises certain voids in our character

Is it? We moved here last summer from Chicago and elsewhere. Our community, Maryland Heights, is really diverse (white, black,. Asian mostly). But the vibe I get here racially is unsettling. White people seem hostile in general (very subtly but I can’t put my finger on it) and black people seem very deferential…

If every one of us concerned and dismayed white people ripped up plaques and put up signs in unexpected places, like renting a billboard to thank an obscure (to white people) black American for some societal contribution that has gone unacknowledged, it could be very unsettling to the status quo and the mainstream.…

Standing up for marginalized citizens and compatriots is a best use of civil disobedience. This man did something perfectly in that spirit.

Would you say she’s between a rock and a hard place? As police chief, she has to uphold the law publicly, if she's to do her job properly, including vandalism, even if she secretly thinks what he did was beyond justified?

I agree. The best thing reading The Root has done is given me courage.

Yes, they should be preserved the way Nazi concentration camps have been preserved. If you burn them, you only help white people to never remember or even care to know.