“What’s it like being dumb?”

My favorite part of The Root is the Clapback Mailbag. It is always entertaining because Mr. Harriot is the best damn writer employed here and he always puts those pale racists in their place!

“Hey man, I'm from Idaho." Mailbag pundit, need you say more?

Should white people today feel bad about the suffering Black people endured as slaves for 400 years? Well, yes, all people should feel bad about anybody suffering now or in the past. (I’m pretty sure Black people already feel bad about the suffering their ancestors endured.)

I am smart. Michael Harriot is MUCH smarter. I wouldn’t debate Michael Harriot with the expectation of anything other than being abjectly humiliated by just how much better he is at explaining ideas, using language creatively, spinning narratives that grab attention, and laying rhetorical traps.

The answer to both, I believe, is ignorance.

Regardless of whether she graduated or indeed if she even attended, MTG is the biggest shit stain on UGA’s heel.

The cumulative guilt and shame of five centuries of industrial scale dehumanization produces two primary byproducts. Fear and (self)loathing.

In 1996, the University of Georgia was on the quarter system.

I deal with clinically diagnosed schizophrenic and psychotic people (often both) in my job in mental health all the time. They're often nicer and more rational than this.

Don’t white people have hundreds of groups formed with the goals and the intent of taking black people out?

because they’re losing their country

Look, I get all these people are racist idiots. What I don’t get is why basic reading comprehension is so, so fucking hard for them.

[Looks suspiciously both ways.]

The most deluded motherfuckers are always the ones who want to “debate”

It’s a service to humanity Michael is performing.

I don’t know how you deal with these schizophrenic psychos every week.

And that pretty much sums up what we see in the clapback mailbag from whiteness. I can’t think of many other ways to say it much simpler than that.

Protesting like good white people?

Just as a matter of historical accuracy, while hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the United States back in 1955, azithromycin wasn’t formulated until 1982 or marketed as Zithromax until 1992.