Excellent piece. I’m not a professional editor (although I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once), but please allow me one piece of editorial advice:

Stop & Frisk was created as pretext to stop and arrest young black and latino men. That’s was always it’s purpose. And this not me saying so. This is straight from the mouth of the beast itself.

Just a reminder that during all this the percentage of whites stopped hovered between 9% to 12% while black people were over 50% of those stopped. This is still an insanely biased problem and will not go away without drastic changes.

Yeah, and his lack of political experience is a huge criticism of him, at least from me. I know a lot of his base consider his position as a “political outsider” to be a big plus, but I don’t think anyone should be sitting in the oval office with little to no national political experience. And if they do ,they better…

But her 30th birthday will be in 2019, so while 2019 + 6 = 2025, the correct formula is either 2018 + 6 = 2024, or 2019 + 5 = 2024.

1989 + 35 = 2024, not 2025.

“Watters offered kudos to King for her exclusive interview with Kelly, but in doing so, mistook her for NBC’s Robin Roberts.”

She’s not too young for 2024, just 2020.

In that case it is my duty as a patriotic and freedom loving American to buy as many boxes of thin mints as the local troop can sell me.
(My commitment to progressive politics and affection for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez does not extend to paying money for those coconut abominations though.)

Jessica Chastain is an actor. Jane Chastain is a stupid columnist who hates the Girl Scouts.

*Buys 10 more boxes of thin mints*

I love y’all at TheRoot, but on this i’ll always disagree. I find this to be such a sad & disturbing article. Is that the kind of language/word we should be handing down to future generations? Do we really believe nigga scrubs nigger of its inherent bloody history & violence? If we truly love our ancestors and the…

I’m 44, Black and me all day long. I write fiction and guess what- I don’t use the N word. I don’t even have to think about it because that word is ashes in my mouth, it is death and that isn’t what I’m about.

Im white so admittedly my opinion on the matter doesn’t mean shit. I can see why that would be a big issue for you. As a karaoke fanatic I see the “ I’m just rapping the lyrics” justification all the time. There are plenty of songs I love that have that word. It’s really not that hard not to drop that word. It’s not…

The problem with comparing that word to “fuck” is that everyone can say “fuck,” and the meaning doesn’t change based solely on who is speaking. I am very torn about the n-word being slung around on tv so much now because I can’t stand to hear non-Black people saying it. It’s now become such a part of popular culture…

I think you’re right about everything except this particular interview. Because in this particular interview, we’re all laughing at this stupid motherfucker for trying to cry his way outta this shit. And applauding Gayle for not giving him any applause for his acting performance.

At the age of ten in fifth grade a kid called me the magic word. I said what did you say and in his smug whiteness he said “you heard me, boy.” I reached back and punched him in the nose breaking it in the process. The whiny bitch went to the nurse and I for my troubles was sent to the principal’s office. After…

How much does it cost? Because I don’t mind buying it and printing one copy per day. Which I use to wipe my ass.

“It’s easy enough to laugh at a story like this”

Do you understand that the school to prison pipeline starts by criminalizing the behavior of black students in a way that isn’t experienced by white students?