You managed to end an insightful article with perhaps the most fantastically powerful and concise rebuttal to West’s philosophy that I’ve come across. Well done! I wonder how someone like Dr. West would respond to a paragraph like the one that opens with “Ask the mothers and fathers of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown…

I certainly can’t speak for every white man, but I’ve been watching it on replay all evening and it brings a smile to my face every time.

Thank you for covering this, Michael. It seems clear that this system is simply broken. We shouldn’t be crowd-funding legal defense in this (or any other) case. If “money is the biggest barrier to justice in America’s criminal-justice system”, then America’s criminal justice system needs to be fixed, because it is no…

I got that - the random chance of connecting to history (or discovering a new history formed in the last 60 years) is part of what got me hooked on these posts — I’ve not only re-read this series but have been eagerly checking for updates to see what you discovered next. What I was wondering, specifically, is if you…

Has #TheRootTrip documented all of the businesses from the 1957 Green Book that you tried to locate or just a select few that made for interesting posts? (trying to get a feel for the Green Acres Cafe being the first of... how many?)