Yeah, also completely guilty. In my (feeble) defense, I will impose myself on anyone with a dog, regardless of race, gender, or state of consciousness. I actually talk to the dog in such situations, and am somewhat surprised when the human it’s with answers me. I’m a fucking embarrassment.

I’m a white person, and I will fully admit to talking to anyone who is dog(ging).

CHECK OUT YA GIRL ALL LEGIT!!! DRINKS ON ME! And by drinks I mean seltzer water with lime.

I know it’s hard dealing with the racism against white people. I’ve felt it too. Last year, while filling out my taxes, I told my son to get his registration so I could see how much I paid to register his car. I walked to the garage with him, and when he fumbled around in the glove compartment searching for the right…

“Moon cricket” almost sounds whimsical. I wouldn’t have guessed it was a slur (but OF COURSE it is. Sigh). Racists trying to be poetic.

I think it’s grounds for a warrant to check his basement... and freezer.

“My girlfriend was one of those black people that relied on welfare because she didn’t want to work. I told her that she was only allowed to eat dollar store soup until she got a job & kept my food which was mainly meat & poultry was in a chest freezer. She left my food alone & found a job in only 1 week .”

I was thinking ‘homeboy _FANTASIZED_ about having a girlfriend, then he thought to himself “what if she eats all my dollar store soup? I know what I’d do...”’.

Can you imagine how sad, angry, and powerless that dude’s life is? That’s a ticking time bomb.

It’s like a war on paragraphs. At least break the screed up. I wish people would understand that indignance is not a substitute for clarity.

I think he completely made that up, or his gf was white, quite frankly. It does sound like some Ariel Castro shit.

See, when I first heard ‘Jigaboo’ I thought the person who said it was having a mini stroke.

How do you decompress after reading so much super-concentrated stupid?

Does anyone else think it’s possible that one guy kidnapped a woman, is calling her “girlfriend”, and a rescue party needs to go out and save her? Because that whole controlling her food thing was the freakiest and most disturbing thing I‘ve read this week.

*I prefer the pure simplicity of “porch monkey.”

This is, by far, my favorite thing on The Root to read. I look forward to it all week.

Thank you, Micheal Harriot, for Making Fridays Great Again.

I don’t particularly care for it because its very male gaze-y as opposed to empowered to me. Looks like a typical porn shoot, so meh - I guess I don’t see the artistic appeal. I’m an (older) Millennial.

I wouldn’t but it’d provide a brand new sexual injury for doctors to solve when they encounter those who would.

I’ve always wondered why entertainers in general are viewed as role models. It’s a really strange thing when you think about it.