Right?! And what’s the deal with him saying it was “just” an integrity deal. If you don’t have integrity, what do you have of any value to offer anyone?

I grew up watching The Cosby Show, but it did me a big disfavor. Since I grew up in a region where there were only white people, my only exposure to black people’s lives was The Cosby Show. I went out into the world thinking that’s how black people lived, that they were all well-off, well-respected, that there was no…

That was my first reaction, too. Then I thought about it from their perspective and this petty slap on the wrist is probably far more humiliating to them than if they could brag about being incarcerated “for the cause” to enhance their tough guy image. This makes it clear that the law takes them about as seriously as…

Why do so many of these people writing to criticize feel the need to share all about themselves? It’s disturbing. How can they be critical of the person they’re apparently hoping will validate them? Why else are they sharing all these details about themselves and their lives with Michael, Damon, The Root?

Beautifully written.

Interestingly, the Russian language doesn’t have the articles “the” and “a” so when Russians learn English they tend to leave them out more often than not in their conversation, particularly when they write. Are you Russian?

Even the dog is white.

The Back to the Future Delorean is real and it’s stored in the same warehouse as the Ark of the Covenant.

There’s a passage somewhere, I think it’s in Proverbs, that says the guilty flee when none pursueth. That’s what’s going on here. They wouldn’t think someone was after them if they weren’t guilty.

I could only watch a few seconds of it. The black kids stepped rhythmically and powerfully. The white kid stepped violently. I’m not a fan of encouraging or applauding white violence.

Your post is one of the reasons why I’m glad I stumbled across The Root one day. If you grow up and live your whole life around white people who have no reason to show if they’re racist or not because they’re never dealing with people of color, you can come to think racism is in the past. It’s been an education, and…

I’m buying the T-shirt and giving it to every white person I know: #mayosapien.

Beer to me tastes like what I imagine the water wrung out from dirty socks and a gym T-shirt after the work-out washed in a gutter tastes like. Because of the hops.

Being patronizing is an interesting subject to tackle in itself. Like yesterday a white friend of mine who roadbikes where almost all the roadbikers are black or latino was telling me that the group rags on each other with racist slurs and jokes all the time (latino against black, black against latio—”all in good…

Speaking as someone with your best interests at heart, you really don’t want to get rid of black people in America. When it’s just white people there’s no one to shift shame onto except your fellow white people.

“Good Darth Puppy, good Darth Puppy....”

I loved the Cosby Show, but sorry, best TV dad ever is Captain Benjamin Sisko in Deep Space Nine.

The post-black versions look like something the MiB should be dealing with. One thing, they really make white look...not good. I hope that was their purpose because anything else just doesn’t work. The black version of themselves is a million percent more attractive.

Yes. I’m white and this guy was a terrorist. Just turn it around—what if a black kid going through some kind of crisis targeted white people with bombs. Would the headlines avoid calling him a terrorist? Would the authorities try to explain and be compassionate toward his crisis? The idea is laughable. Even though,…

“It should be carefully relocated to a museum...” Yes. To the long over due Museum dedicated to American racism. After all they have a Holocaust Memorial Museum. Why not an American Racism Memorial Museum?