It’s cool if people disagree with his choice. It’s his hair, and it’s your opinion. But I just wish this article wasn’t so one-sided.

It’s obvious you have no clue as to the history of dreadlocks because it’s a hair style that has been found across the globe in a wide variety of Eastern and Western cultures and it sure as shit wasn’t invented by Rastas. Hell, the fucking bible mentions the seven locks of Samson and the Norsemen and Celts were both…

You make fair points, for sure. From Ebony magazine (2016):

I actually thought Judy leaving was the jump the shark moment. It’s not that she was a great character, but the fact they couldn’t even be bothered to mention she was gone was indicative of impossibly lazy writing and contempt for the audience.

I was waiting for his face to morph into this...

Just wait for him to get his ass shot off by a white cop next time he goes plainclothes. Maye then he will grab a clue, unless he goes full Uncle Ruckus.

It’s not like she was a small Season 1 character only, either. To put it another way she was on the show for 40% of the entire run of the show, 50% if you don’t include the last season because... that last season was not great. They put Waldo Faldo on the cover and he was 1) not even part of the family and 2) on for…

Black women are always at the forefront of everything Black and take all of the beatings and then have to come to their homes and worry about Black men harming them as well. It’s a damn shame and us Black men can’t help elevate the Black community without elevating Black women and LGBT people.

Disagree. The Root has always been straight forward. The article speaks the truth. And sometimes that truth hurts. We gotta do better for all of us for all of us to do better.

Why is talking about the reality of what Black women face anti-Black male? We are always told we’re being divisive when we talk about what’s going on. It’s a great way to silence us and nothing has to change. This has nothing to do with white people and what they want.

Could be. I just thought he was dumb. Met a lot of people like that. I don’t think he rubbed his hands together in malicious glee planning to offend anyone. I think he was surprised because he had these racist beliefs and thought they were NORMAL instead of racist.

White Opinion Alert. Feel free to disregard.

Creepy and military-state as fuck

“Police apparently thought it was appropriate to chant “whose streets, our streets,”

We are officially at a tipping point in our country. Thanks to 53% of white women who couldn’t be bothered to look past their own selfishness & short sighted need to feel special, people of color & others are now in danger. To all the Debra Messings, Mariska Hargitay’s & Amy Schumer’s enough with the memes & marches…

Tanks make a show of force, a warning, if you will

Killing people is part of the job

Maybe instead of arming our cops up in some crazy arms race between citizens and cops, we could tighten our gun laws. Did you stop to think that maybe there is higher respect for cops in other countries bc they actually serve the community and the lack of weapons they have compared to cops in this country probably…

Did you see the story with the nurse? Yeah, he wasn’t in military gear but I would’ve hated to see what happened if he was. Police are for the community. SWAT come in when the problem gets too big. Let’s keep it that way.

The expression “blood is thicker than water” originally meant that the bond between comrades is stronger than family, as in bathing in the blood of your enemies is a pretty powerful bonding experience, and it has been bastardized into meaning the exact opposite.