I’m guessing that’s a big part of why he’s leaving - he needs more time to focus on his books.

I’m shattered.

Yeah, sometime in the last few years the dog whistles got replaced with bullhorns.

Keep making shitty people uncomfortable, Michael. You do a service to those of us who aren’t as good with words but who feel just as passionate about our people and causes important to us. Major respect brother.

this huuuuuurts. oh my god. nooooooooooo.

May that poor woman’s cries haunt them for the rest of their days. Pump it into their prison cells over speaker as they try to sleep.

Love & power, Michael. The racists will be happy to not have you handing them mirrors & notebooks anymore, but they all know in their hearts that you’re right because you kept hammering the stake into ‘em.

Noooo NOOOOO NOOOOOO!! I know you’re a baller and a poet, a writer and destined for greatness (while being off the market & married to a doctor!) but I can’t handle change right now! So stop, call it off, come back and keep The Root’s continuity! I haven’t even read your post but I’m upset now for the rest of the…

Beautifully said. I wish we could print your response on every billboard across this country.  Bravo!!

Pretty sure you are being genuine so allow me to retort. Most people who victim blame (or in this case, more generally, put the onus squarely on women to protect themselves) COMPLETELY overlook the behavior from men. Words have meaning, and when you focus your words on one half of an equation while ignoring the fact th…

Wishing her peace, healing, and much success. What she went through is impossible to imagine—both having the strength and the moral certitude to do what she knew was right even though it was a heavy, heavy burden and she paid a high price. I only hope that in the future more Black women and Women of Color are taken…

Yeah, it’s about time for us to stop using “people of color”. The media has done a great job as using that as a tool to say basically black folks are tripping about the amount of racism we receive in America. I don’t put it past the Asian lady for using the slur “monkey”, especially after multiple events of anti-black…

The endgame is power at any cost, it seems.  Short-term power, so that all the rules can be changed to ensure long-term power.  All Republican voters are pawns to be sacrificed in this game of tiddly-checkers.

Your difficulty in understanding it is rooted in your decency. How would any of this national madness ever make sense to a decent person? It is the same mentality that pretends it doesn’t know who & what was behind that horrid treasonist, seditious insurrection. We are standing in the gap between good & evil.…

IMHO: purely to hit the prevailing RW media points, most GOP leadership in red and red leaning states happily engage sado-populism - poor white people need to defy a defined enemy and, preferably, openly inflict pain on that enemy.

And when it doesn’t suck it blows. Because they do shit like this.

Whats really wild to me is that I grew up in a time (born 1970) when politicians who did absolutely stupid things were removed from office. I honestly do not understand how Ron DeVirus and Abbott and other GOP governors who are aligned with this idiocy are not currently being removed from office. And arrested. And…

The fundamental testing problem for pot/weed/ May Jane/ is that there is no standard to tell when a person is affected and by how much. There’s a pretty clear link for alcohol - the human liver metabolizes it and when it’s gone (the alcohol, not the liver... ok, maybe both) the person is either sober or in a box.…

Now here’s where I ask the management of the Private Equity group that seems to be running Kinja into the ground, if they intend to erase the rights of women, non-white men and LGBTQ+?

I mean we knew it was coming right? They tried to blame old people, then migrants crossing the border, then the Afghan refugees that hadn’t even arrived yet but when all else fails we knew that Fox News & The GOP would go back to page one in the playbook, BLACK FOLKS. That is right, blaming us is their Lombardi Packer…