You’re being too generous. I read The Root very often, and I rarely find any dissenting voices to the site’s party line.

I, too, read The Root because I want those perspectives. For me, what’s troubling is that The Root can’t really do anything BESIDES snark. Moreover, that snark, which often means sloppy organization and a juvenile tone, does nothing but give cover for those who don’t find “the lack of diversity in journalism across…

Notwithstanding the impetuous and often asinine rhetoric that characterizes so many of the “articles” on this site, it should be a first step for The Root’s writers and editors to actually know WHO they are talking about: the man in the photo is NOT Chris Cuomo, it’s his brother Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York.

Notwithstanding the impetuous and often asinine rhetoric that characterize so many of the “articles” on this site, it should be a first step for The Root’s writers and editors to actually know WHO they are talking about: the man in the photo is NOT Chris Cuomo, it’s his brother Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York.