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The Root s Clapback Mailbag: Systemic Whiteness
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Clapback MailbagEach Friday, we select the best (or worst) emails, tweets, DMs and comments from our readers and respond to them in the The Root s Clapback Mailbag.
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From: Adam
To: Michael Harriot
I read your article “We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense”
I have a serious question: If America wasn’t founded on July 4, 1776, why do you think everyone agrees on that date? A white teacher probably taught you that two plus two equals four. So is that racist? Some things that are objectively true and just because a white person said it, it doesn’t mean it is racist.
Blow: Lessons from lynchings
April 7, 2021
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George Floyd’s public killing, in front of his community, echoes the centuries of slayings of men and women who look like Floyd. It is also hard not to recall that few people were ever punished for lynchings.Pool video via Court TV / New York Times
There are many appalling narratives emerging from the trial of the former police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd.
There is the transference of guilt from the people who killed Floyd to those who watched him die. There is the difference in empathy when a Black person in the inner city is struggling with opioid addiction, compared to when the drug user is a young white person in a suburb or rural America.