The Root s Clapback Mailbag: Whitenotes
Illustration: Oscar Bustamante
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.
The Clapback Mailbag will often search through the emails, tweets, DMs and comments to find a common theme from our perturbed readers. Sometimes they are upset about one thing. Occasionally, we will receive a spate of responses that all have the same “whataboutism.”
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all the things, including:
Not all white people
You’re the real racist
In fact, this week’s Mailbag letters were so completely batshit insane, the only feasible way to realistically clap back at these wypipo maniacs was to do an academic-style annotated examination of their white nonsense.
The Root s Clapback Mailbag: Empathy for the Devil
Illustration: Oscar Bustamante
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.
I’m a bag of white hot hate
I’ve been around for four long years
You can read me every Friday
I answer emails, DMs and tweets
trying to help you understand race
And when you call me the n-word
I don’t fly into a rage
Pleased to meet you
Here’s a hint:
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Although I think of “Sympathy for the Devil” as a rare example of white excellence, I have never heard a Black person play the Rolling Stones at a cookout. That one was for the white people.