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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.