I can’t decide what is a more pathetic indicator of how tragic this Hotep’s life is: the stretched out collar on that old ass t-shirt or the sad Raiders flag hanging all alone on those stark white walls in the den of his mom’s 2 Bedroom+Den apartment.

Should’ve put in an ashiness-warning before linking.

The Raiders poster is a nice touch.

Yep.

This is a conversation between black folks, so no one gives a fuck how you feel about this conversation. Why do white people keep thinking that their feedback is needed for this conversation? I don’t step into feuds between the white women at Jezebel and the, I don’t know, two white women who write for Red State or…

You know the old adage that says that a joke needs to have a recognizable grain of truth to be funny? I guess these #TheRootArticles idiots didn’t get the memo.

Just practicing your right to free speech. I don’t always agree with everything you say, but hell you bring a valid provacative view point to the table that gets me to actually think about the issue.
Keep up the good work man, don’t let the haters bother ya.

Um, I am a white woman so I probably shouldn’t comment on this. But I do have a problem with this... “staff writers at The Root are all straight black males”. I think a little diversity would definitely help. We accepted a lovely black woman into our sorority sophomore year and it really helped change our perspective.…

The only part of this article that offended me was the raisins in the potato salad. Keep writing and you’ll always have my pageviews.

Since you’re handing out apologies, how about apologizing for your constant libeling of sweet grits (and those who love them).

How is it that you apparently have this magical power to suppress their numbers on Twitter, but you’re still letting dolt 45 through? Use those powers for good, please!

He really took that picture like he was gonna show you something, lol.

He ain’t no real hotep in 24/7 Raiders gear. I’m mean, not a kufi or kente cloth in sight not even some incense smoke drifting into the frame or an Any Means Necessary poster on the back of his door, brother needs to step his game up.

Of all the things to feel threatened by, I find it sad that here are some black men( assuming it isn’t some long pathetic con by some wypipo because some sad pathetic loser can do that) are threatened by theroot. I come here specifically because they are very few places like this online.

I’ve heard that masculinity is so fragile, but blackness? That’s pretty resilient. If these keyboard warriors feel attacked then that’s a personal problem, not something for them to project onto all straight black men.

This past weekend, a group of heroes united to form fuckboy Voltron

White dude here... You are allowed to have your own opinion and allowed to write about it, allowed to shout about it. In the age of anonymity people bitch and complain about everything and its getting to the point of paranoia. At least you put your name to what you write. Some of the things you write make me angry but…

You want men to own up to their bs, cool. But shouldn’t EVERYONE who is out here doing dirty be called out as well or nah?

Oh, so we should ignore the problematic folks there? Had that been all men and out of the 82 people there, R. Kelly and Bill Cosby were among them, they would go ignored because of the greater good?

“You people” need to stop grillin n chillin with coals and step up to gas and mesquite chips baby. And stop sleeping at school, walking too slowly acting like y’all know how to play golf at my country club, acting up at Waffle House, shopping for prom clothes at Nordstrom Rack (take your azzes to a Goodwill Select…