The Root

I've watched a few things by The Root: ignorant, biased, dishonest: a propaganda outfit (probably funded by the Russians).

I've watched a few things by The Root and this presenter. They're a propaganda outfit (funded by the Russians?). They do NOT present the FULL facts, though there are a few grains of truth, wrapped in lies and lies of omission. They show how racists see everything as racism, and how the left will prey on the gullible with exaggerations, distortions and half-truths (at best).

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2018-07-26

Which is a shame, if they were more tame and honest, there are valid points buried in there, but they're so covered in bullshit, that their purpose must be to divide, inflame the gullible, and people get dumber for watching them by thinking they know what they're talking about. Examples:

Forced Hair Cutting[edit source]

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The FakeNews used it repeat their fabrications about national race problems or worse, coupled it to Jeff Pence (VP) and his wife. Racism is everywhere! The reporter whos started the story, had promoted the families beauty products before starting the viral racial haircutting story. ^[1]. It seems like if any news had anything resembling fact checkers, they might have noticed this questionable behavior? Some are more responsible with corrections than others, but corrections wouldn't be necessary if we had responsible journalism waiting to get the facts, instead of sensationalizing every accusation with national front page headlines, and back page retraction.

Chinese Food[edit source]

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The Root
The Racist History of Chinese Restaurants

The gullible will watch the video and look around and see Chinese Restaurants as proof of racism. In truth, it's proof of diversity and how welcoming American culture is to foreign foods and cultures, even if things weren't so great for the first generation or two that came here.

Also without context you fail to recognize that as bad as America could sometimes be, we were still better than the rest of the world, at virtually every time in our history (and better than the places the people came from, or they wouldn't have come here) -- so they are trying to use "presentism" (judging the past by today's SJW's standards) as a way to outrage people. When all it really does is show how myopic and self-absorbed many kids are today to buy that crap.

Loitering Laws[edit source]

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Racist History of Loitering Laws : Racist American History

Look at the first two examples:

The black men in Starbucks didn't get arrested for sitting at Starbucks while black. They had a problem at THAT starbucks with people loitering all day, and the known SJW worker asked them to buy something or leave, and they said, "call the cops". So she did. (And it was trespassing not loitering). That's not about race, but actions. If starbucks asked me to buy something or leave, I would buy something or leave -- and there's no evidence ever presented that she wouldn't have done the same to a couple of rude white guys.
The guy arrested for selling cigarettes? (Eric Garner) Oh, he was a known problem (had run-ins with the cops many times before), who sold illegal (untaxed) cigarettes, then argued, fought and then resisted arrest. So he was dealing in contraband. (It was in the DNC controlled hyper-left NYC). If I was selling stolen goods on the same corner long enough, do you think the NYC cops might eventually get called and they eventually might try to arrest me? That's not about race, it's about attitude. If he had been a big white or samoan guy, doing the same thing, the same shit would have likely gone down the same way.

If those are the best 2 examples of racism that they come up with, then you know they don't have better examples. And that they don't offer the whole truth (context), let's you know what they're about. Loitering has been used against Irish (who are white), Mexicans, Asians, Whites (especially teens), homeless, and people of all races... not just because they were different in race/culture, but because of what large bands of unemployed and low class people do to area crime and property values. (It's as much classist as racist).