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The Clapback Mailbag: Everything White People Know About White People Is Wrong

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Michael Harriot
Aug 23, 2025
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ChatGPT, Grok and even Alexa ain’t got shit on “Call Mikey.”

I grew up in an era where “Google” was a word that described how I stared out of the window when a white person rang the doorbell and my mama wasn’t home, and “AI” was the nickname for a famous NBA player with braids, tattoos and a mean crossover dribble.

Because I read a l…

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