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: Advertisement 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.