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Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. knows the feeling of talking politics in a black barbershop. “People don’t say ‘this is left-wing,’ or ‘this is right-wing,?...
Gates, who is the director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, said he wanted to channel this barbershop atmosphere in “The Root,” an online magazine he launched Monday.
Geared towards blacks readers, The Root will create a forum for the political ideas of black America, which Gates said are typically oversimplified into a “monolithic black point of view” by mainstream media.
Gates encourages black Americans to trace their roots with modern genetic technology. A link to his genetics Web site is present on The Root.
“I don’t care where black people have their DNA tested,” Gates said when asked about the potential conflict. He noted that other genetics testing Web sites publicized on The Root.