It’s Friday. After wading through the emails, tweets and direct messages from The Root’s readers, I noticed a disturbing trend: Some people have assumed that some of our articles have attacked them.

“Sucker Emails”A song by Michael HarriotTwo years ago, some co-workers of mineAsked me to clap back at trolls online.So we came up with a plan to respond to hateThe plan was dope, and it went this way ...