Today, a Washington, DC resident writes into The Root's "Race Manners" advice column with an important sartorial question. So important that—for the benefit of our vast white readership—we will also attempt to answer it here.

A 10-year-old girl is the newest ringleader of the international conspiracy to obliterate any memory of the decimated Black city of New Orleans. She's published a book called "Riding The Storm Out," about "a different side of the hurricane," as her press materials coyly put it. In it, a (clearly white) dolphin raised…