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Texas Grandmother Shoots Masturbating, Bicycle-Riding Burglar
One of the favorites for best BMX bike trick in the 2019 X Games suffered a severe setback to his chances at a gold medal when a 68-year-old woman shot him as he masturbated on a bicycle after trying to break into her house. The woman, only identified as “Granny Jean” said that she was…
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From Bad to Worse: Day 2 of the 2018 World Wypipo Tournament
Welcome back to day 2 of the 2018 World Wypipo Tournament! If you haven’t filled out your ballot for the first half of your bracket, there’s still time to fill them out here. Polls for the first round close at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday and the second round begins on Friday morning. Here is the…
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People are Actually Hating on LeBron James' I Promise School Because … You Know Why
I imagine that there is an undiscovered ancient text penned by one of the lesser-known apostles that recounts the life of Yeshua from a unique perspective. And, according to the Gospel of Antwan, when the disciples passed out plates of whiting and hush puppies to the multitude that showed up at Jesus’ open-invitation fish fry,…
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Trump Supporter Calls C-Span, Threatens to Shoot Don Lemon
Proving Donald Trump’s constant criticism of the news media isn’t at all dangerous, a Trump supporter called a live national television show and threatened to make America great again with the attempted murder of two CNN journalists. During C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Friday, a man who referred to himself as Don from State College, Penn.,…
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The 2nd Annual World Wypipo Tournament: Who is the Worst?
For over a decade, The Root has chronicled the Caucastic shenanigans of our melanin-deficient counterparts. While the 2018 Tournament of Wypipo marks the second time we have officially held this competition, our community has a long history of ranking and judging wypipo. In 1798, Cleotis Banneker became the first black man to organize a ranking…
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Watch: Long Beach Police Investigating Video of White Man Dragging Unconscious Man Off Train
A video of a white man dragging an unconscious man off a train has prompted a police investigation although they have not yet determined if the man has committed a crime. The person who recorded the video alleges that the unconscious man lying on the floor of a Long Beach, Calif., train had just suffered…
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Video: Louisiana Cops Strangle Black Man to Death for Asking to See Arrest Warrant
Once, for a writing prompt, I was asked to describe how it felt to be white. I imagined that it feels like freedom. Like how flying feels to a hawk. Even the literal sky is not the limit when one is granted the privilege of being born with wings. A hawk is not an evil…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: White Advice for Black People
Hey guys, sorry there was no mailbag last week. It’s all Yesha’s fault (Not really, but she’s not in today so … trust me, she did it). I’m sure no one even noticed, but I received some mail that said I should apologize for leaving y’all hanging. Sometimes, instead of arguing and crying so much,…
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The 8 Kinds of Black Donald Trump Supporters
Black people love Donald Trump. In the 2016 election, Donald Trump earned more black votes (8 percent, according to the Roper Center) than Mitt Romney in 2012 (6 percent) or John McCain in 2008 (4 percent). While Barack Obama’s blackness or the Russians may have had something to do with that, in 2016, twice as…
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#BrooklynBecky: Cops Called on Suspicious-Looking 'Black' Woman Waiting for Uber in the Rain
A recent video of a white woman calling the police on a woman for standing in a likely gentrified Brooklyn building’s doorway highlights the black community’s unawareness of a set of secretly ratified constitutional amendments guaranteeing Colonizer-Americans the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of unapologetic whiteness. On July 25, Facebook user Darsell Obregon…
