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  • Donald Trump Does Not Want That Smoke From Andrew Gillum

    Admittedly, I do not know much about Andrew Gillum. I know he won the Democratic nomination in Florida’s primary race for governor, beating heavy favorite Gwen Graham. I know he’s the mayor of Tallahassee. I know he graduated from Florida A&M—which is why every FAMU grad I’m Facebook friends with had 22,000 word-long status messages…

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    Damon Young

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    John McCain Was a White American Hero

    John McCain was a white American man, whose whiteness and Americanness and maleness were his most prominent and predictable characteristics. He was also considered to be a hero. Barack Obama spoke on McCain’s “courage to put the greater good above our own.” Joe Biden remarked that McCain’s life was “proof that some truths are timeless.”…

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    Damon Young

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  • The Gentrification Administration: Trump’s Homies Love Making Poor People Homeless

    In addition to his formal titles of Secret Conversation Sound Technician and Side Chick Check Deliverer, Michael Cohen can feel free to add “eviction specialist” to the skills section of his resume. A tenants rights group has accused the former presidential paramour wrangler of falsifying building permits to push out tenants occupying buildings owned by…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • All Your Faves Are Problematic: Tiger Woods Wants People to Respect the Office of the President

    Apparently, one of the perks of becoming president of the United States is that you get to play golf with Tiger Woods and Donald Trump is the fourth president to hit the fairways with Woods. The two have played twice since Russia stole the election from Hillary Clinton and gave the White House to their…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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    Jemele Hill and ESPN Get It Over With: Report

    Jemele Hill, a black woman who remained so while on television, had a rough go of it at ESPN in the fallout of calling Donald Trump, a sho nuff white supremacist, just that. She’s reportedly set to completely sever ties with the company at the beginning of September. Hill’s commentary is just too direct for…

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    Angela Helm

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  • 1-800-WYPIPO: Breaking Down Trump’s Tweets About Black Folks

    Why does Donald Trump keep coming for black folks? Here at The Root, we’ve been keeping an eye on the internets, and it looks like Trump has something disparaging to say about black folk, like, all of the time. He’s called Omarosa a dog; called LeBron James and Don Lemon dumb; not to mention his…

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    Felice León

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  • President Trump and Jeff Sessions Continue Their Reality Show Reunion Brawl on Twitter

    This week’s version of The Real Husbands of the White House aired a very special episode when the public break up between Nicki Minaj and Safaree President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions continued on social media. On Thursday, the president of people who find pleasure in watching monster trucks smash regular cars made an…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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    Donald Trump's Top 10 Most Racist Conspiracy Tweets

    Donald Trump’s Wednesday night tweet instructing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (better known as the real-life inspiration for the character Nelson Muntz on The Simpsons) to look into South Africa’s non-existent war on white farmers was the latest example of Trump’s long love affair with white supremacist conspiracy theories. While many pundits assume the president’s…

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Very Unstable Genius Says If You Impeach Him ‘Everybody Would Be Very Poor’

    During an interview with Ainsley Earhardt on Fox & Friends Wednesday, Donald Trump made the argument that if he were ever to be impeached, “everybody would be very poor.” The very unstable genius rambled his way through the interview, patting himself on the back, throwing out “facts” and “figures” to illustrate how successful his presidency…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Trump Insults Attorney General Jeff Sessions and King Keebler Fights Back

    The love affair between Attorney General Jeff “Kindergarten King Keebler” Sessions and President Vladimir TrumPutin could be titled, “When Being Racist Isn’t Enough.” Trump believed fool-heartedly that because he and Sessions shared a disdain for all things non-white, that the attorney general would protect the president from obvious issues that he knew or even suspected…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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