theGrio's 20 craziest stories of 2013

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You just can’t make some of this stuff up.

How in the world did a man assigned to interpret Nelson Mandela’s memorial for the deaf not actually know sign language? Thamsanq Jantjie stood three feet away from President Barack Obama and reportedly suffered a schizophrenic attack, which was the purported root of his gestures.

And then Fox News’ Megyn Kelly declared that Santa Claus “just is white” and Jesus “was a white man, too.”

These stories were in the month of December alone. 2013 was quite the year for wacky, tacky and racially smh-worthy news.

Like the one about the white supremacist who found out he was 14 percent black – yep, the gifts that keep giving.

Thank you 2013. We’re sad to see you go, but we appreciate the moments you made us scratch our heads in disbelief.

Click here to read what made theGrio’s ‘wackiest’ list of 2012.