D.C.: Legal to possess and smoke on private property. Legal to gift, give away for free. Legal to grow at home. Not legal on Federal land or public housing.

Life long New Yorker here. There are lots of reasons why New York will not be legalizing MJ anytime soon.

Police no longer have an excuse to harass Black & Brown men without reasonable & articulable suspicion that they are committing a crime.

That is a fair statement. The White women I have dated are not racist but they certainly benefit from White Supremacy, no question. I’m Latino, and as you stated the whole trope about Latino men being rapists is as American as apple pie and goes back a long way, it’s wrapped in virulent racism, preservation of female…

I love your comment. I might swear off White women for the rest of my life because of it. Thank you.

Black women and Brown women in NYC get stopped without reasonable suspicion and unnecessarily searched, humiliated etc. I’m a native New Yorker, I’ve seen it first hand. I’m on the receiving end of it myself as a Brown male. Police in NYC do not regard Black & Brown women the way they regard White women,

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Who exactly is surprised by this?

I’ll co-sign the SW Ep IV Cantina music.

I don’t know if people have seen the pics but I was on twitter a couple of days ago and people were tweeting pics of Black South Carolinian police officers guarding the Confederate battle flag outside the state house. Talk about dehumanizing work.

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It’s a start. Now how about all the statues, street signs, school names etc. glorifying White Supremacy in South Carolina and throughout the South...

We are clearly talking about Charleston here, being that this post is entitled “Obama Says N-Word While Decrying Racism, News Media Freaks”

It’s a smoke screen. The media freaks out because it doesn’t want to discuss the real issues: White Supremacy - Structural and Institutional Racism, Implicit Bias etc.

Can we talk about what may happen in 40 to 50 years when White people become a plurality in the U.S. and eventually a minority? Rhodesia anyone? Apartheid South Africa anyone?

The current population of this neighborhood is one of the reasons I’m moving to the West Coast. And by current population I don't mean White people: I mean Wall Street Types/Frat Bros and people who mostly used to live in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. Good luck squeezing onto the L train during morning rush…

Suffice it to say that none of the Black people I ever came across in my teenage years growing up in New York City liked Sci-Fi. Black Nerds were few and far between.

Coulter would qualify as Storm Roof’s wet dream, imo.

The Stormfront crowd is just pissed off about the extra scrutiny and surveillance they and their ilk will hopefully be under from this point forward. It’s time for the Feds to take the threat of Far-Right domestic terrorism seriously.

This film and your writing hit home for me. Not because I’m a multi-racial person with Black ancestry, but because as a Brown nerd this is what it was like for me growing up in 90s NYC. Sure my “nerd” at the time was a bit closeted, in the sense that only a few of my close friends knew I spent my free time watching…