I appear to be a tad older than most of the commenters here...having entered high school the same year that LSD was criminalized. Nevertheless, my peers and I were in a mad scramble to keep pace with the Yellow Submarine crew and over the next decade or so I happily dropped acid (from purple microdot to orange barrel…

i hate the comedowns of acid. everything looks and feels gross.

this video didn't show an essential part of my acid trips: a half-hour to 45 minutes of bitching that we were cheated, this stuff isn't going to work, then hey! 8 hours of giggling.

I would love to see an interview with her now. See how it changed her life. Did it open her mind and she decided to become a rebel or did she go back to being a "normal" housewife. Did she have kids? Did she tell them about the time Mommy took acid for science?

Do you think there was a moment in there where the author thought, "Wow. Am I really about to publish an article in which I claim there's too much diversity on television? This is a thing I'm doing?"

Day/life made!

But why is this a "POC quota" when it is actually what audiences want—and if audiences didn't REALLY want it, there is no way they would get any traction whatsoever. Its not like someone mandated that they just include X token minorities to get some government contract. This is a direct response to public…

My favorite part of Kendrick's album

To piggy back off of your really excellent point, I'd add that a big problem is that police work is increasingly about generating revenue, rather than keeping people safe. There were a few big articles in the wake of Ferguson about how ticketing and jailing people for minor infractions is a huge source of revenue for…

This gets at the heart of a major problem in US policing. Officers are taught that ANY form of noncompliance is resisting and a danger to them and the public at large. The idea is that they have to maintain control of the situation at all times or else they are in danger, so the instant someone doesn't do what they…

I'm with you. I shall not utter his name either. My family worked real hard to get most of us into the "white collar" world and we want more wealth like most Americans. NO amount of money can make me forget how unfairly the black , Latino and Asian friends I've grown up have been treated throughout their lives for no…

Glad you asked; the answer is helpful for clarifying. Police acting like entitled assholes who can just grab a black man off the street at will and hold onto him while interrogating him , then use the first excuse to become brutally violent. Yeah, no racial element here. I'm sure they would have treated a young,…

If I could star you 100 times I would. I don't even call him by his name anymore. To me and my sister he's new black no 2. Kanye is number 1, Raven Symone is number 3, and it hurts me to say it, but Common is now a member at number 4.

So the police officer escalated the situation by grabbing Johnson's arm and refusing to let go, even though Johnson wasn't a flight risk and had identified himself with his actual ID.

Thanks, I found that myself. Probably should have clicked the links instead of asking in the first place but I was lazy.

I don't know the details but given how this country treats black people I don't find it implausible that we are missing nothing and there is no in between.

It is truly an eye opening experience for a sheltered white dude like me.

Back to 1963? This is how it's always been (for black people). The only difference is social media documents it and makes it impossible (for white people) to ignore, although many are still doing their damndest to try.

While Pharrell is in his sheltered bubble talking about being a New Black, our folks are over here being subjected to New Lynchings, New Jim Crow and now New Slavery.

And don't be evil. It catches up with you one way or another.