I agree with all of this. Especially the bit about self-identification. It's identification of YOURSELF. Who are we to judge someone else about their personal life experience?

"…and HBCU folks (well a segment of us that attended certain HBCUs) are
mad protective AND patronizing towards PWI about their reasons for not
attending one (its true, suck it up)."

It's a possibility. I'll let you have that, since I really have no frame of reference for anything on the west coast.

I think you just have funky friends. lol Functional smokers with good jobs have plenty of tricks.

That's why God invented Yankee Candle. ;-)

Smoking weed indoors is different from smoking cigarettes because the smell dissipates. Once cigarette smoke gets into your clothes or house, the smell never leaves. But leave your apartment after a marijuana session and come back a few hours later, you'd never know.

Because I'm not a decisionmaker as far as laws are concerned. I do my part and vote, but that's pretty much where my ability to affect change stops.

That last paragraph tho. I don't think they heard you in the cheap seats.

I think where you went wrong was thinking that 2 Chainz has a stylist.

Your first sentence is all kinds of wrong, considering that there have still been 0 documented cases of marijuana overdose or physical dependence.

I keep trying to reply to comments on this post, but I keep deleting them. Too many of you expect celebrities to be all things to all people just because they're celebrities. And way too many of you expect rappers to be these all-encompassing voices for Black America. Most rappers didn't go to school, so they…

David Banner wears the social justice hat because he put it on himself. Kendrick is just a rapper who happened to answer an interview question with a personal opinion, which is the point of interviews. It's unfair to judge Kendrick based on your preconceived notions of what he should know/say/feel.

Guys, it's our fault. We are disappointed by rappers speaking on social issues because we expect them to be something other than great rappers. Kendrick didn't ask to be the spokesperson for Black America as it pertains to the situation in Ferguson. He was asked a question in an interview and he answered it. He didn't…

Are we talking about Azealia Banks? If so, she's not an idiot savant because she's a woman. She's an idiot savant because she's an idiot savant whose greatest skill is getting into wildly off-base Twitter beefs. Her idiot savantness is well-documented.

I just learned how to play dominoes about 2 years ago. Then I downloaded a phone app to keep my skills up, but playing against the computer ain't the same. My girl bought me TWO sets of dominoes for Christmas this year, so I'm set. Now I just need someone to come over.

Yep. Alladis!

I'm thinking it's more of a work-study thing. Like, you need at least a part-time J.O.B. or internship, etc. etc.

Can we wait til the man actually MAKES the proposal to pick it apart? Obama has not shared one detail about this thing (just a general proposition), yet we're already criticizing it. How about we wait for Obama to actually state his case?

"I hope gas doesn't spike again"? Well aren't you in for a world of disappointment.

Woooooo!!! I'm not alone! We really out here!