The funny thing is, if they did write the headline with organic search in mind....the SJ Mercury News was in the lucky position to really capitalize on people most likely to click through to their article if they’d focused on Simone Manuel.

This whole piece, and especially that quote, really struck a chord with me. I grew up in a working class family and attended an elementary school in a predominately black and Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles. I earned a scholarship for all four years to a prestigious, private all girls high school. During my time…

I’m a long time out of college but my parents advice would have been “do better at another school and transfer”

I wouldn’t be totally shocked if her parents were the ones who put this in her head. Mommy and Daddy were embarrassed that their legacy didn’t hold enough sway with the Admissions Office to get her in so “blame the coloreds” and don’t let her think she didn’t get in because their alumnus checks weren’t big enough.

IT is unutterably sad to me that her parents did not sit her down and make her realize that she did not get in to the college of her choice because she did not earn it. Bottom line. These upper middle class parents need to get real with their offspring: race and money can only get you so far. Granted, it will get you…

2016 America: Where a 12-year old boy is shot and killed by the police for playing with a toy and it’s his fault because he should have “known” that people would see him as a threat, while a full-grown adult who rapes an unconscious woman and tries to flee should only have to endure a couple months of jail because…

I believe white swimmer boy has been protected and shielded left, right and sideways. Ignore it all you want, but you look like a fool.

Yeah, racial issues wouldn’t exist if those who are negatively affected by white supremacy would just shut up about it, right? And to compare what kinds of racist, misogynistic, and homophobic things FB regularly tolerates to their deleting a true statement about an actual convicted rapist is just sooo inappropriate,…

That’s not Kimbo Slice, dumbass.

Oh, it is bad over here.

If your friend was a true fiscal conservative, he wouldn’t be a Republican.

Starred because it deserves to be ungreyed. But I disagree that conservative policies are reasonable about money - see our military spending, the long term cost of cutting funding to health care, social safety nets, and education. It doesn't matter if you save a dime here if you lose a dollar later because your…

I’m in no way a doomsday prepper, but if I had unlimited money I would have a crazy bunker with enough supplies to last for years. Why not?

I can’t believe that we have invented YET another thing African Americans can’t do without being found threatening. Do not clench or raise your fist. That is proof of your partisan activity and you will be punished accordingly! What in the..??? Ironically, this is WHY we need SOCIAL activism like BLM, by the way BLM…

The fact that you’re a former soldier and don’t see the difference between this and someone giving a nazi salute frightens the hell out of me.

You equating BLM with Nazism says all there is to know about you.

Yes. Mainly because that’s completely and obviously different.

He looks like his name should be Chad. I'm just going to call him Chad. Fuck you, Chad.

I’m sure he’s headed back to his people to let them know how he was captured by some aliens, brought aboard their ship, then probed incessantly. Of course, no one will believe him. That’s just crazy talk.