As someone who was a young adult living near the Bay Area when the Jonestown tragedy unfolded, i still cringe every time i hear the phrase "drink the Kool-aide" and marvel how people using the phrase don't realize that the phrase causes some of us to re-visit in our minds graphic news pictures showing groups of dead families slumped across picnic tables, littered with plastic cups, some also covered in blood because they were shot for refusing to drink.