Sometimes the Democrats are as Wrong and Boneheaded as the Republicans.
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I have been a registered democrat since the day I became a naturalized US citizen in August 1996. Initially...
Author: Rock Hackshaw
Adjusting the Saddle (Again)
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In a column last week, I told you that Room Eight New York Politics was celebrating its ninth birthday...
Memo to Brooklyn College: Racism is a Costly and Destructive Sunuvabitch (Part Two of Three)
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Late last year (11/12/2014), I published part one of what was supposed to be a two-parter. If you go...
Trying to Get Back in the Saddle (Again)
|In case you are unaware, ROOM EIGHT NEW YORK POLITICS is nine years old this week. The first day of every spring ages us one year. I am sure many folks are surprised that we are still around.
MY TWO CENTS: FROM FERGUSON, TO STATEN ISLAND, TO CLEVELAND, AND TO NEAR EVERYWHERE IN THE USA (the United States of Amnesia).
|Recently, the public has been inundated by folks in media, with reports of widespread civil-unrest, rebellion, agitation, demonstrations and protests: all in response to the recent spate of outlandish police-killings where no indictments were handed down. Since last spring, we have seen a wave of shocking police-brutality incidents which have left many stunned and bewildered.
The 2014 Election: It’s Not the Economy “Stupid”; It’s the “Mulatto” in the White House. (Part One of Two).
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Many will find these upcoming columns to be quite controversial; but “c’est la vie”. You see, the truth by...
The Things You Will Hardly Ever Know: Unless You Are Keen Enough to Dig Deep for Truths
|On October 28, 1958, two black boys, 7-year-old James Hanover Thompson, and 9-year-old David “Fuzzy” Simpson, were among a group of children in Monroe, North Carolina, who were playing as young children do: without much pattern or apparent direction. Most of the children were white. Their ages ranged from six to ten. They were unsupervised at the time.
Memo to Brooklyn College: Racism is a Costly and Destructive Sunuvabitch (part 1 of 2)
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I have sat on this column for almost three years now; because somewhere and sometime back there, uneasiness met...
Note to Democrats in 2014: Relax.
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Basic civics teaches us that the US senate has 100 seats; with each state having two representatives therein. It...
A Major Endorsement for the Upcoming Gubernatorial Democratic Primary Elections
|I haven’t been writing much in recent months due to the many heavy challenges life has recently sent my way. Maybe one day I will explain further. Just be assured that I am not finished with political commentary as yet. Additionally, I have chosen to stay quiet lately, because I am totally disconcerted with the way ‘we the people’ (for the most part) have tacitly supported the non-representation that apologizes for representative government.
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