Page 41 - Bensonhurst News Today

 

Worries about public safety, especially attacks against Asian Americans, caused some in the once-reliably Democratic bloc to vote Republican last year.

- and ed koch immediately says, "wait a minute. dont prejudge." prejudge? they said, "well, we dont know if it was race. maybe it was a guy mad about his girlfriend." so i say, "okay, you dont know if its race? we are going to come out here and march," cause i wanted to make it clear to the nation, this was about race. - over the weekend, civil rights leaders marched through bensonhurst, the all-white neighborhood where hawkins was killed. they wanted to show they could go anywhere. but they met...

And they surround him, and they kill him. a clear racial murder. - and ed koch immediately says, "wait a minute. dont prejudge." prejudge? they said, "well, we dont know if it was race. maybe it was a guy mad about his girlfriend." so i say, "okay, you dont know if its race? we are going to come out here and march," cause i wanted to make it clear to the nation, this was about race. - over the weekend, civil rights leaders marched through bensonhurst, the all-white neighborhood where hawkins was...

Thats right, baby! - we were walking, and they were following us, a group with signs with, you know, a monkey, a watermelon. the n-word was used. and when we got to the flatbed truck, well, i said to dave, i said, "dave, this is getting pretty volatile here." he said, "dont worry. i got this." he said to me, "i got this." we went on a flatbed truck, and the first words out of his mouth-- he pointed to them. he said, "im gonna be your mayor too." - as soon as yusef hawkins dies, it becomes the le...

Crowd: yusef! - [bleep]! thats right! thats right! thats right! thats right, baby! - we were walking, and they were following us, a group with signs with, you know, a monkey, a watermelon. the n-word was used. and when we got to the flatbed truck, well, i said to dave, i said, "dave, this is getting pretty volatile here." he said, "dont worry. i got this." he said to me, "i got this." we went on a flatbed truck, and the first words out of his mouth-- he pointed to them. he said, "im gonna be you...

- i dont know what crime and fighting crime has to do with racism. im very much in favor of the death penalty. - and you had a mayor that played between the divisions. - grandmothers say, "but hes a good boy. he never did anything." dont you believe it. - a big part of giulianis plan was peeling off 30% of the black vote, because a lot of black new yorkers loathed ed koch. - oh, mayor koch, hes told so many lies. - mayor for the rich, not for the poor. - in terms of administration, in terms of b...

- grandmothers say, "but hes a good boy. he never did anything." dont you believe it. - a big part of giulianis plan was peeling off 30% of the black vote, because a lot of black new yorkers loathed ed koch. - oh, mayor koch, hes told so many lies. - mayor for the rich, not for the poor. - in terms of administration, in terms of business, i think hes been terrific. but in race relations, hes been very, very, very sad. - justice! justice! justice for yusef! - and then there was the murder of this...

It's storytime! Read a science fiction/fantasy short story from Lightspeed Magazine here at io9.

A way-too-early preview of some of the hottest primaries.