Spotlight

Free Reading with Drink Specials
July 20, 8-10PM
Franklin Park Reading Series
July Theme: “Travels and Journeys"

Take a trip around the world, with stops in Europe, Japan and California. From tours of vineyards and centuries-old towns to life in bustling, modern cities, our readers will describe life-altering experiences and share their personal journeys.

Featuring:
Erin Einhorn (author of memoir The Pages In Between)
Alice Feiring (wine expert; author of memoir The Battle for Wine and Love)
Teddy Wayne (author of upcoming novel Kapitoil)
Alyssa Pinsker (Moth storyteller)

Franklin Park
618 St. John's Place, between Franklin and Classon Avenues
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
718-975-0196
Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Franklin Avenue
www.franklinparkbrooklyn.com

Viva Hate!

If you want to forward the white supremacist cause, do it intelligently. Bigoted entitlement is never smart, but you can at least package it as fighting for the disenfranchised white shitheads of America, rather than dementedly shooting a security guard and giving Jews from Crown Heights to Kibbutzim reason to rationalize their persecution fantasies with firearms. A shy Jewish boy brought up in the Black and Dominican dominated Lower East Side of the early '90s, I'm all about diversity, but can still play devil's advocate. After my Bar Mitzvah, my Rabbi's wife told me we should drop a nuclear bomb on Germany and I shouted "Heil Hitler" in her face. But these immature antics and button pushing are appropriate for a thirteen year-old hormone case, not a homicidal eighty eight year-old asshole. There are plenty of excuses for ignorance, but none for insistant, proud myopia. The ability to change our world and educate ourselves is color blind and revelling in one's own out-moded, racist ideas is being one's own taskmaster. White supremacists: You are only whipping your own backs.

-Royal