Hard Crackers #8 (Summer 2021)

Hard Crackers is a new periodical looking at the lives of “ordinary people,” among whom there exists the capacity to overturn the present mess and build a new society. A place where black people can express their bitterness at the prolonged mistreatment they have suffered at the hands of whites, and where the resentment on the part of many whites at being blamed for a history they do not think is their fault can also be heard. “The alliance between a real estate tycoon and the people who live in shacks and trailer parks cannot endure.” This publication grew out of discussions among people who had been involved with the journal Race Traitor and virtually every article deals directly or indirectly with race.

This is a unique publication: political but not absorbed in elections or program, literary but not inflated, scholarly but not scholastic.

Contents of Summer Issue #8

• From the Editors
• Kadeem Johnson, “This injustice shit ain’t nothing new”: Thoughts on 2020 from Inside
• James Stephens, Just Another Swing-State Story
• Shaun, Where Dreams Go To Die
• Marty Brown, Portland, Pottawatomi, and “The Good Lord Bird”
• Tim Bruno, To All the Comrades I Could Have Known
• John Garvey & Mike Morgan, On Gentrification in Brooklyn
• Matt Capri, 2020
• Left Hook, The Sports Column: Around the World in Five Days