Earl Ofari Hutchinson's Blog Posts Tagged 'blacks' (17)

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It was more than fitting that President Obama’s inauguration fell on the national day of celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was even more fitting that he took the oath of office on the bible that King used. More than any other resident of the White House, Obama understood that King is a big reason for his political success. Then Democratic presidential candidate Obama first publicly expressed deep gratitude to King and the…

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The 2012 GOP convention organizers made much of the announcement that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Democratic Congressman Arthur Davis, and Saratoga Springs, Utah Mayor Mia Love will be among the featured speakers at the convention. They are supposedly the GOP’s loud public rebuke to the relentless charge that it has snatched in the welcome mat to blacks. But the three black speakers notwithstanding the 2012 GOP…

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The recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll registered what had to be a first ever for any candidate in any presidential election in modern times. The poll put GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s share of the black vote at 0 percent. At first glance that seems about right. Romney and his VP running mate Paul Ryan have singlehandedly done what few GOP presidential tickets have done and that’s actively…

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President Obama has heard one persistent grumble from the moment that he entered the White House. And that’s that he has not said and done enough to boost African-Americans. It’s been nothing more than a low intensity grumble for two simple reasons. One is that blacks backed him in near…

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The Reverend William Owens is banking that anti-gay marriage sentiment among blacks is so strong that it will put a crimp in President Obama’s near solid black voter support. He’s founded a group called the Coalition of African-American Pastors and he and his undetermined sized group are so confident that…

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A black Republican advocacy group wasted no time in hitting the airwaves moments after GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP convention. The group touted Romney’s alleged triumph in getting more than a few of the hostile crowd to cheer him at times. Their national radio ad taunted Obama like…

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The GOP’s relentless war on alleged rampant voter fraud targets, not thousands, as many critics have noted, but millions of eligible voters. To no surprise, the Brennan Center for Justice found that the majority of the five…

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has managed an incredible feat. In a Google search of millions of references of his campaign speeches, interviews, and his writings, I could not find a single word that he has written or spoken about the greatest economic crisis that faces any of the nation’s voter…

Impact Micro Awards for June Announced

Fathers and Parenting Support Focus

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced its Impact Micro Awards for June on Tuesday, June 12. Impact Micro Awards are made to support organizations that have a proven track record of commitment to building community sustainability projects, activities, and service. The…

MSNBC Commentator and Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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 the NAACP's historic endorsement of Gay Marriage. Does this reflect the sentiment of African-Americans on the issue and what are the political consequences of the gay marriage…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

For two fateful days at the end of April and the first day of May 1992, I ducked around police cordons, and barricades, cringed in fear at the cackle of police gunfire. I choked, and gagged on and was blinded by the thick, acrid smoke that at times blotted out the sun and gave an eerie…

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With GOP presidential contender Herman Cain’s presidential candidacy effectively dead, now’s a good time to turn a hard glare on the suddenly surging GOP Presidential contender Newt Gingrich’s racial skeletons. His closet is stuffed with them. The first reminder of that was…

The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour

 In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour on KTYM 1460 AM Radio, streamed globally on ktym.com, and on thehutchinsonreportnews.com on Friday, November 4, 9:30AM PST and Saturday, November 5, 7:00 PM, Don Scoggins,…

In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour with host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on KTYM 1460 AM Los Angeles on June 24, Bev Smith, Queen of Late Night Talk Show Hosts.

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