January 2013 Blog Posts (21)

Political Analyst and…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The NAACP and the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda were gentler than earlier critics, but no less incessant that President Obama had a duty and obligation to appoint more blacks and Latinos to cabinet and staff positions, and the Supreme Court. Unlike the earlier knocks against Obama for his alleged lack of diversity in his appointments, the civil rights groups put an exact number on how many blacks and Latinos they want him…

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Monday, January 28 at 11:00 AM atCompton City Hall 205 S. Willowbrook Ave. Compton 90220 will call for hate crime charges against the gang members sought in the attacks on a Compton black family and suspected of racist threats against other blacks in Compton. The racially motivated attack and threats continue a periodic disturbing pattern…

Political Analyst and Hutchinson Report Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Friday, January 25, will conduct an exclusive interview with Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel on his weekly Hutchinson Report at 9:00 AM PST, Noon EST, on KTYM Radio (1460 AM) streamed globally on ktym.com and on blogtalkradio.com. She will discuss Los Angeles city budget and finance issues, problems and concerns, audits of city government offices, and how her office works to monitor…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Matthew Whitten Darby, a white teen, is scheduled to go on trial in February for the hit and run murder in July, 2012 of 61 year old John Butts, a Sunday school teacher, cancer survivor, and an African-American.  As it now stands, Whitten will not be hit with a hate crime charge in the murder. Panola County, Mississippi prosecuting attorney John Champion is adamant that Darby had absolutely no racial motive in running down…

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Monday, January 21 called on Panola County, Mississippi Prosecuting Attorney C. Gaines Baker to file hate crime charges against Matthew Whitten Darby, a white teen charged with the deliberate hit and run murder January 13 of 61 year old John Butts, an African-American Sunday school teacher and cancer survivor. They are also…

In June, 2011 the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable launched its Building Self-Sustainable Communities Project to provide Impact Micro Awards to community organizations  and individuals that our working to build self-reliance and self-sustainability in the areas of violence prevention, at risk youth training, leadership mentoring and tutoring, financial education, health and nutrition…

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…

Hutchinson Report Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Friday, January 18, on KTYM-1460 AM Radio at 9:00 AM PST, streamed globally on ktym.com and on blogtalkradio.com will conduct an exclusive interview with LAPD Chief Charley Beck on the LAPD’s celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. He will discuss the background and significance of the LAPD sponsored annual King breakfast. Beck will tell how the King Holiday and the LAPD’s efforts to support and celebrate…

THE WHITE HOUSE

EMBARGOED UNTIL THE START OF THE PRESIDENT’S REMARKS

January 16, 2013

Attached are a fact sheet and executive summary on the package of proposals to reduce gun violence and a list of gun violence reduction…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama’s unilateral White House action on gun control is a good start. But Obama took the action precisely because he knows that gun control legislation is a virtual dead letter in Congress at least for the time being. To force the issue, Obama would have to spend precious time, energy, and resources jawboning anti-gun control congressional Democrats, wage an all-out battle with the gun lobby, and the NRA, and…

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

THE PRESIDENT:  Please have a seat, everybody.  Good morning.  I thought it might make sense to take some questions this week, as my first term comes to an end.

It’s been a busy and productive four years.  And I expect the same for the next four years.  I intend to carry…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Politics made for strange bedfellows in those taking swipes at President Obama’s white guy appointees. Staunch GOP conservative Mike Huckabee took the first hard whack. He screamed that Obama was a hypocrite on diversity in that he used the issue of the war on women during the presidential campaign to pound the GOP and then turned around and stacked his cabinet with white males. The swing then went over the political spectrum…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The issue is not the dubious foreign policy competence, independence, loose lipness or views of Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel. The issue is President Obama. The GOP has used the same shopworn template to hammer Obama so often it can be drawn up while asleep. It goes like this. Pick an Obama…

KTYM Radio-1460-AM announced the kick-off of a new weekly Southern California focused public affairs talk show on Friday, January 11, 9:00 AM. The show, The Hutchinson Report, will be hosted by noted political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson. The show will feature in-depth interviews with local elected officials, business, education, arts  and community leaders.

The show will allow local newsmakers and opinion leaders to fully…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell drew much derision, snickers, and ridicule for falling flat in fulfilling his oft repeated goal to make President Obama a one term president. Obama’s smash electoral vote and solid popular vote win made the GOP’s aim seem more comical. The fiscal cliff battle seemed to render it even more absurd. Obama was the big winner. He preserved the Bush tax cuts for the middle and working class,…

Congresswoman Maxine Waters appearing on The Hutchinson Report News Talk Show on Pacifica Radio on Saturday, January 5 hosted by political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson warned that she and other ranking Congressional Democrats will vigorously oppose proposed draconian slashes by GOP House members to vital programs for working persons and the needy. Waters is the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Financial Services Committee. She said that the…

Hutchinson Report Town Hall of the Air

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The last minute deal to avert the fiscal cliff brought fiscal relief, but that relief will be short lived. A year ago GOP congressional leaders made clear that if they have their way they will weld the meat ax on vital domestic programs. In March, they will get their chance. This time they have the cover and leverage of the debt ceiling battle, and they will be under even fiercer pressure from conservatives not to make any more…

Hutchinson Report Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Saturday, January 5, will host a townhall of the air on KPFK-Pacifica Radio (90.7 FM), streamed globally on kpfk.org at Noon PST, 3:00 PM EST on President Obama’s signing of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 that keeps Guantanamo open and allows the military to indefinitely detain American citizens on suspicion of supporting terrorism?  The show will hear from listeners and civil liberties…