October 2012 Blog Posts (18)

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

An AP poll on election week eve sent up red flags on the Presidential election. The poll found that more Americans expressed anti-black attitudes as well as anti-Hispanic bias than four years ago. Certainly few blacks and Hispanics, and many whites, have any illusions that racism has somehow been magically banished from American life or politics. The relentless battering of Obama and at times First Lady Michelle Obama with nooses, watermelons,…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

At first glance their numbers are pathetic. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein registers 3 percent of the vote nationally. Peace and Freedom Party candidate Roseanne Barr registers about the same. Justice Party presidential candidate, former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is seemingly too insignificant to even rate any numbers count. But the numbers don’t tell the potential danger they pose to…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It’s clear from the series of emails that the White House was informed that the attack on the American embassy in Libya may have been a planned, organized terrorist attack. President Obama’s critics jumped on this again supposedly as smoking gun proof that the White House engaged in a massive cover-up to keep the truth from the American people. But what was the truth? And what proof is there that Obama…

 



The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable on Wednesday, October 24 awarded a major Teacher Impact Award to Dorsey High School’s Physical Education Department. The award will be used to purchase much needed sporting equipment for P.E. student’s use at the school. The equipment shortage is due to severe budgetary cutbacks in the LAUSD. The need to provide sporting equipment to insure robust P.E. programs at inner city high schools is even more critical given the documented rise in…

The Hutchinson Report

Hutchinson Report Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson will discuss crucial education and labor union issues and Proposition 32 with California Teachers Assn. Secretary-Treasurer Mikki Cichocki on the Hutchinson Report on L.A.’s KTYM Radio 1460 AM, on Wednesday, October 24, 5:00 to 5:30 PM PST and streamed globally on ktym.com Cichocki is a specialist on students with discipline, attendance and child welfare issues. She will give pointed analysis…

The Hutchinson Report

Hutchinson Report Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson conducted one of the last recorded radio interviews with former Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern in October, 2010 on his syndicated Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour on L.A.’s KTYM Radio. McGovern reflected on his presidential campaign, Watergate, and the questionable tactics used to undermine his presidential bid. But McGovern also…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will hit President Obama during their foreign policy debate with the ancient political zinger, what did he know and when did he know it about Libya. The GOP’s attack line is that Obama botched the response to the terror attack on the American embassy in Libya in part to protect his claim that he destroyed Al-Qaeda, and in greater part to mask his alleged rudderless, muddled Middle East…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There were two telling moments in the Second debate that passed under the media spin radar scope but pointed to something troubling for President Obama. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney evoked God and defense of gun ownership. That was a subtle unstated reaffirmation of a political chit that Romney banks on. And that’s a wipeout of Obama with the rural vote. Then Democratic presidential candidate Barack…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

When the presidential debate dust finally settles, President Obama and GOP Presidential foe Mitt Romney will have spent a grand total of four and one half hours battering each other on who can do the best or worst job on tax reform, job creation, deficit reduction, staunching Iran’s nukes, and getting a grip on Middle East affairs. These are the same issues that the two have talked to near life support…

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Wednesday, October 10 demanded that the Romney Election Campaign Committee denounce the violently racist anti-Obama display of a watermelon and a hanging noose by prominent Romney supporter Blake la Beck on his Morgan Hill, California property. The display is not just an isolated example of one man’s bigotry but is prominently displayed near a public road and a…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The instant the Supreme Court decided to again tackle affirmative action, President Obama wasted no time. His Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. filed a straight forward brief that was signed off on by five federal agencies and the Justice Department that flatly called on the High Court to not scrap race as a factor in education. The court will decide the issue in that Fisher v. University of Texas the…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama has a surefire winner in any debate with GOP presidential foe Mitt Romney. And that’s his record. Romney stood it on its head and belittled it in their first debate. Obama given the imposed limitations of the debate couldn’t hammer back with it. But he can and he must. Debates are as much about style points as substance. But substance with style points will win every time. And this is where Obama can…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney’s camp claims that they had nothing to do with the release on the eve of the great presidential debate of the worn, totally dated, and much vetted Hampton University speech in 2007 in which pre President Obama praised his long past ex-minister Jeremiah Wright. We’ll take the Romney crew at their word. But the GOP mischief makers are another…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney had one chance and one chance only at doing the virtually impossible. That is unseating a sitting U.S. president. His chance was to tar President Obama as a hopeless failure on the economy. The history of all recent presidential elections shows that they are almost always won or lost on this issue. But the economic argument is not black and white, and can hold just as much…

Contrary to popular belief, there have been several books published by African American atheists over the past decade.  Despite the growing number of African American atheists, and stock calls for “diversity” within the movement, scholarship by black authors and academics has received little critical visibility or popular support from secular/atheist/humanist communities.

New and old offerings from prolific Rice University scholar Anthony Pinn and Sikivu Hutchinson:…

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