Stories by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His forthcoming book is The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House (Middle Passage Press, February 2008).
President Bush's attempt to retain office in 2004 will be no cakewalk.
Posted on Apr 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
If the Greens bull ahead in 2004 and equally slam Bush and the Democrats, they will draw their wrath and earn the permanent tag of spoilers or worse.
Posted on Apr 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Many states are starting to wise up that their tough "lock-'em-up" policies are squandering resources and creating cycles of violence. Pity that the Feds are headed the opposite direction.
Posted on Apr 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The press has played up the differing black and white attitudes toward war, but it makes almost no mention that nearly seventy percent of Latinos support the war.
Posted on Apr 7, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Antiwar activists did score a big victory by forcing Bush to fight the kind of war that most military planners hate: a political war.
Posted on Mar 31, 2003, Source: AlterNet
As a genuine wartime president, Bush will keep a sharp eye on the battlefront, and a sharper one on the home front. When the Iraq war ends, this is where he still must fight his biggest battles.
Posted on Mar 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Solo attack on fellow soldiers by Muslim African-American again raises troubling questions for the U.S. military on race.
Posted on Mar 25, 2003, Source: Pacific News Service
Though many blacks do not agree with the war on Iraq, they are notably absent from anti-war protests.
Posted on Mar 20, 2003, Source: AlterNet
eBay, the world's largest on line auction service, recently agreed that the racist collectibles they list and sell are offensive to African-Americans.
Posted on Mar 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Powell has always been the consummate team player, and reliable Republican policy spokesman. But contrary to criticism, he has not been a slavish sycophant on racial matters.
Posted on Mar 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet
From the time he hit the bench over a decade ago, Thomas has taken a see-no-evil stance on cases involving the beating and torturing of prisoners, corralling prisoners to hitching posts, and executing the mentally retarded.
Posted on Mar 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet
eBay has become a haven for racially offensive material, and a place for hate crime groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, to advertise their products. Want to let them know how you feel about it?
Posted on Feb 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Despite a stated policy to prohibit sale of racially offensive items, a rogues' gallery of racist collectibles is available for purchase on eBay.
Posted on Feb 21, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Code Orange made headline news in the press, but there was little indication that reporters made a serious effort to confirm that the sources that warned of the alleged attacks were legitimate.
Posted on Feb 19, 2003, Source: AlterNet
When the Center for Public Integrity blew the whistle on more proposals by the Bushies to gut civil liberties, the administration and the Justice Department feigned ignorance.
Posted on Feb 17, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Far too many Americans of all colors know absolutely nothing about the colossal significance of black history, and worse care nothing about it.
Posted on Feb 10, 2003, Source: AlterNet
A national tragedy, no matter how deep, and painful, is never reason to chill protest and stifle dissent against the bad policies, and the reckless actions of presidents.
Posted on Feb 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Behind the demographic research lies volatile conflict between blacks and Latinos.
Posted on Jan 27, 2003, Source: AlterNet
When the mantle of black leadership is wrapped tightly around one man, the presumption is that he or she speaks for all blacks.
Posted on Jan 22, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Despite their pose as staunch defenders of affirmative action, it was the Democrats that opened the door wide for Bush and the Republicans to re-launch their assault on affirmative action.
Posted on Jan 17, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Racially profiling whites would radically change the complexion of the nearly two million prisoners that now jam America’s jails and prisons.
Posted on Jan 15, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Twenty years after Ronald Reagan grudgingly made Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, less than 25 percent of the nation's businesses give their employees the day off.
Posted on Jan 13, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Why did some conservatives squirm when near octogenarian U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist hinted that he might retire?
Posted on Jan 7, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Despite the recent acquisition of a pro basketball team by an African American, the world of sports is no shining example of the end of racism.
Posted on Jan 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Former President Bill Clinton called the Republicans hypocrites for lambasting Trent Lott while subtly pandering to racial bigotry. Clinton should talk.
Posted on Dec 20, 2002, Source: AlterNet
If, or more likely when, Senate Republicans dump Lott, Nickles, Frist and McConnell, could succeed him.
Posted on Dec 18, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The issue is not Trent Lott's racism. The issue is President Bush's racism, and the inherent racism of the Republican Party.
Posted on Dec 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Soon to be Senate majority leader Trent Lott says that America would have had few problems today if retiring Senator Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948.
Posted on Dec 10, 2002, Source: AlterNet
While tough state and city laws send a strong signal that home lending discrimination won't be tolerated, they won't put these scam artists totally out of business.
Posted on Dec 6, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A comprehensive survey of student attitudes found that black and Latino students were as motivated, studied as hard, and were as serious about graduating as whites.
Posted on Dec 2, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Is sending a man to prison for 25 years for stealing golf clubs cruel and unusual punishment? Earl Ofari Hutchinson thinks it's time to strike down all such sentencing laws that a misinformed public and poll-watching politicians have kept in place.
Posted on Nov 28, 2002, Source: Pacific News Service
Enraged citizens want the LAPD to mobilize even bigger armies of police on the streets, and launch search and destroy missions against gang targets.
Posted on Nov 25, 2002, Source: AlterNet
U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review has dumped a ruling by the intelligence court last May to mildly restrict the Justice Department's surveillance authority.
Posted on Nov 20, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Any hint that Bush plans to nominate a judicial partisan would trigger a tidal wave of national rage and permanently tar Bush as a petty ideologue more concerned about advancing a narrow conservative agenda than building bi-partisan political consensus.
Posted on Nov 15, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bush's newfound power will help him try to pack the nation's courts with right-wing judges. It may be an uphill fight, but the struggle to oppose the appointments could breathe new life into the Democratic Party.
Posted on Nov 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Three strikes laws needlessly imprison thousands of persons who commit petty crimes, and criminalize a generation of young black and Latino males. The nation needs some more santity in its sentencing laws.
Posted on Nov 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Three strikes laws needlessly imprison thousands of persons who commit petty crimes, and criminalize a generation of young black and Latino males. Yet every attempt to void the laws have been vehemently rejected.
Posted on Nov 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The Winona Ryder trial shows that there is a different legal standard for rich and famous lawbreakers than there is for everyone else.
Posted on Nov 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Two studies on serial killers that specifically looked at the race of the killers found that blacks make up about 15 percent of America's rogue's gallery of mass murderers.
Posted on Oct 31, 2002, Source: AlterNet
While no evidence has yet appeared to link the sniper suspect to terrorist or religious fanatic groups, the fact that he is black and reportedly Muslim has many African American Muslims deeply worried about a witch hunt.
Posted on Oct 28, 2002, Source: AlterNet
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