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).
How Disney is still cashing in on a racist movie from 1946.
Posted on May 8, 2007, Source: New America Media
Hillary's most passionate backers are betting that the woman's vote will smooth the path to the White House for her. But if history is any guide, female voters won't be enough.
Posted on May 4, 2007, Source: New America Media
The top three Democratic presidential candidates recently uttered the two dirty words that have terrified Democratic contenders for more than a decade.
Posted on May 3, 2007, Source: New America Media
Swapping, selling and collecting a huge array of racist furnishings and home decorative pieces is a brisk and lucrative business.
Posted on Apr 30, 2007, Source: New America Media
A rapper recently told 60 Minutes that, if he knew the whereabouts of a mass killer, he wouldn't aid police. But blacks have more to lose than any other group when they turn a blind eye to crime.
Posted on Apr 24, 2007, Source: New America Media
The demand that an entire group apologize for the malicious act, even a mass atrocity, committed by one individual rests on shaky legal ground and even shakier moral ground.
Posted on Apr 20, 2007, Source: New America Media
Korean officials feared that many Americans might see the murderous assault as something more than the act of a lone deranged, individual. This was not a totally false fear.
Posted on Apr 18, 2007, Source: New America Media
Civil rights leaders should protest Snoop Dogg's forthcoming album. Imus demeaned a basketball team but Snoop has demeaned a generation of young blacks.
Posted on Apr 13, 2007, Source: New America Media
Why do so many blacks storm the barricades in fury against a Richards or an Imus but are stone silent, or utter only the feeblest of protests when blacks bash and trash?
Posted on Apr 10, 2007, Source: New America Media
Why the Congressional Black Caucus's deal with Fox makes perfectly good sense -- business sense, that is.
Posted on Apr 8, 2007, Source: New America Media
There are two reasons why Jesse Jackson's endorsement of Barack Obama won't help Obama's campaign.
Posted on Apr 3, 2007, Source: New America Media
Even federal judges, many of them Reagan and Bush appointees, agree that it's time to scrap the minimum mandatory sentencing law for drug abusers.
Posted on Mar 28, 2007, Source: New America Media
The attorney for the NYC police officer accused of killing Sean Bell believes his client will be acquitted. This is not typical attorney bluster; the odds are that he is right.
Posted on Mar 19, 2007, Source: New America Media
The NAACP's embrace of showy, symbolic fights does little to solve the problems of drugs, crime, gangs and soaring joblessness among young blacks, or the astronomical rate of prison incarceration of blacks.
Posted on Mar 7, 2007, Source: New America Media
Apologizing is more than a matter of morals. It's a recognition that this country protected, nourished and profited off of slavery for a century.
Posted on Feb 28, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The violence stems from a combustible blend of cultural and racial baggage many blacks carry, and the implicit message that black lives are expendable.
Posted on Feb 22, 2007, Source: New America Media
In the aftermath of the recent shooting there are signs of hope and a warning of peril for the thousands of Bosnian Muslims in America.
Posted on Feb 16, 2007, Source: New America Media
Obama will have more to worry about than race, and getting knocked for his political inexperience and skimpy Senate track record.
Posted on Feb 12, 2007, Source: New America Media
While race is a big X factor in Obama's bid for the top spot, it's hardly the only factor.
Posted on Feb 6, 2007, Source: New America Media
Farrakhan has been both vilified as an anti-Semite and also deified for championing the interests of the black poor.
Posted on Feb 2, 2007, Source: New America Media
Massive public discontent with Bush's hopelessly flawed and failed Iraq war cost the Republicans big in November and has them scared stiff about their future.
Posted on Jan 29, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The issues of racial hate and justice are pitted against each other in a Long Beach courtroom.
Posted on Jan 23, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The Democrats need someone who can win. That someone is not Hillary.
Posted on Jan 22, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Increasingly, prosecutors are trying to tag young black defendants with gang labels to help them win convictions. The Long Beach hate crimes trial is a stunning example.
Posted on Jan 16, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The fight for civil rights was easier in the 1960s.
Posted on Jan 15, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Believe it or not, in America, in 2007, there's a forbidden zone where blacks risk death if they enter.
Posted on Jan 3, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Ford scored points by appointing the first black Secretary of Transportation, but then stumbled on civil rights during the rest of his time in office.
Posted on Dec 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Civil rights leaders unfortunately know all too well the appropriate community response when whites are responsible for hate crimes against blacks, but what about when the tables are turned?
Posted on Dec 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Why McKinney's bill is more about getting back at Democrats than nailing Bush.
Posted on Dec 13, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Pelosi and the House Democrats have an obligation to refocus public debate on Bush's equally failed policies at home.
Posted on Dec 11, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Black female inmates outnumber white female inmates three to one, and their punishments don't always fit their crimes.
Posted on Dec 5, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The 'Seinfeld' comedian still hasn't repented for his racist gaffes at the Laugh Factory.
Posted on Nov 30, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Whites still commit the overwhelming majority of hate attacks, and African Americans are their prime targets. But blacks commit hate crimes, too.
Posted on Nov 28, 2006, Source: New America Media
If the 'Seinfeld' comedian got called out for using the n-word, so should black people who use it in jest or endearment.
Posted on Nov 21, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The Lott rehab seems like the exact wrong thing that the GOP could do to right its course after the wreck of the midterm debacle.
Posted on Nov 17, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Dems are convinced that they're within striking distance of the White House, so they need Hillary Clinton. But they also need someone who can win.
Posted on Nov 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Dems need to ensure than the CBC shares the front seat as they take the reins in the House.
Posted on Nov 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The hard truth is that many white Republicans would rather vote for a white Democrat than a black Republican.
Posted on Nov 6, 2006, Source: AlterNet
We shouldn't be too hard on Mehlman for his racial pandering; he's only taking his cue from the top.
Posted on Oct 31, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The pop star deserves cheers -- not jeers -- for shedding light on Africa's orphan crisis.
Posted on Oct 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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