Stories by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge, is a weekly co-host of the “Al Sharpton Show” on American Urban Radio Network. An associate editor of New America Media. He hosts the weekly “Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour” on the Hutchinson Newsmaker Network.

Rudolph Is No Lone Nut

Posted on: Jun 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet

The notion that terrorism only comes in the form of Al-Quaida attacks presumes that gender and racially motivated violence are isolated acts committed by a handful of quacks and unreconstructed bigots.

No New Lessons in Blair Con Act

Posted on: May 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet

The only thing these scam artists teach us is that much of the media keeps a hawk like watch for the slightest whiff of celebrity scandal and sensationalist violence.

Rotten Fruit – South Carolina's Enduring Lynching Laws

Posted on: May 20, 2003, Source: Pacific News Service

Under an old anti-lynching statute, South Carolina prosecutors are targeting mainly young African Americans.

Will Clinton's Plan to Beat Bush Work?

Posted on: May 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet

The White House is Bush's to lose. If the Democrats play up every Bush fumble and bumble they will unseat him.

High Court Real Target of GOP Rule Shenanigans

Posted on: May 12, 2003, Source: AlterNet

The right-wing furor over judicial nominations is a bald attempt to weaken the ability of Democrats to prevent a conservative takeover of the Supreme Court.

Rich vs. Poor in Black America

Posted on: May 7, 2003, Source: Pacific News Service

Reports that 1 million black children live in extreme poverty exist side-by-side with news of unprecedented economic, political and cultural gains by African Americans.

Court Keeps 'For Sale' Tag on Politicians

Posted on: May 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Ripping the gut out of the campaign finance reform as the court did will further convince the public that politics is a dirty, big money business, and that politicians are for sale to the highest bidder.

Stumbling Blocks For Bush on Reelection Path

Posted on: Apr 24, 2003, Source: AlterNet

President Bush's attempt to retain office in 2004 will be no cakewalk.

Bush Presents Colossal Dilemma for Greens in 2004

Posted on: Apr 15, 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.

Feds Promote Prison Racial Disparities

Posted on: Apr 13, 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.

Latinos Say 'Yes' to Iraq War -- But Why?

Posted on: Apr 6, 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.

Antiwar Movement Scores Victory on Battlefront

Posted on: Mar 30, 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.

Return Of 'Fragging' Echoes Earlier War

Posted on: Mar 24, 2003, Source: Pacific News Service

Solo attack on fellow soldiers by Muslim African-American again raises troubling questions for the U.S. military on race.

Bush Eye More on Home Front Than Battle Front

Posted on: Mar 24, 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.

Blacks Missing In Iraq Attack Protests

Posted on: Mar 19, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Though many blacks do not agree with the war on Iraq, they are notably absent from anti-war protests.

Battling Corporate Racial Insensitivity

Posted on: Mar 17, 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.

Powell Bashers Dead Wrong

Posted on: Mar 11, 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.

Making Sense of Clarence Thomas

Posted on: Mar 3, 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.

E-Commerce Hate

Posted on: Feb 25, 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?

Auctioning Racism on eBay

Posted on: Feb 20, 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.

Bush Panics on Terror

Posted on: Feb 18, 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.

Trust Bush to Protect Civil Liberties?

Posted on: Feb 16, 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.

Unselling Black History

Posted on: Feb 9, 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.

Praise Columbia Shuttle Crew, Not Bush's Policies

Posted on: Feb 2, 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.

Latinos Replace Blacks as Top Minority, But Problems Remain

Posted on: Jan 26, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Behind the demographic research lies volatile conflict between blacks and Latinos.

Al for President?

Posted on: Jan 21, 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.

Democrats Opened The Door For Bush To Dump Affirmative Action

Posted on: Jan 16, 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.

What If Whites Were Race Profiled?

Posted on: Jan 14, 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.

America Still Ignores MLK Day

Posted on: Jan 12, 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.

Battle Ahead Over Bush High Court Picks

Posted on: Jan 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Why did some conservatives squirm when near octogenarian U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist hinted that he might retire?

Sports Still No Ticket Out Of The Ghetto

Posted on: Jan 1, 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.

Clinton Can't Talk About Republican Hypocrisy

Posted on: Dec 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet

Former President Bill Clinton called the Republicans hypocrites for lambasting Trent Lott while subtly pandering to racial bigotry. Clinton should talk.

Lottism Without Lott

Posted on: Dec 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet

If, or more likely when, Senate Republicans dump Lott, Nickles, Frist and McConnell, could succeed him.

The Issue is Bush, Not Lott

Posted on: Dec 11, 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.

Democrats Should Show Outrage Over Lott's Remarks

Posted on: Dec 9, 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.

Predatory Lending Mocks American Dream

Posted on: Dec 5, 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.

The Cultural Sabotage of Black Students

Posted on: Dec 1, 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.

Supreme Court Should Strike Out Three Strikes

Posted on: Nov 27, 2002, Source: Pacific News Service

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.

Los Angeles -- America's Murder Capitol?

Posted on: Nov 24, 2002, Source: AlterNet

Enraged citizens want the LAPD to mobilize even bigger armies of police on the streets, and launch search and destroy missions against gang targets.

When Bush and Ashcroft Promise to Uphold Rights, Beware

Posted on: Nov 19, 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.

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