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Sikivu Hutchinson
The GOP’s Tired, Poor Huddled Masses
26 Jun 2012
by Sikivu Hutchinson Having based much of American exceptionalist mythology on the cult of white immigrant “values” – and the matching slander that African Americans are values-poor – the…
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God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Foundation Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino “Genocide”
14 Feb 2012
by Sikivu Hutchinson Money and religion make strange bedfellows. The most right-wing forces in U.S. politics have cultivated Black and Latino allies to label abortion rights advocates as…
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Black Scholarship, Non-Theism and Radical Politics: Where are the Writers?
07 Dec 2011
/*-->*/ by Sikivu Hutchinson To hear white institutions tell it, Black non-theists have nothing important to say about the human condition. But, in fact, “Black secular humanist critical…
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The Christian Fascists’ Personhood Campaign
02 Nov 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson Once again it’s time to play Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam.” On November 8, the state’s voters will decide an initiative aimed out dismantling Roe vs. Wade. “The most…
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LAUSD’s Apartheid Hall of Shame, Part 2: A View from the Classroom
08 Sep 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Black student “push-out” phenomenon is directly related to Black mass incarceration. Studies show that “African Americans go to the dean’s office for less serious…
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Los Angeles Schools’ Apartheid Hall of Shame (Part One)
25 Aug 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson It sounds like racial profiling in education, on a massive, institutional scale. “Black students are targeted, penalized and pushed-out in dizzyingly obscene numbers that…
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Bad “Bitches,” True Women
20 Jul 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Casey Anthony trial caused such consternation in white America because it “underscores how deeply the ideal of white womanhood is steeped in reverence for white…
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Defending ‘Our Mother’s Gardens’
06 Apr 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson On a host of fronts, the counter-revolution is on the offensive against “the revolutionary right of women to control their own destinies.” Under U.S. House legislation,…
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Planned Parenthood and the Rape of American Women
23 Feb 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson The right-wing lynch mob is out to destroy Planned Parenthood in the same way it smashed ACORN. In addition to the usual white suspects, “these pro-death marauders” are…
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Throwaway Children
26 Jan 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson A gun goes off in a Los Angeles public school, and children are wounded. Mass gun violence by students is an overwhelmingly white affair in the U.S., but “any time violence…