Sikivu Hutchinson's Blog, page 3
November 1, 2011
The Christian Fascists’ Personhood Campaign
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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 flat earth reactionary segment of the pro-death anti-choice movement wants to circumvent constitutional protections for abortion by conferring personhood on fertilized eggs.” In principle, women who violate the “inalienable rights” of their own eggs might be liable for murder.
The Christian Fascists' Personhood Campaign
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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 flat earth reactionary segment of the pro-death anti-choice movement wants to circumvent constitutional protections for abortion by conferring personhood on fertilized eggs.” In principle, women who violate the “inalienable rights” of their own eggs might be liable for murder.
September 7, 2011
LAUSD’s Apartheid Hall of Shame, Part 2: A View from the Classroom
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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 offenses than do Latinos and whites.” Disruptive behavior is in the subjective perception of the beholding teachers, some of whom “go off about ‘these black kids’ and what are you going to do with these black kids ‘cause I can’t teach in my classroom with these black kids going out of control.” Predominantly Black schools and faculty are often no better. “South L.A. schools with significant or majority black faculty and administrators are just as culpable.”
September 6, 2011
LAUSD's Apartheid Hall of Shame, Part 2: A View from the Classroom
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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 offenses than do Latinos and whites.” Disruptive behavior is in the subjective perception of the beholding teachers, some of whom “go off about ‘these black kids’ and what are you going to do with these black kids ‘cause I can’t teach in my classroom with these black kids going out of control.” Predominantly Black schools and faculty are often no better. “South L.A. schools with significant or majority black faculty and administrators are just as culpable.”
August 24, 2011
Los Angeles Schools’ Apartheid Hall of Shame (Part One)
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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 predict and mirror their disproportionate numbers in L.A. County juvenile detention centers and adult prisons.” Those are the conclusions of a recent report on schools in the Los Angele Unified District, where Black kids are grossly overrepresented among students ejected from classrooms. What’s more, such collective punishment occurs “regardless of the racial background of the faculty and administration or racial demographics and socioeconomic background of a given school.”
August 23, 2011
Los Angeles Schools' Apartheid Hall of Shame (Part One)
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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 predict and mirror their disproportionate numbers in L.A. County juvenile detention centers and adult prisons.” Those are the conclusions of a recent report on schools in the Los Angele Unified District, where Black kids are grossly overrepresented among students ejected from classrooms. What’s more, such collective punishment occurs “regardless of the racial background of the faculty and administration or racial demographics and socioeconomic background of a given school.”
July 20, 2011
Bad “Bitches,” True Women
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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 motherhood” – as opposed to “the dark uncivilized Other of Africa, Asia and Latin America.” Yet the “violent moral policing” of non-white women is a central chapter in the American story. Women of color face “racist drug enforcement and sentencing policies, coupled with mainstream assumptions of bad black motherhood.”
July 19, 2011
Bad "Bitches," True Women
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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 motherhood” – as opposed to “the dark uncivilized Other of Africa, Asia and Latin America.” Yet the “violent moral policing” of non-white women is a central chapter in the American story. Women of color face “racist drug enforcement and sentencing policies, coupled with mainstream assumptions of bad black motherhood.”
June 28, 2011
Bigoted American Family Values, Invisible Lives
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by Sikivu Hutchinson
“Mainstream media is still in the Ozzie and Harriet era when it comes to the realities of families of color.” Deeply layered stereotypes project white supremacist values onto gay and lesbian households, marginalizing diverse families of color, especially those that are poor. “Loving gay partners of color with children are virtually nonexistent” in American media.
June 21, 2011
Dangerous Distortions: Anti-Abortion Fascists and Third World Allies
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by Sikivu Hutchinson and Diane Arellano
Just as the Right puts a “Black” spin and face on its rabid assaults on Black women’s reproductive rights, so, too, in the Latino community. These same Right forces simultaneously oppose all measures for racial equality, immigrant rights and promotion of the general welfare. “Criminalizing choice and undocumented immigrants is part of a larger scheme in which big government eliminates the rights of the underclass and expands “social welfare” for corporations, the wealthy, and the military industrial complex.”
