Sikivu Hutchinson's Blog, page 4
June 14, 2011
Return of the 'Right Hand of God'
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by Sikivu Hutchinson
The Christian Right and the Tea Party spring from the same white supremacist roots, “bellwethers of a deepening white nationalist movement whose ‘spiritual’ center is Christian fascism.” Fundamentalists are drawn to “the Tea Party’s ‘populist’ message of jobs, lower taxes, and small government.” In an era of diminishing opportunities, “many whites believe that they are now the primary victims of racism in the U.S.”
April 5, 2011
Defending ‘Our Mother’s Gardens’
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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, anti-abortion booby-traps are embedded in the tax code, as entrapments. “Women who are audited could be forced to reveal why and how they had an abortion, further ensuring Big Brother’s reign over their bodies and destinies” – a horrific combo of “sexual terrorism and state power.”
Defending 'Our Mother's Gardens'
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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, anti-abortion booby-traps are embedded in the tax code, as entrapments. “Women who are audited could be forced to reveal why and how they had an abortion, further ensuring Big Brother’s reign over their bodies and destinies” – a horrific combo of “sexual terrorism and state power.”
March 15, 2011
Moral Combat: An Interview with Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson
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by Nathalie Woods
Frequent BAR contribuor Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson’s new book confront the web of patrimony and religiosity that often binds Black America to its historical tormentors. “Despite longstanding traditions of secular humanism, skepticism, and Freethought espoused by such thinkers as Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen and Richard Wright, Atheism remains a taboo belief system in black communities.”
February 22, 2011
Planned Parenthood and the Rape of American Women
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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 reinforced by “black preachers, and Christian soldiers like MLK’s anti-abortion activist niece Alveda King.” Their “propaganda has cropped up recently in black and Latino Southern California neighborhoods.”
January 25, 2011
Throwaway Children
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 erupts in a black or Latino context it’s a racial indictment, an indictment of a community, not a nation.”
October 12, 2010
American Terror
by Sikivu Hutchinson
It is not enough to preach mere “tolerance” of those who do not conform to gender norms. “Gay identities have moral value both as part of the range of sexual identity and in their difference from the compulsory heterosexual norm.” And, as is usual in a racist society, the damage to non-whites whose sexual identities challenge the norm is routinely ignored.
September 29, 2010
I Wanna Be A Macho Man: The Prosperity Gospel According to Eddie Long
by Sikivu Hutchinson
Allegations that Bishop Eddie Long lured young Black men to become his sexual playthings should come as no surprise, since his brand of "faith pimping spiritual ministry translates into emotional manipulation, psychological control, and sexual exploitation." Long, a "self-proclaimed 'spiritual daddy' to a nationwide army of 'wayward' sons," is the inevitable offspring of religious patriarchy and robber baron politics.
August 25, 2010
High Stakes Teaching and the "Value-Added" Sham
by Sikivu Hutchinson
The Los Angeles Times weighed in against the city's scapegoated teachers, giving public school elementary educators low marks on so-called 'value-added' assessments – a term that is as corporate as they come. The new regime serves neither teachers nor students. Rather, "the intersection of high stakes testing and zero tolerance discipline policies have created a perfect storm for black and brown students already deemed expendable by teachers and administrators."
July 20, 2010
DNA and "the Banality of Evil"
by Sikivu Hutchinson
First, the criminal justice system failed the Black victims of an LA serial killer. Now, the system embraces a family DNA aggregator approach that is certain to further stigmatize African Americans through shared genetic markers. “The wholesale over-incarceration of African American communities means that many African Americans are related to someone who has been convicted of a felony.”
