Sikivu Hutchinson's Blog, page 5
June 15, 2010
Not Knocking on Heaven's Door: Black Atheists, Urban America
by Sikivu Hutchinson
Enormous pressures push African Americans to embrace a Black “hyper-religiosity” – or, at least, to profess to it – despite the fact that “the proliferation of storefront churches in urban black communities is a symptom of economic underdevelopment.” However, “a growing segment” maintains that “morality is defined by just deeds, fairness, equality and respect for difference; not by how blusteringly one claims to adhere to ‘Godly’ principles.”
May 27, 2010
The Media and the Murder of Aiyanna Jones
by Sikivu Hutchinson
During the same week that CNN aired a program on children’s perception of the race and social values, the Detroit police provided their own lesson on the subject, callously killing a 7 year-old Black girl. Any kid might conclude that Aiyanna Jones was not a valuable person. Certainly, society had treated her as worthless.
May 4, 2010
The Usual Suspects: Arizona and the Black/Latino Divide
by Sikivu HutchinsonRev. Jesse Jackson, Jr. says Arizona’s anti-immigrant legislation is the new “Selma,” but there is also “the perception that Latino organizations don’t support African American activism around such issues as racial profiling and police brutality.” Black America must face the fact that those who rant about “taking the country back” are at least as resentful of African Americans as they are of brown immigrants.
April 13, 2010
The GOP's Rebel Yell
by Sikivu HutchinsonThe Tea Partyers are set to refloat the old 1994 “Contract with America” as part of their general right wing offensive. The New Confederates vow to wage decisive war against the Obama administration’s imaginary “socialism.” So far, the Right’s “junkyard thuggery” seems to be working. “The prospect of a Republican midterm election sweep looks even more tantalizing.”
March 30, 2010
Mob Rules: Tea Party's High Noon
by Sikivu HutchinsonThe unfortunately undead lurch out of America’s racial horror houses to reclaim the land for the White Man. Corporate media and the GOP confer respectability to the Old Confederacy’s second coming (did it ever leave?). “The freshly evangelized macho racist right has ensured that its charge of a socialist government expansion is now viewed as a ‘reasonable’ critique.”
March 16, 2010
International Women's Day: Iran and The Global Struggle for Women's Liberation
by Sikivu Hutchinson
The western model, or perception, of feminism has limited utility to women living under Muslim fundamentalist rule in nations in conflict with U.S. imperialism. Some women so situated find direct connections with women of color who are exploited in multiple ways in the West.
