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The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed-Race

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racial Pride, White House, Barack Obama, Blacks, Racial Typecasting, Racial Stereotypes, Race, African-Americans, Presidency, Racial Profiling, Politics News

This debate continues to rage -- and the debate is even sillier when one considers that science has long since debunked the notion of a pure racial type.

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How Obama Can Win the White House

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Bush and the GOP's domestic fumbles are potentially Obama's biggest selling point. He must repeatedly remind voters that they should be mad about the economy.

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Race (and West Virginia) Makes the Democrat's Obama Gamble Riskier than Ever

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: West Virginia, Barack Obama, Blacks, Racism, The Economy, George Bush, Democrats, Presidency, Students, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Blue Collar White Voters, Politics News

The overwhelming rejection of Obama by blue collar, rural, and non-college educated in West Virginia, all Democrats, is no longer cause for private worry for Obama but grave public fear.

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Franken Called Limbaugh a Big Fat Idiot, But Just Who Was the Idiot in Limbaugh's Latest Con?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Whites, Latinos, Rural Voters, Big Fat Idiot, Presidential Race, Texas, Blue Collar Voters, Rush Limbaugh, John Kerry, Operation Chaos, Barack Obama, Pennsylvania Primaries, Blacks, Al Franken, Ohio, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Indiana Primary, Politics News

By dignifying anything that Limbaugh says, Kerry and Team Obama do a disservice to the success that Obama's retooled stump tactics had in making the Indiana race closer.

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Hang in There Tavis Smiley, Don't let the Black Obama Thought Police Run You Out

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Politics, Barack Obama, Blacks, Tavis Smiley, Orwell, Tom Joyner, Democrats, Race, Animal Farm, Hillary Clinton, Home News

As late as this past January, black talk show host Tavis Smiley was the darling of black America. Three months later he's the butt of black Americ...

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Ferraro Keeps Getting it Right: Obama Should Apologize to Her

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Let rival Clinton (or God forbid, hubby Bill) even breathe the R word about Obama and the screeches from the clinically obsessive Hate Hillary Clubbers are swift and loud.

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Hillary's Real MLK Problem

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Change, Martin Luther King, Blacks, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Ehrenreich, Race, Barack Obama, African Americans, Hillary Clinton MLK, Stokely Carmichael, Politics News

Clinton's LBJ remark reveals something more worrisome than racial tone-deafness - a theory of social change that's as elitist as it is inaccurate.

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Blacks Savor Obama's Victory

New York Times | DIANE CARDWELL | Posted 01.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Blacks for Obama, Barack Obama Iowa Victory, Blacks, Barack Obama, Politics News

For Sadou Brown in a Los Angeles suburb, the decisive victory of Senator Barack Obama in Iowa was a moment to show his 14-year-old son what is possibl...

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Come on People, No, Come on Cosby

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Come on People, Blacks, Bill Cosby, Violence, Cosby Critics, African-Americans, Gangs, Eduation, Stereotypes, Cosby Criticism, Race Stereotypes, Bill Cosby Book, Black Students Behavior, Politics News

Stripped away, Cosby's book is the same stock claim that blacks can't read, write or speak coherent English, and are social and educational cripples and failures.

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In Defense of O'Reilly

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media

Read More: Al Sharpton, Stereotypes, Racism, Blacks, Bill O'Reilly, Segregation, Harlem, Media News

It's easy to razz O'Reilly as a loudmouthed racist. But dumping on O'Reilly for giving his honest reaction is disingenuous and self-serving. It simply puts O'Reilly on the hook while letting far too many others off of it.

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GOP Candidates Flock To Jewish Forum After Snubbing Latinos, Blacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics

The top four Republican presidential candidates will sit out Thursday night's debate before African-American voters at Morgan State University in Balt...

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