Jan 28 2013
Some atheists are constantly bashing faith-based organizations AND believers of color for being backwards, ignorant and discriminatory. But at the end of the day, what are mainstream secular, humanist, atheist and freethought “human rights” organizations doing to actively fight for social and racial justice in American communities of color? How many know or care about the following human and …
Jan 17 2013
By Sikivu Hutchinson (Excerpt from Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels, March 2013) For the past several months, Crenshaw Boulevard in predominantly black South Los Angeles has featured a series of striking billboards condemning homophobia and its role in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The billboards are the work of the black gay activist group In the Meantime …
Jan 03 2013
By Sikivu Hutchinson When I was five years old I was sexually assaulted by neighbors. Ours was a tranquil post-white flight neighborhood of beautiful single family homes, obsessively tended lawns and keeping-up-with-the-Joneses home improvement. It was the mid-seventies; before black women’s experiences with rape had come into broader public consciousness through works like The Color …
Dec 20 2012
by Frederick Sparks “A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.” – Ida B. Wells Barnett Grabbing a group lunch after our latest Los Angeles Black Skeptics meeting, the conversation inevitably turned to the massacre in Newtown and the related issue of gun laws and gun control. One new member expressed his opposition …
Dec 16 2012
By Sikivu Hutchinson Standing in line at the California Science Center the day of the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary school, my students wondered aloud about the race of the shooter. “More than likely he was white,” they agreed. As the only people of color waiting to be admitted to the exhibit, their open …
Nov 19 2012
By Sikivu Hutchinson The 24-hour prayer sessions are the true test of a warrior for Jesus. They require Herculean stamina, the patience of Job, the rigor of elite marathon runners hitting the wall in a fiery sweat pit at high altitude, primed for God’s finish line. In many small storefront Pentecostal churches these “pray-a-thons” are …
Nov 13 2012
By Frederick Sparks Jimmy Carter’s grandson, James Carter IV, who brought us the infamous “47%” Mitt Romney video, has uncovered the audio recording of an interview of the famed political consultant Atwater by late political science professor Alexander Lamis. Lamis published the interview without using Atwater’s name in his 1984 book The Two Party South, and …
Nov 08 2012
By Frederick Sparks And it wasn’t even close. According to the Sunlight Foundation, 97.82% of the expenditures of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc. and 98.58% of the expenditures of Planned Parenthood Votes’ ended in the desired results, in terms of candidates supported and opposed. As a comparison: The worst performers were the NRA’s super …
Nov 07 2012
By Sikivu Hutchinson Over the past four years President Obama has promoted Wall Street’s capitalist siege against working and middle class homeowners. He has sanctioned drone attacks on thousands of innocent Middle Eastern people. He has ignored the deepening crisis of African American unemployment, foreclosure, and mass-incarceration. He has presided over more deportations of undocumented …
Nov 06 2012
California Voter Recommendations from Black Skeptics & Radical Women Los Angeles: We live in contradictory times, and the ballot reflects this with several, mostly bad, tax propositions plus an entreaty to eliminate the death penalty, repeal Three Strikes and increase funding for K-16 education. Proposition 30: Temporary Tax Increases for Education and other Needs— VOTE YES According …
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