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Guest Commentator

Sikivu Hutchinson

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Sikivu Hutchinson, PhD is the author of new novel, White Nights, Black Paradise, on Peoples Temple & the Jonestown Massacre. She has also written Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, the Values Wars and the recently released book Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels. Dr. Hutchinson blogs at blackfemlens. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Guest Commentary

No, Trump’s Racist Anti-Muslim Proposal Is Very American

By Sikivu Hutchinson Guest Commentator

one of my pet peeves is those who self-righteously claim that these fascist acts are “un-American”, when they are merely chickens coming home to roost.

Malcolm X’s critique resonates in an environment of in-your-face white supremacist vitriol stoked by nearly eight years of hating on Obama and social justice. Exhibit A…

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Guest Commentary

Police Criminals and the Brutalization of Black Girls

By Sikivu Hutchinson Guest Commentator

Socialized to see black women as chattel, thuggish police officers play on misogynist white supremacist stereotypes to justify their criminality under the color of law.

The videotaped assault and sexual harassment of 14 year-old Dajerria Becton by a rampaging white police officer after a pool party in McKinney, Texas makes it…

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