Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Beat em' when they're down, and beat em' again for good measure before they can get up.

The beatdown supposedly is not the American way of dealing with those who are down.

Bernice King can make history in two ways. She made it first by becoming the first woman in the fifty-two-year history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to take the organization’s reins.

There’s an outsized map of Chicago on the wall of the office of the Black Star Project. In the center of the map, there’s the letter "A." The letter is the Chicago home of the Obamas. The “A” is surrounded by yellow stickers that make the map look like the bullseye of a dartboard. The analogy is deadly fitting because each sticker represents a child under age 18 who was murdered.

The bitter truth is that President Obama can’t talk about race even if he wants to. This has absolutely nothing to do with his mixed racial upbringing or his straddle of many worlds. It has everything to do with politics. If Obama spoke out on race, he’d confirm the deep suspicions of the right that he’s a closet racial panderer, ala Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. He’d also get creamed as a Democrat who tilts to minorities. Democratic presidents and candidates Clinton, Gore, and Kerry, in four Presidential elections, avoided that tag like the plague. It was deemed a political kiss of death.

In August 2007, Sen. Barack Obama, fresh on the Presidential campaign trail, made an impassioned promise at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to wage what he dubbed the war that has to be won.

In an interview on NBC's “Today” show two weeks after he was sworn in, President Obama was blunt.

He said if he didn't deliver, he'd be "a one- term proposition." Put this in the category of what did he know and when did he know it.

President Obama has gotten more death threats in a shorter period of time than any other President in U.S. history.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs got it right when he bluntly said that the deal is that the legions who are adamant that President Obama is an illegal alien and should be dumped from the White House will never go away

Dr. Conrad Murray did two things the fateful day that the King of Pop died.

He rushed to the hospital with paramedics in the fawn hope of saving Jackson. And he rushed to get an attorney.

If President Obama’s drive for some form of universal health care falters, the biggest losers by far will be African-Americans and Hispanics.

According to a report by the Commonwealth Fund, blacks and Hispanics make up nearly half of the estimated 50 million Americans who have no healthcare insurance. But the danger signs for reform are real.