http://www.dogonvillage.com Connecting the Black Diaspora with news, politics, and issues important to African-Americans Fri, 10 May 2013 16:19:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/obamas-big-bet-on-blacks-is-key-to-2012-victory/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/obamas-big-bet-on-blacks-is-key-to-2012-victory/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:36:34 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1940 By Earl Ofari Hutchinson (The Grio.com) – The one thing that sets off the loudest bells and whistles at the White House is any hint of a diminution in the bedrock support of black voters for President Obama’s re-election bid in 2012. The dreaded faint tingling happened when Gallup recently released a poll that showed [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/04/obamas-big-bet-on-blacks-is-key-to-2012-victory/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/fraudulent-birther-controversy-trumps-only-presidential-trump/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/fraudulent-birther-controversy-trumps-only-presidential-trump/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:53:24 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1715 By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Real Estate tycoon Donald Trump’s talk about a presidential bid is take your pick: a bad joke, a cheap publicity stunt, or the delusional raving of a guy with too much money, too much ego, and way too much time on his hands to stroke both. But Trump did manage [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/fraudulent-birther-controversy-trumps-only-presidential-trump/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/why-so-many-white-men-still-don%e2%80%99t-like-president-obama/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/why-so-many-white-men-still-don%e2%80%99t-like-president-obama/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:31:25 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1596 By Earl Ofari Hutchinson – The latest Pew Research Center survey found a lot of things that should cheer President Obama. Voter anger against government even among those that identify as Tea Party backers is down, the Wisconsin union standoff hasn’t stirred any widespread anti-labor backlash, and there’s more tolerance than ever for same sex [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/03/why-so-many-white-men-still-don%e2%80%99t-like-president-obama/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/02/why-the-gop-declared-open-season-on-michelle/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/02/why-the-gop-declared-open-season-on-michelle/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:48:02 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1474 By Earl Ofari Hutchinson – Former Arkansas Governor and almost certain 2012 presidential contender Mike Huckabee recently told reporters that attacks from Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and an armada of others in the GOP on Michelle Obama were silly, foolish, and counter-productive. Huckabee’s push-back at the Michelle bashers was as noble as it was futile. [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2011/02/why-the-gop-declared-open-season-on-michelle/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/why-carville-won%e2%80%99t-apologize-to-obama-for-his-balls-crack/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/why-carville-won%e2%80%99t-apologize-to-obama-for-his-balls-crack/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:22:19 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1031 By Earl Ofari Hutchinson – Not surprisingly the always dependable controversial quotable especially when it come to knocking President Obama Democratic strategist James Carville was petulant and defiant when asked whether he’d apologize for his latest Obama wisecrack. The dig was Carville’s supposedly play on an old joke when he cracked that Hillary Clinton should [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/why-carville-won%e2%80%99t-apologize-to-obama-for-his-balls-crack/feed/ 0 http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/surely-no-one-should-be-surprised-that-palin-plays-the-race-card/ http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/surely-no-one-should-be-surprised-that-palin-plays-the-race-card/#comments Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:18:37 +0000 villagechief http://www.dogonvillage.com/?p=1027 By Earl Ofari Hutchinson – The advance PR flacks for HarperCollins knew exactly what they were doing when they calculatedly leaked a provocative passage from Sara Palin’s newest ego stroke book, America by Heart. The passage incited race. This time the target is not President Obama, at least not directly. It is First Lady Michelle [...]]]> http://www.dogonvillage.com/2010/11/surely-no-one-should-be-surprised-that-palin-plays-the-race-card/feed/ 0