Published in Issue 485 of The Black Commentator on September 13, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“No, I think the strongest suggestion is that they are working for the government, the new house-niggers. And what better way is there for them to sell themselves to […]

Published in Issue 484 of The Black Commentator on September 6, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”

– Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]

“Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”

– Amilcar Cabral

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Published in Issue 482 of The Black Commentator on July 26, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them…”

-Frederick Douglass

Will we ever learn from the lessons of history or are […]

Published in Issue 480 of The Black Commentator on July 12, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”

– Amilcar Cabral

The U.S. Declaration of Independence (including its Preamble) and the U.S. Constitution, though egregiously deficient with regards to the rights of Indigenous Native people, Black people, and women, etc., […]

Published in Issue 479 of The Black Commentator on July 5, 2012
Republished as ‘Brand Obama’ by Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox on July 6, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“The madness of this course, we believe, is admitted now…but we fear the […]

Published in Issue 478 of The Black Commentator on June 28, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

– Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

– […]

Published in Issue 477 of The Black Commentator on June 21, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of […]