Published in Issue 476 of The Black Commentator on June 14, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“What better way to enslave a man than to give him the vote and tell him he’s free.”
-Albert Camus

“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.”
-Lucy Parsons

As […]

Published in Issue 475 of The Black Commentator on June 7, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”

-Amilcar Cabral

“Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

-Howard Zinn

The struggling masses of ordinary everyday Black, White, Brown, […]

Published in Issue 474 of The Black Commentator on May 31, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“With skillful manipulating of the press, they’re able to make the victim look like the criminal, and the criminal look like the victim.”
– Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]

“If those in charge of our society – politicians, […]

Published in Issue 473 of The Black Commentator on May 24, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
– Frederick Douglass

The single most potent and effective form of slavery is mental. It is this slavery that suffocates the potential and the aspirations of everyday Black, White, […]

Published in Issue 472 of The Black Commentator on May 17, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“For him, the oratory of the politicians who sent him off to war – the language of freedom, democracy, and justice – is now seen as the ultimate hypocrisy. A mute, thinking torso on a hospital bed, he finds […]

Published in Issue 471 of The Black Commentator on May 10, 2012

By Larry Pinkney

I penned this poem of not so random thoughts, in recognition of the shameless hypocrisy and tragic betrayal of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people, by so many supposed ‘liberals’ and ‘progressives’ who make claim to being a […]

Published in Issue 470 of The Black Commentator on May 3, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“I freed a thousand slaves – I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”
–Harriet Tubman

Are we hamsters running endlessly on a spinning wheel, oblivious to the fact that we are […]

Published in Issue 469 of The Black Commentator on April 26, 2012
By Larry Pinkney

“And in the framework of the collectivity there were the differentiations, the stratification, and the bloodthirsty tensions fed by classes; and finally, on the immense scale of humanity, there were racial hatreds, slavery, exploitation, and above all the bloodless genocide which […]