Published in Issue 489 of The Black Commentator on October 11, 2012
By Larry Pinkney
“…the two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ of non-recognition, no matter how we vote…May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either […]
Published in Issue 488 of The Black Commentator on October 4, 2012
By Larry Pinkney
“The fascists already have power. The point is that some way must be found to expose them and combat them. An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die. The holder of so called public […]
Published in Issue 487 of The Black Commentator on September 27, 2012
By Larry Pinkney
“History shows that it does not matter who is in power…those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights in the end than they did in the […]
Published in Issue 486 of The Black Commentator on September, 20, 2012
By Larry Pinkney
“Ignorance is a cure for nothing.”
-W.E.B. Du Bois
“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”
-Jose Marti
The vast majority of the populace of the United […]
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
[…]
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 481 of The Black Commentator on July 19, 2012
Republished in Intrepid Report on July 24, 2012
By Larry Pinkney
“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between […]
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 […]
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 […]
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The Scurvy Little Obamas of the Betrayer Judas Generation
Published in Issue 490 of The Black Commentator on October 18, 2012.
By Larry Pinkney
“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.”
– Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz
“We, as freedom fighters, are not weeping for the death of […]