The following articles by Larry Pinkney were republished in worldproutassembly.org (2005-2011) from April 2008 to April 2010. All articles were originally published in The Black Commentator (BC).
Lynne Stewart and Ralph Poynter: Stalwart Cohorts in the People’s Struggle
By Larry Pinkney
April 27, 2008 (BC Issue 237, July 12, 2007)
May Day, Cynthia McKinney, and the Rejection of Systemic Collaboration
By Larry Pinkney
May 1, 2008 (BC Issue 275, May 1, 2008)
Web Archive
The Republicrats: A Plague on Both Houses
By Larry Pinkney
May 9, 2008 (BC Issue 276, May 8, 2008)
Web Archive
On the Importance of Reparations and Self-Determination
By Larry Pinkney
May 16, 2008 (BC Issue 277, May 15, 2008)
Freedom’s Struggle is Constant and Ongoing
By Larry Pinkney
September 12, 2008 (BC Issue 290, September 11, 2008)
Web Archive
Emory Douglas and Billy X. Jennings: Keepers of the Flame and Guardians of the Legacy
By Larry Pinkney
September 18, 2008 (BC Issue 291, September 18, 2008)
An Obama Presidency: More of the Same – Only Worse
By Larry Pinkney
November 1, 2008 (BC Issue 297, October 30, 2008)
Web Archive
Wall Street Is Still Very Much In Charge
By Larry Pinkney
November 9, 2008 (BC Issue 298, November 7, 2008)
Web Archive
Mumbai, Media Manipulation, and US Subterfuge
By Larry Pinkney
December 4, 2008 (BC Issue 302, December 4, 2008)
“Landlord” Greed and the Spiral of Homelessness in America – Plus the Obama Presidency: A Nightmare Fulfilled
By Larry Pinkney
January 17, 2009 (BC Issue 306, January 8, 2009)
The Obama Spectacle: History, Hypocrisy and Empire
By Larry Pinkney
January 27, 2009 (BC Issue 308, January 22, 2009)
The Poverty of the Mind: Hold On, Stay Strong, Carry On
By Larry Pinkney
June 28, 2009 (BC Issue 330, June 25, 2009)
Obama is no Sellout: Just the Empire’s Latest Puppet
By Larry Pinkney
July 31, 2009 (BC Issue 335, July 30, 2009)
Silence of the Lambs? Liberal Hypocrisy & the Complicity of the Left
By Larry Pinkney
September 7, 2009 (BC Issue 340, September 3, 2009)
Historical Revisionism and Selective Memory in America
By Larry Pinkney
September 10, 2009? (BC Issue 341, September 10, 2009)
Excerpted:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090916150524/http://www.worldprout[…]
Historical Revisionism and Selective Memory in America
So it is today that political and human rights activists such as Reverend Edward Pinkney (no relation) of Benton Harbor, Michigan, Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, etc. are despised by many, largely ignored or marginalized by the corporate media, and are the targets for mockery, derision, discreditation, imprisonment and/or worse by local, state, and national U.S. Government authorities and its corporate allies. This is why empire ‘America’ unendingly repeats the cycle of imperialistic wars abroad and corporate bloodsucking at home. This cycle can and must be broken, but this will not be done by the vampiric corporate elite (both White and Black) who in fact perpetuate it. It will only be done by everyday people who are fed up with being corporate chattel and political / military cannon fodder, and who are uncompromisingly organized to break this cycle once and for all. It must be with determination and a deep sense of justice that we involve ourselves in this dialectical and protracted struggle to break this cycle. We cannot expect to be loved or even respected by those against whom we struggle or their mindless minions. We can however expect to fiercely fight for the ideals of a truly free society, unfettered by corporate domination, disinformation, and control. – Larry Pinkney
Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal: Justice Barometers of our Soul
By Larry Pinkney
September 19, 2009 (BC Issue 342, September 17, 2009)
And What of the Black Underclass?
By Larry Pinkney
November 10, 2009 (BC Issue 349, November 5, 2009)
Lynne Stewart, The Patriot Act and Cointelpro
By Larry Pinkney
November 20, 2009 (BC Issue 351, November 19, 2009)
Silence: The Fifth Column of Complicity
By Larry Pinkney
December 4, 2009 (BC Issue 353, December 3, 2009)
Larry Pinkney was also quoted in another article in the same worldproutassembly.org December 4, 2009 issue entitled, Dr King Spanks Obama: Part 4 by David Kendall.
Quotes:
According to Larry Pinkney, “the underbelly of this nation is the black underclass. Instead of becoming smaller and moving out of poverty and disenfranchisement, the black underclass has grown much, much larger and become even more impoverished and disenfranchised”.
In chapter 5 of his book, Dr. King implores the American black population to educate themselves and to become more actively involved in politics. [2] While some have successfully heeded this call to action, Pinkney further observes, “The relatively small black elite has shamelessly, in complicity with the elite of its white counterpart, helped spawn an insidious new form of racism and economic apartheid. Moreover, members of the black underclass are themselves chastised and blamed by this insidious black elite and intelligentsia for being the economic and social victims of a callous, avaricious, capitalist system which now finds itself in deep trouble nationally and globally”. [16]
Barack Obama: Impersonating a Black Man
By Larry Pinkney
January 14, 2010? (BC Issue 357, January 7, 2010)
Bourgeois Ping-Pong Politics & the Mulattos of the Mind
By Larry Pinkney
January 31, 2010 (BC Issue 360, January 28, 2010)
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Huey P. Newton: What Might He Be Doing Today in this Intensifying Struggle?
By Larry Pinkney
February 21, 2010 (BC Issue 363, February 18, 2010)
Has Black America Been Politically Lobotomized?
By Larry Pinkney
March 2, 2010? (BC Issue 364, February 25, 2010)
Time to ACTUALIZE A People’s Vision of the Future
By Larry Pinkney
March 8, 2010 (BC Issue 365, March 4, 2010)
Excerpted:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100309061612/http://www.worldprout[…]
Time to ACTUALIZE A People’s Vision of the Future
The growing joblessness, home foreclosures, burgeoning prison population, bloody wars abroad, environmental degradation, and a de facto national police state in this nation deeply affects everyday people everywhere, and it did not simply happen—, it was brought into being by the avaricious corporate / military elite who are the scourge upon this nation and planet. We must always remember that capitalism is by its very nature,–systemic terrorism against the poor and everyday people. We / you, hold the key to real systemic change, and it is we who must bring it about! Each one teach one! Onward then my sisters and brothers! Onward!…. – Larry Pinkney
On Accomplishing the Impossible
By Larry Pinkney
April 8, 2010 (BC Issue 370, April 8, 2010)
Decloaking the Deadly Foxes in Our Midst
By Larry Pinkney
April 16, 2010 (BC Issue 371, April 15, 2010)
Staying Focused in the Struggle
By Larry Pinkney
April 24, 2010 (BC Issue 372, April 22, 2010)
Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.)
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