{"id":1676,"date":"2009-11-05T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2013-02-12T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:35:10","slug":"and-what-of-the-black-underclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/and-what-of-the-black-underclass\/","title":{"rendered":"And What of the Black Underclass?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Issue 349 of The Black Commentator on November 5, 2009<\/a>
\nRepublished in worldproutassembly.org (2005-2011<\/a>) on November 10, 2009
\nExcerpted in know4life.blogspot.com on November 11, 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

By Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/p>\n

With more and more banks failing, joblessness steadily rising, and housing foreclosures continuing to reach an all time high in the\u00a0United States, the massive black underclass, which is generally ignored, hidden, and unnoticed;\u00a0reels<\/span><\/em>\u00a0with indescribable economic and social pain and deprivation.<\/p>\n

Having been ruthlessly betrayed by the black elite and much of black intelligentsia in the 21st century, the plight of the\u00a0black underclass<\/em>\u00a0in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0is, in some ways,\u00a0similar to\u00a0<\/em>the horrific existence suffered by the Dalit people (\u201cuntouchables\u201d) within\u00a0India\u2019s notorious and ongoing de facto caste system. Indeed, the black underclass in this nation can be accurately described as the economic and social Dalits of 21st century \u2018America.\u2019<\/p>\n

Even as every day persons of\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0colors in this nation increasingly undergo unacceptable and growing economic hardships, the black underclass sustains the brunt of economic and social apartheid in this nation. Notwithstanding the arrogance of the corporate \/ military elite of this nation, who see in their slick political puppet Barack Obama, a type of\u00a0urban uprising\u00a0insurance<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0against the masses of every day people whom they exploit;<\/strong>\u00a0the laws of physics simply cannot long be avoided. Two things cannot exist in the same place at the same time. In other words one cannot have tranquility of the masses while at the same time they are jobless, homeless, and starving. This untenable scenario is becoming an increasing reality for millions of citizens of all colors, and most especially as it exacerbates the economic and social horrors faced by the black underclass.<\/p>\n

The black underclass, which even during the best of economic times in this nation, disproportionally suffers massively, is now in a state of prolonged decay without even minimal life support. For black people in general and the black underclass in particular, obtaining a decent education, jobs, housing, health care, and judicial justice are fundamentally\u00a0out of the question<\/span><\/em>. The relatively small black elite has shamelessly, in complicity with\u00a0the elite of its white counterpart<\/em>, helped spawn an insidious\u00a0new form of<\/em>\u00a0racism and economic apartheid<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0mis<\/span><\/em>leaders of Black America are continuing to drink from the\u00a0same<\/em>\u00a0despicable trough of greed, lies, and exploitation as their elite white counterparts. They are also, like the corporate self described \u201cnews\u201d media of\u00a0disinformation<\/span>, showing themselves to be the absolute enemies of every day people of all colors, including the black underclass.<\/p>\n

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. What will it take for this black underclass to rise up? Only time will tell. Yet, one thing is certain: the more that persons become politically educated and conscious as to what is\u00a0truly\u00a0<\/em>in their interests\u00a0collectively<\/em>, the less tolerance they will have for the corporate slicksters, banksters, and Wall Street barons who are sucking the life blood from\u00a0us all<\/em>. Indeed, the less tolerance will be had for the military elite – who are\u00a0playing us for fools and using us<\/em>\u00a0as cannon fodder in\u00a0Afghanistan,\u00a0Iraq, and\u00a0Pakistan<\/em>! Democracy can never be spread at the end of a sword, for such a thing is in itself\u00a0a contradiction in terms.<\/em><\/p>\n

The black underclass\u00a0will\u00a0<\/em>ultimately, collectively rise up. The question is will it be organized and principled? We must be among those who determine the answer to this question\u00a0in the affirmative<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Time to identify and stand up to the blood suckers and war mongers. Time to agitate, educate, and organize locally and globally! Give\u00a0no\u00a0<\/em>quarter, no<\/em>\u00a0space,\u00a0no\u00a0<\/em>breathing room to media\u00a0mis<\/span>informers, the blood suckers, or the war mongers\u00a0whatever<\/span>\u00a0their gender or color<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Onward then sisters and brothers. The future calls and we must go! Onward!…<\/p>\n

Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is 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,\u00a0Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published in Issue 349 of The Black Commentator on November 5, 2009<\/a>
Republished in worldproutassembly.org (2005-2011<\/a>) on November 10, 2009
Excerpted in know4life.blogspot.com on November 11, 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

By Larry Pinkney<\/p>\n

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