{"id":1800,"date":"2008-05-22T10:51:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2013-02-20T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T18:31:00","slug":"cynthia-mckinney-that-audacious-black-woman-standing-with-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/cynthia-mckinney-that-audacious-black-woman-standing-with-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia McKinney: That Audacious Black Woman Standing With The People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Issue 278 of The Black Commentator on May 22, 2008<\/a>
\nRepublished in allthingscynthiamckinney.com on May 22, 2008<\/a>
\nListed in the Power to the People Committee Cynthia McKinney for President Weekly Update, Issue #9, May 26, 2008, and republished by\u00a0onthewilderside.com on May 28, 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

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

There are very few these days who demonstrate that all-too-rare quality of telling the narrative of the people\u2019s struggle\u00a0as it really is\u00a0<\/em>while simultaneously struggling to bring about real\u00a0systemic<\/em> change\u00a0with\u00a0<\/em>and for Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and White peoples. Cynthia McKinney is audaciously doing just that.<\/p>\n

Cynthia is running for President of the\u00a0United States of America, not as a Democratic or Republican Party [i.e. Republicrat] hustler, but as the\u00a0real\u00a0<\/em>people\u2019s candidate. She is\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0embraced, funded or backed by Wall Street, Lockheed, or any other entity of the corporate \/ military \/ prison apparatus as are the candidates of the Democratic and Republican Parties. The Cynthia McKinney campaign is about so much\u00a0more<\/em>\u00a0than merely a presidential run for office. It is about building an\u00a0ongoing<\/em>, well-honed, politically conscious people\u2019s movement with a view toward bringing about\u00a0systemic<\/em>\u00a0change. It is about the continuous\u00a0hard work<\/em>\u00a0of building political parties and organizations that are\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0beholden to the Republicrats [i.e. the Democratic and Republican Parties]. This is precisely why her organizing activities are correctly and succinctly referred to as the \u201cPower To The People\u201d Campaign. It is about building, supporting, and nurturing\u00a0the people\u2019s struggle<\/em>,\u00a0not<\/em> corporately blood-sucking them in the name of some kind of illusively abstract and ultimately dangerous feel-good rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Indeed, \u201cSister Cynthia McKinney is the ONLY one who seriously and fundamentally addresses our issues \u2013 the concerns of Black America: self determination, reparations,\u00a0judicial equality, police brutality, COINTELPRO, political prisoners, employment, decent housing, environmental justice, educational parity, and the absolute end to unjust wars at home and abroad\u2026She is one of\u00a0US.<\/em> She does not pretend that the legacy of slavery is in the past. She makes it clear that jobs, justice and equality\u00a0are more important than ever before<\/em>. She is\u00a0bold<\/em>\u00a0about the fact that Black Liberation is a very important and serious ongoing struggle in the United States of America\u2026By supporting Cynthia,\u00a0we support ourselves and our humanity<\/em>\u2026\u201d [Reference:\u00a0An Open Letter Re Cynthia McKinney To Our Politically Conscious Sisters And Brothers Of Black\u00a0America<\/em><\/a>].<\/p>\n

Cynthia McKinney is\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0a member of the posh millionaire or billionaire clubs as are the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Presidential candidates of the Democratic and Republican Parties [i.e. the Republicrats]. Cynthia is no smooth talking, half-stepping, opportunist. Cynthia is\u00a0for-real<\/em>, which is yet another reason why this former U.S. Congresswoman from\u00a0Georgia, boldly and\u00a0courageously<\/em>\u00a0left the politically bankrupt Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

This is May, 2008; and it was in this very month in the year 1925 that our beloved warrior and Black prince – Malcolm X was born.\u00a0Despite every effort by the 21st Century Amerikkkan power structure to distort and sanitize the words of Brother Malcolm, the fact is that Malcolm X was uncompromising in the struggle for justice and Black Liberation. It would have been utterly unthinkable for Brother Malcolm to have figuratively thrown Rev. Jeremiah Wright\u00a0under<\/em>\u00a0the proverbial bus and then backed up to run over him again and again at the behest of the racist U.S. corporate, military, and prison industrial apparatus. As Malcolm X repeatedly said, \u201cNo sell outs!\u201d Brother Malcolm made it crystal clear that the Democratic and Republican Parties [i.e. the Republicrats] are \u201cfoxes and wolves.\u201d Their ultimate objective is to keep Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and yes even White peoples –\u00a0dis<\/em><\/strong>empowered while pretending to be doing the opposite. Their\u00a0actual<\/em> masters are the elite of the corporate \/ military \/ prison apparatus.<\/p>\n

Just as Malcolm X was and remains, in the words of the late, great Ossie Davis, \u201cOur own shining Black prince;\u201d so it is that we have been blessed to currently have our own shining Black princess in the person of Cynthia McKinney. She is of us, and we of her.<\/p>\n

The \u201cPower To The People\u201d Campaign is about\u00a0all<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0of us. Our love and respect for Malcolm X, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Assata Shakur, Martin Luther King, Jr., Huey P. Newton and so very many others; is alive and well in the person Cynthia McKinney and the \u201cPower To The People\u201d Campaign.<\/p>\n

This is not only about the\u00a0United States of America. This is about the peoples of the entire world. This is about our Mother Earth. This is about political, social, and economic justice in South and Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia,\u00a0Mexico, and every nook and cranny on this planet. This is about\u00a0US<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 the people – everywhere.<\/p>\n

Get involved\u00a0now<\/em>. Make it real! Onward then\u2026. Let\u2019s get busy.<\/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 278 of The Black Commentator on May 22, 2008<\/a>
Republished in allthingscynthiamckinney.com on May 22, 2008<\/a>
Listed in the Power to the People Committee Cynthia McKinney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}