{"id":2653,"date":"2013-08-23T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2013-09-02T19:08:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T01:08:38","slug":"dont-you-dare-criticize-barack-obama-after-all-hes-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/dont-you-dare-criticize-barack-obama-after-all-hes-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t you dare criticize Barack Obama\u2014after all he\u2019s \u2018black\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on\u00a0August 23, 2013<\/a>
\nRepublished in thepeoplesvoice.org on August 29, 2013<\/a>
\nBy\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m for truth, no matter who tells it. I\u2019m for justice, no matter who it\u2019s for or against. I\u2019m a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.\u201d\u2014Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat better way to enslave a man than to give him the vote and tell him he\u2019s free.\u201d\u2014Albert Camus<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The very fact that those who lodge legitimate and strong criticism of drone man, \u2018kill list,\u2019 NSA\/CIA\/FBI\/DEA spy master Barack Obama are labeled as being racist is, in itself, perhaps the strongest indicator of just how deeply embedded hypocrisy and racism continue to be in U.S. society.<\/p>\n

Somehow the U.S. constitutional rights to free speech and the free flow of information, etc., allegedly enjoyed by the struggling everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation, have been made null and void, because a colored, partially black man, is in the White House as chief executive and commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces. The reality of this psychological and political enslavement and repression is in fact hypocrisy and so-called political correctness on steroids.<\/p>\n

The pathetic and subservient U.S. corporate-stream media (including MSNBC, FOX, CBS, PBS, NBC, and ABC, etc.), along with the corporate-owned politicians of the Democrat and Republican parties are deliberately stifling free speech and the open and honest free flow of information and informed debate by covertly and\/or overtly playing the color card against the common interests of the everyday people of this nation. Make no mistake about it\u2014they are in fact reinforcing hypocrisy and racism.<\/p>\n

Much of the \u2018leadership\u2019 of so-called \u2018liberals, conservatives, progressives, and leftists\u2019 are also deeply complicit in perpetuating this psychological and political enslavement of the everyday ordinary people of ALL colors in this nation. They are systemic gatekeepers whose mission it is to keep us all on the Democrat and Republican [i.e. Republicrat] party plantation. Moreover, the occasional fake political skirmishes for public consumption, between the \u2018leadership\u2019 of the corporate-owned Democrats and Republicans, also serve precisely this same purpose\u2014to keep us perpetually enslaved on the Democrat and Republican plantation.<\/p>\n

If this nation is to change its course, and survive and thrive, it can no longer be merely about Black power, White power, Brown power, Red Power, or Yellow power. It had better damn well be about Everyday Ordinary PEOPLE power of ALL colors! It\u2019s time to get off of the plantation!<\/p>\n

The peoples of Mother Earth need us and we need them and each other and our precious Mother Earth! In the words of Malcolm X, \u201cI am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.\u201d Like his predecessor in the White House, Barack Obama and his Democrat and Republican minions are war criminals and consummate prevaricators, and should be dealt with accordingly\u2014irrespective of their pigmentation or gender!<\/p>\n

As the late great French philosopher Albert Camus said, \u201cWhat better way to enslave a man than to give him the vote and tell him he\u2019s free.\u201d We men and women in this nation are NOT free! We are more enslaved than ever. Too many of us are unenlightened SLAVES. Slaves to the corporate\/military national and global power elite. As Harriet Tubman said, \u201cI freed a thousand slaves\u2014I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first step towards political, economic, and social freedom is acknowledging our bondage\u2014so that we might throw that bondage off\u2014TOGETHER! This is a long, protracted, hard, and\u00a0absolutely necessary<\/em>\u00a0everyday people\u2019s struggle\u2014but it CAN and MUST be waged in order to be won!<\/p>\n

Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Onward, then, my sisters and brothers. Onward!<\/p>\n