{"id":3234,"date":"2010-02-04T07:26:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2014-04-13T10:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T16:13:41","slug":"plantation-america-and-obamas-ongoing-treachery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/plantation-america-and-obamas-ongoing-treachery\/","title":{"rendered":"Plantation \u2018America\u2019 and Obama\u2019s Ongoing Treachery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published in Issue 361 of The Black Commentator on February 4, 2010<br \/>\nRepublished in the <a title=\"Plantation \u2018America\u2019 and Obama\u2019s Ongoing Treachery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistviewpoint.org\/marapr_10\/marapr_10_07.html\" target=\"_blank\">March\/April<\/a> Vol. 10, No. 2 Issue of\u00a0Socialist Viewpoint magazine (image below)<\/p>\n<p>By Larry Pinkney<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThe most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2014Steven Biko<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those who trust in myth are always ultimately betrayed by the fruition of reality.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. president Barack Obama is the zenith of the insipid embodiment of the actualization of 21st century plantation politics. His actions belie his dazzling, yet insidiously treacherous, displays of rhetorical adroitness. Not only are we Black people in the U.S. and elsewhere the victims of his treachery, but disenfranchised people of all colors are on the proverbial chopping block economically and politically, as he faithfully serves the\u00a0de facto interests of his corporate\/military puppet masters.<\/p>\n<p>It is apparently not enough that the U. S. corporate\/military elite (with the complicity of the ever-willing corporate media) have successfully installed Barack Obama as their \u201cpotent weapon,\u201d but there are a plethora of additional bourgeois biologically black mental mulattos ranging from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, to the \u201cthose cops must not know who I am scholar\u201d Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (to name but a few) who eagerly and shamefully assist Barack Obama in his subterfuge and economic and political treachery against the disenfranchised masses of everyday people throughout this nation and world.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that the United States of America is, economically and politically, one gigantic corporate\/military plantation. It is a corporate plutocracy wherein the people have been, and are, constantly being relegated to the role of\u00a0de facto\u00a0slaves in subordination to the corporate\/military elite. Just as during the period of blatant, physical, black slave plantations in this nation, so it is today that the present 21st century hustle is to sophisticate and rebrand this very real slavery; this time in the name of fake \u201cchange\u201d and unrealistic, debilitating, non-actualized \u201chope\u201d under the misguidance of this bourgeois mental mulatto, descendant of slave holders, Barack Obama. Though the masses of everyday Black, Brown, and Red peoples continue to be quite clearly on the very bottom rung of this present economic and political plantation, we are by no means the only slaves on this plantation. Indeed disenfranchised people of all colors are now its slaves, and the same old, well rehearsed game of divide-and-conquer is being methodically and systematically employed by the corporate\/military elite of Whites and Blacks, etc. on Plantation \u201cAmerica.\u201d Make no mistake about this!<\/p>\n<p>As Barack Obama continues to shamelessly lie to the people of this nation and world, his political policies and actions serve to, in fact irreparably worsen, the predicament of everyday people!<\/p>\n<p>As the prolific writer Stephen Lendman so correctly and precisely wrote concerning Barack Obama, in his recent article titled, \u201cObama\u2019s Outreach to Americans: Empty Rhetoric, Business As Usual\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis [Obama\u2019s] top political, economic and national security officials are former administration members\u2014from Wall Street, the military, and other key power centers for continuity, not promised change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He presides over a bogus democracy under a homeland police state apparatus, embraces torture and political persecution like his predecessor, and continues unbridled militarism, imperial wars, and a shocking disregard for the law.<\/p>\n<p>A January 27 Dana Priest\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0article revealed a secret Obama \u201chit list,\u201d the same policy George Bush authorized to kill U.S. citizens abroad claimed to be supporting terrorism \u201cagainst the United States or U.S. interests,\u201d whether or not it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>He looted the federal treasury for Wall Street, plans new monetary measures to control the world\u2019s money, and favors handouts to the rich at the expense of beneficial social change.<\/p>\n<p>He embraces the same Bush administration policies, targets dissenters, Muslims, Latino immigrants, environmental and animal rights activists, and lawyers who defend them too vigorously.<\/p>\n<p>He spies illegally on Americans, destroyed decades of hard won labor rights, wants public education privatized as another business profit center, and scorns democracy in favor of hard-line rule.<\/p>\n<p>He backs rationing healthcare, destroying Medicare, and enriching insurers, drug companies and large hospital chains. He wants legislation passed to empower agribusiness, let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by raising energy costs, and create a speculative bonanza for Wall Street with a new carbon trading derivatives scheme.<\/p>\n<p>He wants all Americans monitored with a national ID card, favors preventive detention for uncharged detainees, and opposes protection for whistleblowers and journalists to protect their identity.<\/p>\n<p>He ignores growing poverty, hunger and homelessness, refuses help for budget-strapped states, and chooses rhetoric, theater, deceit and cynicism, not progressive change to address a national emergency.<\/p>\n<p>As if the above indictments are not already horrible enough, Obama also knows that he is pumping at least fifty billion dollars in subsidies into the financial chests of the corporate nuclear industry\u2019s elite, while he simultaneously rhetorically misleads the everyday people with talk of supposedly backing away from continuing and expanding dangerous nuclear power. Obama knows all of these things described above. Do you?<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned is the enormously dangerous and real Barack Obama, versus the mythical one who is adorned and adored by the vast majority of the corporate media.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, no one should be shocked at Obama\u2019s appointment of George \u201cthe Butcher\u201d Bush and Bill \u201cthe Sleaze\u201d Clinton to head the actual corporate\/military occupation of the earthquake devastated Haiti, masquerading under the cynical guise of \u201chumanitarian aid.\u201d After all, subterfuge is Obama\u2019s game. It always has been.<\/p>\n<p>These ongoing, daily horrors are being methodically carried out [virtually in plain view] by the Obama\/Biden\/Rahm Emanuel clique against Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples in this nation and throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>While liberals, so-called \u201cprogressives,\u201d pretend-leftists, and bourgeois biologically black mental mulattos continue to make endless excuses for this pro apartheid Zionist Obama\/Biden\/Rahm Emanuel regime, we must never, not even for an instant, chew on or swallow the constant deception, rhetoric, subterfuge, and disinformation by said administration. Enough is really enough!<\/p>\n<p>It is we, and only we the people, who can and must free ourselves from this mental and concomitant economic and political manipulation and bondage in and on Plantation \u201cAmerica.\u201d Time to wake up and get off the plantation!<\/p>\n<p>Onward now sisters and brothers. Onward!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/blackcommentator.com\/\">BlackCommentator.com<\/a>, February 4, 2010<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3235\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2010_March_April-Vol.-10-No.-2_Socialist_Viewpoint.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3235\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3235 \" title=\"2010_March_April Vol. 10 No. 2_Socialist_Viewpoint\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2010_March_April-Vol.-10-No.-2_Socialist_Viewpoint.jpg\" alt=\"Article image includes Carlos Latuff's political cartoon depiction of Larry Pinkney\" width=\"595\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2010_March_April-Vol.-10-No.-2_Socialist_Viewpoint.jpg 595w, http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2010_March_April-Vol.-10-No.-2_Socialist_Viewpoint-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Larry Pinkney&#8217;s article in the March\/April Issue of Socialist Viewpoint. Political cartoon by Brazilian political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff.<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/Larry%20Pinkney\/bio.htm\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"400px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in Issue 361 of The Black Commentator on February 4, 2010<br \/> Republished in the <a title=\"Plantation \u2018America\u2019 and Obama\u2019s Ongoing Treachery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistviewpoint.org\/marapr_10\/marapr_10_07.html\" target=\"_blank\">March\/April<\/a> Vol. 10, No. 2 Issue of\u00a0Socialist Viewpoint magazine (image below)<\/p>\n<p>By Larry Pinkney<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.\u201d<br \/> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,32,11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234"}],"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=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}