{"id":3530,"date":"2010-06-24T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2014-07-03T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:51:50","slug":"control-the-narrative-and-win-the-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/control-the-narrative-and-win-the-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Control the Narrative and Win the Struggle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in\u00a0Issue 381 of The Black Commentator on\u00a0June 24, 2010<\/a>
\nRepublished in Fubar and Grill on June 24, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Like most politicians in this nation, the articulate Barack Obama is a pathological liar – and has thus far been, with the complicity of the corporate media, much more effective at it than any other politician.<\/p>\n

The story [i.e. the narrative] of \u2018America\u2019 is replete with myth, lies, and more lies. In fact, the bigger the lie, the more it is propagated as truth. Corporate thieves and murderers are depicted as financial geniuses and self-made men. This however, did not begin in the 21st century, but rather with the very inception of the\u00a0United States itself.<\/p>\n

The wealthy elite of this nation have always controlled the narrative of what is true and what is not true. The stories of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples have consistently been twisted and distorted to serve the interests of the wealthy elite, just as it is today.<\/p>\n

Just as Barack Obama is presently depicted by most of the corporate media as the hapless victim<\/em>\u00a0of British Petroleum and other multi-national blood-sucking corporations, when in fact he is their\u00a0facilitator and front man<\/em>; so it is that the bigger the lie,\u00a0the more<\/em>\u00a0it is propagated as truth. We everyday people are not controlling our own story, our own narrative; the corporate media is<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Precisely the same scenario is accurate with respect to the government and corporate media\u2019s complicity in duping the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0populace on the international level. Remember when then U.S. President Lyndon Johnson told his\u00a0big lie<\/em>\u00a0regarding the so-called \u2018Gulf of Tonkin incident,\u2019 when the U.S. populace was informed that a U.S. navy ship had been attacked in international waters by North Vietnam, thus facilitating an even deeper involvement by the U.S. corporate \/ military complex in the Vietnam war? Remember the then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell\u2019s\u00a0big lie<\/em>\u00a0to the United Nations about there being \u2018weapons of mass destruction\u2019 in Iraq? Now we have Barack Obama\u00a0lying his posterior off<\/em>\u00a0about, among other things, the government \/ corporate spawned atrocity in the\u00a0Gulf of Mexico. The horrible ecological and economic affects of this\u00a0Gulf of Mexico atrocity are both national and<\/em> global, and will ultimately<\/em>\u00a0range into the trillions of dollars over a period of decades. But the government and corporate media narrative is, as always, about omission, disinformation, and endless lies.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama and his ilk are the proverbial foxes eating the chickens while claiming to guard them. The corporate government stories [i.e. narrative] must be rejected and replaced by the narrative of everyday people.<\/p>\n

Hey folks! The moon is not made of cheese, there is no tooth fairy, and real<\/em>\u00a0\u201cchange we can believe in\u201d begins with everyday people controlling and telling our own stories, our own narrative.<\/p>\n

The corporate media comes in many guises. For example, it is both disgusting and pathetically comical how the so-called\u00a0Public<\/em>\u00a0Broadcasting System [PBS], after the Gulf of Mexico atrocity, dropped its open sponsorship by British Petroleum, but now unabashedly touts the corporate sponsorship of yet another multi-national oil giant – Chevron Corporation. Thus, to expect uncensored and informative \u201cnews\u201d and analysis from PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, or any of the other corporate-backed media outlets (be they television or print media), is\u00a0akin to believing in the tooth fairy<\/em>. It is both delusion and illusion, and it is a recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n

The struggle of everyday people must be for\u00a0real and total systemic change<\/em>. Corporate domination, unemployment, homelessness, wars, mass incarceration, privatization of public education, and environmental degradation, etc. will never be changed by those,\u00a0who in reality, profit<\/em>\u00a0from them, no matter what narrative they propagate for us to consume and believe.<\/p>\n

Though it will not be easy, we\u00a0can<\/em>\u00a0win this struggle! Build and support truly alternative media. Create\u00a0your own<\/em>\u00a0everyday people\u2019s media and spread it far and wide.\u00a0Take back your minds<\/em>\u00a0from the corporate media!\u00a0Critically analyze<\/em>\u00a0what you see, read, or hear. Stop being diverted by the non-issues and lies of the government and its corporate media.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0can<\/em>\u00a0do this. We\u00a0must<\/em>\u00a0do this. Onward my sisters and brothers! Onward!<\/p>\n

\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n