{"id":2018,"date":"2008-06-19T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2013-04-02T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T17:55:14","slug":"if-you-support-the-pro-apartheid-zionist-barack-obama-stop-complaining-about-racism-or-economic-exploitation-here-and-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/if-you-support-the-pro-apartheid-zionist-barack-obama-stop-complaining-about-racism-or-economic-exploitation-here-and-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Support the Pro Apartheid Zionist Barack Obama: Stop Complaining About Racism Or Economic Exploitation Here and Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Issue 282 of The Black Commentator on June 19, 2008<\/a>
\nBy Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/p>\n

History does\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0repeat itself. Rather, it is\u00a0people who repeat history<\/em>, especially when we do not\u00a0learn<\/em>\u00a0from the lessons of history.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0mass media of\u00a0dis<\/em>information (and its allies in the corporate, military, and prison apparatus) is busily going about the business of successfully infecting many, including even heretofore apparently critically\u00a0thinking<\/em> people in this nation, with an ultimately fatal disease whose symptoms include denial, arrogance, and mindless blissfulness. The U.S. Empire in the year 2008, going into 2009, is about what it has always been about: deceit, hypocrisy, and domination. The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0mass media of disinformation seeks to ensure that we do not learn from the lessons of history.<\/p>\n

Now, there is a man who would be the colored Emperor of the de facto U.S. Empire; Barack Obama, the most singularly dangerous threat to Black America, and the planet as a whole.\u00a0Masquerading as a man of peace when in fact he is a corporate \/ military representative of war.\u00a0The same man who has thrown Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his entire church, and the Palestinian peoples under the crushing wheels of the proverbial bus of political expediency and opportunism. No critically thinking person of good will, be they Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, or White should be surprised when this man sets out to sacrifice us on his alter of political opportunism and hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, this Wall Street-backed, pro-apartheid Zionist Barack Obama could not successfully carry out his aims without the complicity of neo fascist 21st Century white so-called liberals \/ progressives such as media personality Amy Goodman and company, who for over a year now have been among his active cheer leaders. These are people, who like certain French collaborators with the Nazis in occupied Paris of the 1940s, think they can eat their cake and have it too. These are people who always stop short of clearly and concisely calling for what is really needed in the U.S.; and that is total and complete\u00a0systemic<\/em>\u00a0change: a people\u2019s revolution. These are people who clack on and on about certain select injustices in the U.S. and elsewhere while reveling in their own color and class privilege and simultaneously being undeservedly revered by some as politically \u201cprogressive figures.\u201d In describing these kinds of persons the author, Dr. Eric Larsen, correctly describes them by writing: \u201cProgressives like Amy Goodman hide behind the good they do in order to escape censure for the bad\u2026They can dodge issues, twist issues, simplify issues, and ignore issues\u2026\u201d which of course is precisely what they do. [Reference the essays titled,\u00a0Notes\u00a0From A\u00a0Dying Nation<\/em> and\u00a0Amy Goodman: A Mind Prostituted<\/em>\u00a0by Eric Larsen]. Accompanying these above mentioned collaborators with the Empire are unfortunately a group of so-called people of color, who are in fact gate keepers for the U.S. Empire whose job it is to ensure the\u00a0continuation<\/em>\u00a0of the corporate, cynically racist, capitalist system under the guise of being progressive or even leftist. This is what I refer to as\u00a0\u2018The Spook Who Sat Beside\u00a0The\u00a0Door\u2019<\/em>\u00a0in reverse<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not only is it a contradiction in terms to support the pro-apartheid Zionist, corporate and militarily backed Barack Obama (or any other Democratic or Republican Party candidate) while simultaneously claiming to be of all things a leftist; it is the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty. One cannot simultaneously support both the empire and those that the empire oppresses and represses. One is either in support of the U.S. Empire or in opposition to it – plain and simple. In this there is no middle passage, no middle ground,\u00a0no\u00a0nonsense. I find myself in agreement with\u00a0Mumia\u00a0Abu-Jamal, when he concluded his June 5, 2008, column titled, \u2018Is Obama\u2019s Victory Ours?,\u2019<\/em>\u00a0by stating, \u201c\u2019Real change that you could believe in\u2019 would be an end to Empire, and an end to wars for corporate greed, not just the change of the shade of the political managers\u2026\u201d This of course is obvious, but is nonetheless being studiously\u00a0ignored<\/em>\u00a0by those so-called progressives and leftists who have opportunistically chosen to collaborate with the Empire while at the same time asserting that they somehow oppose its despicable practices against oppressed peoples both inside of the\u00a0United States\u00a0and around the world. What rubbish!<\/p>\n

Former U.S. Senator and author James G.\u00a0Abourezk\u00a0makes it chilling clear in his recent article titled,\u00a0\u2018Deadly Fallout From Obama\u2019s Groveling Before Israel Lobby,\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 how dangerous kowtowing to apartheid Zionism is to the entire planet. Nevertheless, this is precisely what the Republicrats [i.e. the Democrats and Republicans] are doing at the expense of the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0population and the whole world. Thinking people must utterly and completely reject the Republicrats and all of their dangerous baggage. [Reference \u00a0http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/abourezk06102008.html<\/a>]<\/p>\n

It is apparent that an increasing amount of people are beginning to wake up as also demonstrated by the recent article titled,\u00a0\u2018Obama and McCain: Two Sides of the Same Coin\u2019<\/em> by Timothy V.\u00a0Gatto\u00a0[http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/gatto100608.htm<\/a>]. Nonetheless, is it too few and too late? The struggle against the Empire is after all a protracted one. So we must persevere.<\/p>\n

Those so-called progressives and or leftists who support Barack Obama or John McCain can hardly be trusted when they complain of racism, police brutality, economic and social inequality, unending war, and subterfuge of every kind; for these two men represent the continuation of the Empire – which is of course the continuation of\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0of the aforementioned horrors. It\u2019s time to be honest with ourselves and each other.<\/p>\n

The belligerent saber rattling by both Barack Obama and John McCain against\u00a0Iran, Cuba, the Palestinians,\u00a0Venezuela, and a virtually endless list of other nations is the same old recipe for endless war abroad and economic misery and inequality for people inside the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Neither of these candidates stand for or\u00a0represent peace or justice at home or abroad.<\/p>\n

There\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0a real, viable, and incredible alternative to this madness – in the person of Cynthia McKinney and the \u201cPower\u00a0To The\u00a0People\u201d Campaign. But of course it means hard work. It means organizing for\u00a0systemic<\/em> change\u00a0outside<\/em>\u00a0of the Democratic and Republican Parties. It means struggling for a nation and world devoid of corporate and military domination. It means saying no to those who continually pimp the hopes and dreams of the majority of people in the\u00a0United States\u00a0and throughout the world. The masses of Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and White peoples truly deserve this kind of a world but we will have to seriously and collectively struggle to obtain it.<\/p>\n

Onward then,\u00a0now<\/em>\u00a0and in the future\u2026<\/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 282 of The Black Commentator on June 19, 2008<\/a>
By Larry Pinkney<\/p>\n

History does\u00a0not\u00a0repeat itself. Rather, it is\u00a0people who repeat history, especially when we do not\u00a0learn\u00a0from the lessons of history.<\/p>\n

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