Published in Issue 488 of The Black Commentator on October 4, 2012
\nBy Larry Pinkney<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fascists already have power. The point is that some way must be found to expose\u00a0them and combat them. An\u00a0electoral\u00a0choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die. The holder of so called public office is always merely an extension of the hated ruling class. It is to our benefit that this person be\u00a0openly\u00a0hostile, despotic, and unreasoning.\u201d\u2013George L.\u00a0Jackson<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In the past four years, the United States has (and in most cases is continuing to) intensely bombed to smithereens the peoples of Libya (north Africa), Somalia (east Africa), Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan,\u00a0etc<\/span>. with Predator-drone missiles and\/or aircraft bombing. Bits of body parts of babies, children, women, and men spread across these lands. This is the \u201chope and change\u201d for which many of you voted, not to mention the U.S. Gulag of torture and imprisonment – called\u00a0Guantanamo\u00a0– that remains opened and functioning. This is U.S.\u00a0\u2018democracy\u2019 in action.\u00a0Can you hear the screams<\/span>\u00a0of humanity or do you even care?! Pay attention! Listen to their screams!<\/p>\n
This is the Obama death. Death to any and all who oppose the corporate-controlled U.S. Empire!<\/p>\n
Thanks goes to the\u00a0mis<\/span>-leadership of so many so-called \u2018progressives\u2019 and those who claim to be on the \u2018left\u2019 in this nation who\u00a0continue<\/span>\u00a0to support this warmongering, predator-drone president. It doesn\u2019t matter to them, even as they write their fancy books and use their complex and shallow rhetoric to subtlety rationalize murder and empire in the very name of opposing it! After all, Barack Obama is black, isn\u2019t he? That makes it all okay, right? Wrong!<\/p>\n
Notwithstanding the draconian and unconstitutional NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), \u2018Kill List,\u2019 police-state\u00a0in this nation<\/span>\u00a0itself; this land has descended into the worst state of affairs in its history. But it\u2019s okay because Obama is president. Right? Wrong!!!!<\/p>\n
Thanks to the blind\u00a0color fixation<\/span>\u00a0in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0on the part of blacks and non-blacks alike, \u2018America\u2019 has\u00a0intensified<\/span>\u00a0in being the monster of the entire world – both internally and externally. But what the hell do you care?! Think about it.<\/p>\n
Those of you who support the Obama brand – this neo-liberal fascist – have blood all over your hands. There is absolutely no such thing as the \u2018lesser of the evils,\u2019 as evil abounds in the smooth rhetoric of Barack Obama\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0that of Mitt Romney. But you have been so dumbed-down that you don\u2019t even get it, do you?<\/p>\n
Black America wake up!!! Do not cast your lot with this filthy, hypocritical, corrupt system. Think of your own and humanity and that of the people of Mother Earth! Perhaps, this plea will overwhelmingly fall upon deaf ears. Nevertheless,\u00a0it has been made<\/span>. WE MUST GET THIS BLOOD OFF OUR HANDS!<\/p>\n
Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Onward, then, my sisters and brothers! Onward!<\/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 488 of The Black Commentator on October 4, 2012
By Larry Pinkney<\/p>\n\u201cThe fascists already have power. The point is that some way must be found to expose\u00a0them and combat them. An\u00a0electoral\u00a0choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die. The holder of so called public […]<\/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":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}