{"id":728,"date":"2011-04-11T04:13:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T04:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2012-11-16T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T17:04:07","slug":"bho-les-noirs-et-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/bho-les-noirs-et-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"BHO, les Noirs et 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portions of Larry Pinkney’s\u00a0Cornel West and other such political opportunists <\/em><\/strong>article (Intrepid Report, April 8, 2011) where excerpted in a French commentary published in\u00a0dedefensa.org <\/em>(France)\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0April 11, 2011:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-bho_les_noirs_et_2012_11_04_2011.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Dans la strat\u00e9gie de r\u00e9\u00e9lection de l\u2019habile BHO, les Noirs, \u2013 pardon, la communaut\u00e9 africaine-am\u00e9ricaine, \u2013 sont per\u00e7us comme quasiment un \u201c\u00e9lectorat captif\u201d. Il ne doit pas faire de doute qu\u2019ils voteront en masse pour le pr\u00e9sident africain-am\u00e9ricain. Mais est-ce bien s\u00fbr\u00a0? N\u2019est-ce pas faire une analyse empreinte de racisme que de pr\u00e9juger qu\u2019on votera pour un candidat \u00e0 cause de la couleur de sa peau et sans autre consid\u00e9ration, alors que l\u2019\u00e9lection de 2008 de BHO est cens\u00e9e nous avoir prouv\u00e9 que, dans l\u2019American Dream<\/em>\u00a0version postmodernis\u00e9e, le racisme n\u2019a plus sa place\u00a0?<\/p>\n

Nous avons donn\u00e9 un petit \u00e9cho \u00e0 une\u00a0d\u00e9claration<\/a>\u00a0du professeur de Princeton, africain-am\u00e9ricain, Cornel West. Voici maintenant une vigoureuse d\u00e9nonciation de cette d\u00e9claration, ou plut\u00f4t du personnage qu\u2019est West, par un autre Africain-Am\u00e9ricain, ancien des\u00a0Black Panthers<\/em>\u00a0et dont on peut appr\u00e9cier qu\u2019il a gard\u00e9, lui et \u00e0 la diff\u00e9rence de nombre de ses amis, nombre de ses convictions. Larry Pinkney a refus\u00e9 la r\u00e9cup\u00e9ration par le Syst\u00e8me, et c\u2019est au nom de cette position qui n\u2019est pas courante qu\u2019il lance son attaque contre West (dans\u00a0Intrepid Report<\/em>, le\u00a08 avril 2011<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u00abIn a nauseating display of opportunistic alacrity, Cornel West, while being interviewed by Marina Portnaya of Russia Today television (broadcast on April 4, 2011), had the unmitigated audacity to state that Barack Obama is \u201cbecoming a pawn of big finance and a puppet of big business,\u201d as if he somehow did not realize three years ago that Barack Obama is a \u201cpuppet\u201d and a \u201cpawn,\u201d and he was even then, back in 2008, an obvious Wall Street, corporate-backed \u201cpuppet\u201d and \u201cpawn!\u201d It was Cornell West himself who was among those \u2018intellectuals\u2019 who urged everyday people to \u201ccritically support\u201d Obama, which terminology is, in and of itself, a ridiculous contradiction in terms\u2014something like the the phrases \u2018military intelligence\u2019 or \u2018friendly fire.\u2019 One does not support, \u201ccritically\u201d or otherwise (no matter what his or her color), a person who is a systemic creation and has no de facto motivation other than personal ambition; and it defies all reason to assume that Dr. West, this pontificating, academically well adorned intellectual, was somehow intrinsically unaware of this.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbMoreover, Cornel West, in this Russia Today interview, without so much as flinching, stated that people in this nation in these years under Obama have been \u201csleep walking.\u201d Yet, Dr. West, opportunistically neglected to point out that he himself is among those who are responsible for what he described as the present \u201csleep walking\u201d state of mind of the \u2018American\u2019 people. He needs to clearly and consistently acknowledge his own role in helping to facilitate and bring about this mental\/political stupor [i.e. \u201csleep walking\u201d], and its concomitant dangers and horrors.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbFinally, Dr. West, when asked to explain his heretofore political support for Obama (which was in addition to that of an inordinate and enormous amount of known corporate financial support) gave the utterly pathetic response that many \u201cordinary people gave him [Obama] money too\u201d as if that justified his actions. Dr. West\u2019s response failed to mention that the support for Obama from \u201cordinary people\u201d was, in part, due to his (and others of a similar ilk\u2019s) support for the man that he now conveniently characterizes as having become \u201ca pawn of big finance and a puppet of big business.\u201d What cynical opportunism and manipulation!<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbPerhaps, the so-called \u201cradical democratic awakening in the American Empire\u201d to which Cornel West made reference in the Russia Today interview, will include an \u201cawakening\u201d to how persons such as himself sold out the needs, hopes, and dreams of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people nationally and globally. The severe damage that alleged \u201cleaders,\u201d including Cornel West, have done to everyday people of all colors is not negligible and is extremely reprehensible. There is absolutely no excuse for it. Will Dr. West put his finger in the air again to sense which way the political winds are blowing? Is yet another political flip-flop in the making on the part of Dr. West?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbPolitically conscious people await Cornel West\u2019s acknowledgement and public self-criticism for his dastardly role in facilitating the \u201csleep walking\u201d and the pimping of the pain of the everyday \u2018American\u2019 people. If there is even any possibility for redemption of, or trust for him, he must do this. He cannot pretend that he has stood with the people all along. He has not.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00bbNow that Barack Obama has announced that he will run for re-election with his billion dollar campaign war chest, thereby blatantly checkmating any in the Democrat Party who might have envisioned challenging him, it is, more so than ever before, incumbent upon everyday people to seek, and creatively build, serious alternatives to the death grip of the corporate Democrat and Republican Parties. We must begin at the local level while simultaneously building a national everyday people\u2019s network.<\/em><\/p>\n

La violence du propos est remarquable. Elle marque le degr\u00e9 de m\u00e9pris et de fureur de la frange r\u00e9volutionnaire des Noirs am\u00e9ricains, notamment ceux qui conduisirent les grandes entreprises activistes et extr\u00e9mistes des ann\u00e9es 1960 et 1970, vis-\u00e0-vis des \u201cren\u00e9gats\u201d de leurs mouvements r\u00e9cup\u00e9r\u00e9s par le Syst\u00e8me. (On observe la m\u00eame attitude de la part des tr\u00e8s rares activistes de mai 68 ayant conserv\u00e9 leurs convictions r\u00e9volutionnaires, \u2013 un\u00a0Hocquenghem<\/a>, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 sa mort, \u2013 vis-\u00e0-vis des cohortes (\u201cde cloportes\u201d, serait-on tent\u00e9s d\u2019\u00e9crire pour la rime) de cr\u00e9atures r\u00e9cup\u00e9r\u00e9es par le Syst\u00e8me, type Cohn-Bendit, Kouchner, July & compagnie.) Par ailleurs, les extr\u00e9mistes noirs, issus de l\u2019enseignement de meneurs tels que Malcolm X, avaient parfaitement compris l\u2019impossibilit\u00e9 absolue, quasi transcendantale, de faire le moindre compromis avec le Syst\u00e8me, la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 tout aussi absolue de l\u2019extr\u00e9misme radical, de la rupture, etc. Cela conduit \u00e0 des positions exceptionnellement radicales dans tous les domaines, \u2013 parfois m\u00eame au risque d\u2019erreurs diverses d\u00e9nonc\u00e9es par un Syst\u00e8me dont on sait toute l\u2019innocence virginale en fait d\u2019actions brutales et autres vilenies, \u2013 mais, dans tous les cas, positions radicales t\u00e9moignant certainement d’une coh\u00e9rence responsable de la pens\u00e9e. En attendant, Larry Pinkney a beau jeu de rappeler ce qu\u2019il \u00e9crivait en 2008 \u00e0 propos de Barack Obama\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00abEarly in the year 2008, The Black Commentator published as its cover story a piece titled, Barack Obama and the Euphoria of Madness, which stated in relevant part that, \u201cMany Black Americans and our Brown and Red sisters and brothers, will, I fear, come to be deeply disappointed in Barack Obama, once he demonstrates who he really is. There will be no peace or justice under an Obama presidency, should such come to pass. Even the majority of white Americans, with the exception of the corporate liberals and conservatives, may yet come to realize that Obama\u2019s interests are corporate interests; they are not the needs and interests of everyday people, who represent the overwhelming majority of this nation and the world . . . Now, more than ever, is the time to be critical thinkers, not blind followers.\u201d<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n

D\u2019autre part, il y a l\u2019aspect plus actuel, plus \u201cop\u00e9rationnel\u201d et efficace dirait-on, que refl\u00e8tent ces p\u00e9rip\u00e9ties, \u2013 les d\u00e9clarations de West et la furieuse r\u00e9action de Pinkney. Tout cela indique une certaine fermentation des divers milieux intellectuels africains-am\u00e9ricains vis-\u00e0-vis d\u2019Obama, fermentation domin\u00e9e par le fait manifeste d\u2019une immense d\u00e9ception de ces milieux devant le gouvernement d\u2019Obama. Qu\u2019un West affirme de tels jugements, qui justifient largement la r\u00e9action furieuse de Pinkney, constitue \u00e9galement un signe convaincant de cette fermentation marquant une hostilit\u00e9 grandissante vis-\u00e0-vis d\u2019Obama.<\/p>\n

Que West ait, selon Pinkney, trahi ignominieusement le mouvement radical noir initial constitue \u00e9ventuellement un fait, mais plut\u00f4t pour l\u2019histoire pass\u00e9e que pour le temps pr\u00e9sent\u00a0; que West r\u00e9agisse comme s\u2019il \u00e9tait lui-m\u00eame \u201ctrahi\u201d par Obama, quelle que soit l\u2019impudence de cette position par rapport \u00e0 ce qu\u2019en juge Pinkney, repr\u00e9sente un \u00e9v\u00e9nement d\u2019actualit\u00e9 important, qui montre l\u2019\u00e9volution des intellectuels noirs \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard. Du point de vue de la seule efficacit\u00e9 politique, de l\u2019\u00e9volution politique d\u2019ici 2012 et la candidature Obama, cela peut pr\u00e9sager la possibilit\u00e9 que la communaut\u00e9 africaine-am\u00e9ricaine ne soit plus totalement l\u2019\u201c\u00e9lectorat captif\u201d qu\u2019on signalait plus haut. Ce qui importe pour l\u2019instant est moins la reconstitution d\u2019un mouvement noir radical et antiSyst\u00e8me, que l\u2019apparition d\u2019une opposition noire \u00e0 Obama\u2026 Dans les circonstances g\u00e9n\u00e9rales qu\u2019on conna\u00eet, une telle \u00e9volution est, indirectement mais nettement, une \u00e9volution antiSyst\u00e8me plus r\u00e9aliste et plus efficace que l\u2019\u00e9ventualit\u00e9 de la reconstitution de tel ou tel \u201cmouvement noir radical et antiSyst\u00e8me\u201d. Du point de vue antiSyst\u00e8me, le but principal devrait \u00eatre, pour l\u2019instant, la d\u00e9faite d\u2019un Obama devenu, pour des raisons diverses, une parfaite cr\u00e9ature du Syst\u00e8me. Ce qui se passe au travers de ce qu\u2019on d\u00e9crit ici alimente effectivement une telle possibilit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Mis den ligne le 11 avril 2011 \u00e0 06H19<\/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":"

Portions of Larry Pinkney’s\u00a0Cornel West and other such political opportunists article (Intrepid Report, April 8, 2011) where excerpted in a French commentary published in\u00a0dedefensa.org (France)\u00a0on\u00a0April 11, 2011:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-bho_les_noirs_et_2012_11_04_2011.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Dans la strat\u00e9gie de r\u00e9\u00e9lection de l\u2019habile BHO, les Noirs, \u2013 pardon, la communaut\u00e9 africaine-am\u00e9ricaine, \u2013 sont per\u00e7us comme quasiment un \u201c\u00e9lectorat captif\u201d. Il […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}