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Nothing could be more enslaving
than so-called “free enterprise.”
The 21st century in America
has ushered in upon this planet a period of grotesque and widening
disparities between not only people of color and whites, but
between the despicably economically rich and the increasingly
economically majority poor.
As Black America and our politically
conscious Red and Brown sisters and brothers throw ourselves
against the onslaught of the biggest pimp of all time, America,
we find ourselves also having to address a plethora of capitalist
insanity. The Bush/Cheney, Clinton, Obama, Giulianilunatics have
taken over the American asylum and are claiming legitimacy
based upon the enforced ignorance of much of the US populace.
Nothing could be more enslaving than this so-called democratic
and racistly hypocritical “free enterprise” madness that America
and her allies are feverishly attempting to heap upon our world.
As if the hanging nooses of
intensifying racism throughout 21st century America are not
enough, monstrous multinational corporations seek to tighten
their grip on the planet by insuring and ensuring that the
cash flow of the billions of earth’s citizens is NOT controlled
by the masses of people who, in fact, provide trillions in
cash flow, inscribed with their blood. In America, universal
health care is strenuously denied and opposed by corporate
America, while jobs and skills of corporate America’s workers
flow OUT of the US, into the so-called third world, at insidiously
seductive rates. This makes a mockery of fair and decent wages,
at the same time maintaining the economic slavery [i.e. dependence]
of both the working poor and the non-working poor in America,
and throughout the world, in favor of the avaricious appetite
of the tiny elite of multinational corporate greed and their
minions.
While many Americans lose
their homes at increasingly staggering rates, the vast majority
of Black, Red, and Brown Americans who never owned their own
homes to begin with, sink ever deeper into the abyss of economic
poverty. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party controlled US Congress
in its turn, and now seeks to push legislation to bail out
the corporations - not their victims. This is America and corporate
capitalism gone stone mad.
While, nationally, school
and library facilities for the masses of the US public essentially
crumble, bloated corporations continue to suck the life blood
out of Americans and other people around the world. This, too,
is America and corporate capitalism gone stone mad. These developments,
nationally and internationally, are not mere coincidences.
They are as deliberate as they are callous.
We of Black America, and our
Brown and Red sisters and brothers, must remember that the
increasingly blatant and despicable white racism in America
and around the world is also no mere coincidence. As world-wide
capitalism crumbles, it will, like a mad dog, reach out to
the four corners of the globe in a desperate and bloody effort
to crush legitimate people’s movements globally. It will fail.
Nevertheless, the price of its failure will be high for the
peoples of the world. This struggle has been and continues
to intensify. Perhaps we Black people in America understand
this, and what is at stake, better than most.
This is a time for exuberance
and determination. We must be and remain determined to expose,
fight, and eradicate the greed and racism of America’s corporate
capitalism, notwithstanding the complicity of certain negrodian
(and other so-called people of color) collaborators. The more
we intensify our struggle, the more limited the time of these
bloodsuckers becomes.
Onward then. Onward to carry
out the task for which we in Black America are especially suited.
Onward, as we strive to keep it real.
BC Editorial Board member, Larry Pinkney is 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. For more about Larry Pinkney
see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century
Activist and Thinker,
by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click
here to read excerpts from the book) Click
here to contact Mr. Pinkney.
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