Throughout recorded history, empires have resorted to utilizing surrogates of one kind or another to do their bidding. The 21st century U.S. Empire is no different in this regard.

Barack Obama is presently the surrogate emperor of and to the U.S. Empire, and his task is to neutralize and destroy, as much as possible, any and all critical thought and serious political consciousness on the part of Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples in this nation. As the Wall Street barons and banksters of the U.S. corporate / military apparatus shrewdly and correctly observed, prior to overwhelmingly supporting then candidate Barack Obama for the U.S. Presidency, the masses of people were yearning for change. What better way to maintain the existing order of the empire than to give them fake change in the person of Barack Obama?! What better way to continue the stranglehold by the corporate vampires around the necks of the people than to give the appearance of loosening their hold only to get an even tighter grip in the person of Barack Obama?!

In just under six months, with the ascendancy of Barack Obama to the U.S. Presidency, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been widened even as Obama seeks approximately 100 billion more dollars for these reprehensible, despicable and ultimately unwinnable wars. Nevertheless, at this time when a genuine, focused, and strong peace movement in this nation is needed more than ever, it has become a pathetic whimpering shadow of itself at this point under the Obama presidency.

Instead of being much needed critical thinkers and active citizens in this so-called U.S. democracy under the Obama presidency, far too many have degenerated into being unthinking fans of this double-speaking, pro-apartheid Zionist, war-mongering, Wall Street-supported Barack Obama. Meanwhile, precious time is slipping away nationally and globally.

As Mr. Double-speak, U.S. President Barack Obama reverses and reneges on campaign promise after campaign promise, while the ever-subservient and compliant corporate media attempts to cover for him by referring to those promises to the people as mere “campaign rhetoric” from the past, it is time for critical thinkers to organize and remind one another that Obama is more of the same - only worse.

Obama, in fact, does not support universal single-payer health care. Obama is, in fact, spreading and expanding the bloody U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama is anything but transparent on the subject of torture. Obama is not in support of prosecuting the war criminals of his predecessor’s regime and is busily proceeding down the very same disgusting path. Despite his double-speak rhetoric, Obama is a smooth-talking systemic clone endowed with a slightly darker pigmentation and a better acting ability than his predecessor. The times today are very, very dangerous and it is incumbent upon us all to fight against slipping into lethargy and persist in critical thinking and uncompromising, principled activism.

We must utterly refuse to be neutralized by the “worm tongue” rhetoric of Barack Obama and his administration. It’s time for people in this nation Black, Brown, White, Red, and Yellow to wake up and get busy! We must not let the dream be “deferred” yet again. Make it more than a “dream.” Struggle to regain our consciousness and make it a reality.

Onward my brothers and sisters! Onward…

BlackCommentator.com 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. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. 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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