�It must be possible, however, to describe an initial, a basic dimension of all human ��problems. More precisely, it would seem that all the problems which man faces on the subject of man can be reduced to this one question: �Have I not, because of what I have done or failed to do, contributed to an impoverishment of human reality?�� ��

-Frantz Fanon

No people can be successfully oppressed for any extended period of time without the active complicity of some within their own ranks.

With the installment of Barack Obama� as president of the United States, it has become crystal clear that Black American misleaders and much of its so-called intelligentsia, did not and do not truly desire to systemically change the hypocritical and repressive �American� political system. Rather, simply stated, they want to be the system, at the horrible expense of people of all colors both inside and outside of this nation. This painful reality must no longer be ignored.

These mental mulattos may be biologically black, but they are the real �haters.� They are the de facto haters of the poor, the disenfranchised, and the down trodden. They are the haters of those who speak truth to power. They are about the business of financially enriching themselves to the detriment of the masses of every day people. It is they who act as gate keepers of and for this capitalist system. They can be found as functionaries in both the Democrat and Republican parties who drink from the same corporate / military trough. It is they who use and reinforce the very real, debilitating, and increasing racism in this society as a shield behind which to hide, even as they cynically manipulate Black and other oppressed peoples to their own demise.

We must steadfastly organize against the oppression of any who oppress us, no matter what their pigmentation might be. We must understand that the constant objective of the Democrat[ic] party foxes and the Republican party wolves is precisely the same: To devour [i.e. neutralize and manipulate] us economically, socially, and politically.

The United States of America is, in large measure, a nation of nonreaders and non-critical thinkers. The government and corporate media consistently disseminate disinformation. Indeed, every conceivable form of mindless distraction, obfuscation, and outright lying is used to maintain the myth that this nation is a people�s democracy, when in fact it is a corporate plutocracy. The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling which removed constraints on corporate funding for the already irreparably flawed U.S. elections, is yet additional evidence of who really runs and controls this nation and it is not the every day people; it is corporations who can now openly buy and sell politicians. The pressing needs and desires of the every day people be damned! But where are the masses of people? They are being manipulated and dangerously distracted by the bourgeois ping-pong politics and other antics of the corporate Democrat and Republican parties and its corporate media. This must be addressed and reversed en masse. Time is of the essence.

Moreover, an additional recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling against Black activist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, which ruling essentially ignores the evidence of Mr. Abu-Jamals� innocence and pushes for his execution is not only outrageous; it is yet another signal to every day people of all colors in this nation that justice in the judicial system of the United States stinks and is permeated with injustice, hypocrisy, economic disparity, and racism.

If we ignore these realities and developments, we do so at our own peril. It must be reiterated that time is of the essence!

The U.S. bloodletting in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq is not limited to merely those areas of the world; just as the denial of the right of return by the Palestinian people to their homes and lands in Palestine is by no means limited to them. Remember the U.S. government victims of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans! Remember it well, for then you will grasp what the Obama / G W Bush / Bill Clinton corporate / military gang-- is really about the business of doing at this very moment in Haiti!� Remember the U.S. corporate contract murderers of the Blackwater corporation. Remember that as the infrastructure for jobs, housing, schools and libraries, etc., crumbles in the U.S., and as billions upon endless billions of dollars are spent on perpetual wars abroad which actually serve to foster so-called �terrorism� and protect no one, the avaricious filthy rich get even richer.

Wake up people! Remember your own humanity and who you are!� Remember that we are not merely moving towards a U.S. corporate police state; we are already in it--as the unconstitutional (Obama-Biden-Rham Emanuel supported) so called �Patriot Act� and the amoral and illegal U.S. international kidnapping outrage known as �Rendition,� clearly demonstrate.

Again I implore you: Wake up people! Remember your own humanity and who you are! Remember that it is we the people who hold the key to the liberation of ourselves and others, not the politicians of this deceitful, capitalist, corporate plutocracy!

Onward then sisters and brothers. 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/LehrerNewsHour. 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.