The
most cynical and despicable act against people in pain is to offer
them false �hope� and phony �change� while all the
while steadily crushing their needs and aspirations under the guise
of a genuine concern for them. There is an African proverb which
says: �Beware of the naked man who offers you clothes.� The �naked�
hypocrisy and constant lies to the people of this nation and world,
by those who actually benefit from the political and economic pain
of the people, is totally unacceptable and devoid of legitimacy.
The
terrible pain---of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq,
Pakistan, and elsewhere, coupled with joblessness, homelessness,
no universal single payer health care, growing incarceration, the
privatization of public education, the gutting of the U.S. Constitution
via the �Patriot Act� and �Rendition,� the pathetic, scurvy and
self-serving corporate media, the smashing of labor unions and worker�s
rights, the insatiable corporate greed and domination, and the degradation
& depletion of the environment of this nation and planet Earth�are
all interconnected. The masses of just plain ordinary,
everyday Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow people in this nation
are the victims of the afore going pain and manipulation.
The
Democratic Party foxes and the Republican Party wolves,
along with their assorted allies, are busily hustling and pimping
the people�playing upon their excruciating pain and fears. This
is deliberate, not coincidental.
While
the liberals and other allies of the Democratic Party foxes harp
on the racism of the unapologetic right wing allies of the Republican
Party wolves, none of them offer viable suggestions
and alternatives to the systemic pimping of the people. This,
despite the fact that they know full well that the only real
solution to this systemic pimping of the people�s pain is to make
a complete break with and from the Democrats and Republicans
[i.e. the Republicrats]; and to build serious third parties in this
so-called democracy.
It
is singularly absurd to expect (or have expected) that the
installment of the corporate / military complex�s� puppet-clone
Barack Obama, as President of this nation, would have brought about
an end to racism, militarism, and economic exploitation. Indeed,
the history of capitalist / corporate exploitation shows us that
it is quite the contrary that should have been expected.
Thus, only highlighting the blatantly racist acts,
for example, on the part of certain �tea-bagger� lunatics merely
begs the question and acts as a cynical diversion
from the treachery of both the Democratic Party foxes
and the Republican Party wolves. The everyday people of all
colors in this nation need alternatives and suggestions for real
systemic change, not cynical diversion that plays
upon their pains and fears, and serves as a cover for the
continuing treachery against them by Barack Obama and the Democratic
Party foxes. The Democratic Party foxes, the Republican Party wolves,
and their respective corporate, organizational, and individual allies
are systemic gate keepers, whose goal is to perpetuate this
corrupt and morally bankrupt political system of hypocrisy, economic
exploitation, and oppression.
My
three immediately previous columns in The Black Commentator offered
some specific suggestions as to how we might organize for real
systemic change on the local and national levels in this nation.
We are only powerless for as long as we allow ourselves
to be. We are the people, and collectively we must
bring about an end to the pimping of the people�s pain!
There
is much to be accomplished! Onward my 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
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