For those who swallowed the blue pill of the corporate-brand Obama illusion, deception, and pathetic emaciation: Can you hear me now?!

Is it oily enough for you yet? Are you happy in the fires of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan? Are you enjoying this veneer of illusion and deception while the reality of corporate domination, wars, joblessness, and home foreclosures bite your posteriors?

Can you hear me now?! Do you feel me?! Have you been deceived and emaciated enough yet?!

So many who were crying with tears of blind euphoric joy in November of 2008, at Barack Obama’s climb to the pinnacle of power are now crying with tears of everyday pain at their increasingly obvious betrayal.

Sing it now little children! Sing your praises to ‘massah’ Obama - that most articulate conjurer of conjurers! Sing your praises to that corporate-brand Obama blue. Sing! For the time is at hand when the corporate-brand Obama blue pill has become the very blues of the people! Did you not see the proverbial handwriting on the wall?!

Carry on in your delusion and insanity! Carry on, as bit by bit, every hope and dream that you had, is rapidly transformed into the pressing horror of reality. Think not of what might have been, but rather of what is! For reality can merely be denied but never abated.

Laugh with the foxy, clever-tongued emperor, while he fiddles in the White House as the everyday people of this nation and globe burn in the agony of shock and despair. Sing your praises and cry out “Peace, Peace!!” But there is no peace! There is only illusion, deceit, and betrayal.

Oh yes! You are in the Obama Matrix now, and it is unforgiving, unrelenting, and deviously inhuman. Yes! It is that Obama “hope and change” illusion that the corporate media sold to you, and you so eagerly bought!

Nevertheless, defend your corporate / military emperor, and deny reality. For alas! There are blue pills galore, even as everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples daily sink ever deeper into the very depths of political, economic, and social servitude.

But should you finally awaken from your illusion, heed the poignant and prophetic words of Steven Biko: “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” Can you hear me now?! Can you feel me?!

Onward my sisters and brothers! Onward! For this ongoing intensified struggle has only just begun! Onward for total systemic change!!!

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.