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.
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