The
most insidious and exploitative political and economic
pimps of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow
people are those motivated by personal ambition that
is devoid of principles. These metaphorical vultures,
masquerading as human beings, come in both genders and
in all colors and ethnicities. They are, in fact,
the bane of humanity in this nation and around the world,
and they couch their rhetoric in fake altruism
as they perpetually target the minds of the masses
of everyday people and perpetrate lies, distortions,
and confusion against them.
Among
these perpetrators are biologically black [i.e.
Negrodian] misleaders and their white counterparts
in this nation, whose task it is to ensure that no
real, fundamental, or genuine systemic change comes
to fruition. They are the systemic gate-keepers
who, for example, bemoan racism while simultaneously
supporting a political system whose very
roots are inextricably steeped in racism and economic
exploitation. These are the ones who speak of "hope
and change" even as they urge everyday people to
support the very systemic "leaders" who are
the antithesis of actualized "hope"
and real "change."
These
are the pimping perpetrators: the 21st century
poverty pimps and the de facto purveyors of
political repression at home and perpetual wars abroad.
Their phony rhetoric notwithstanding, these
are the ones who perceive that their vested interests
and personal ambitions are in maintaining this
political system, not in seriously and fundamentally
changing it to serve the political, economic, and social
needs of just plain, ordinary, everyday people. These
systemic gate-keepers are the ones who decry violence
even as they support the very system that perpetuates
the cycle of the violence of corporate hegemony,
poverty, joblessness, police brutality and murders, mass
incarceration, corporate-government subterfuge and hypocrisy
at home - in addition to the environmental degradation
of our Mother Earth - coupled with the largest and most
devastating form of "terrorism" on this planet,
i.e. war. Make no mistake about it, these are the
pimping perpetrators of this nation and world, and we
must recognize them for who and what they really are.
They are accomodationists and traitors to humanity.
Words
and phrases such as "democracy" and so-called
"civil rights" are utterly meaningless
in this nation and abroad without first acquiring
political and economic human rights for everyday
people of all colors. The United
States of America is not a
democracy: it is a corporate plutocracy with a corporate-government
supported by a corporate-stream media that constantly
propagates the shameless sham of a people's democracy
saturated in hypocrisy, omission, and disinformation.
Ironically,
even Thomas Jefferson, the author of the U.S. Declaration
of Independence, put forth three ideas worth giving serious
critical thought. He said: 1) "A society that will
trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both,
and deserve neither." 2) "Every generation
needs a new revolution." and 3) "A democracy
is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent
of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
Notwithstanding
Jefferson's egregious omissions of the odious practice
of Black slavery in the United
States, and the concomitant
despicable genocide of the Indigenous Native peoples and
thievery of their lands, his above quoted statements contain
elements that ring true today. How so? Relinquishing constitutionally
guaranteed freedoms for supposed order or alleged security
(as in the case of the unconstitutional and hideous so-called
"Patriot Act" in this nation today)
does ensure that the people of this nation are
losing (and will continue to lose) "both" liberties
[i.e. freedoms] as well as so-called security.
And it is correct that "every generation needs a
new revolution," though the fact is that any genuine
people's "revolution" is not a single
act, but a dialectical ongoing process requiring
constant vigilance and struggle. Finally, Jefferson's
point on "democracy" being, in essence, "mob
rule" highlights the utter meaninglessness
and absurdity of a so-called "democracy" that
does not ensure political, economic, and social human
rights for all the people.
Nonetheless,
the reality is that the United States does not have even a "fifty-one
percent democracy of the people;" but rather has
a two-percent corporate plutocracy of, for, and
by the corporate/military elite of this nation.
Thus, the sham of U.S. democracy, perpetuated by the corporate Democrat[ic]
and corporate Republican parties, in collusion
with the corporate-stream media and other institutions,
continues unabated. This deliberately-maintained cycle
of insanity, hypocrisy, and sham democracy must be broken
free of by the everyday Black, White, Brown, Red,
and Yellow people of this nation, and ultimately the world.
What is needed is a peopletocracy[pronounced people-tocracy]
of, for, and by ordinary everyday people, not
a sham democracy or a corporate plutocracy.
It
is time to think outside the box with a vision
of and for a fundamentally different society, nation,
and world. It is time to dispense with the corporate
institutional and media narrative of our collective histories.
We, the people, are not commodities and we must refuse
to be the pawns of this "military industrial complex"
[i.e. the corporate/military elite]. It is time
to build many third political parties--separate and
apart from the bloodsucking corporate Democrat and
Republican parties. Ours must be the actualized faith
of the revolutionary and the vision of the farmer
who toils and plants his or her crops with the sure knowledge
that, ultimately, they will grow.
This
is not about merely installing a different President,
Congressperson, or some other politician in this corporate
political system. This is about real systemic change
and it's about consciously exercising and actualizing
a radically [fundamentally] different mind-set. Systemic
corporate election cycles will come and they will go,
but until we become (metaphorically-speaking) revolutionary
farmers with a vision of and for a different and better
crop, this madness will continue.
We
are the guardians of Mother Earth; she does not
belong to Lockheed, Exxon-Mobil, British Petroleum, Boeing,
Monsanto, Caterpillar, General Electric, Xe Services LLC
[aka Blackwater], the pharmaceutical industries, the utility
industries, or any other giant and/or multi-national
corporation. Mother Earth belongs only to herself. She
has graced us with her sustenance and bounty, and in return
we have allowed the corporate/military elite to poison
her streams, gulfs, rivers, oceans, and ozone layer; and
to denigrate and destroy her precious rain forests. Instead
of working in harmony with the land or seriously
utilizing solar and/or wind power here on our Mother Earth,
we have created the Pandora's Box of civilian and military
nuclear nightmare, even as we indiscriminately strip and
mine her irreplaceable mountain tops, etc.
We
have allowed bloodsucking corporations to wreak havoc
with our Mother Earth. WHY? To feed the insatiable
appetite of the greedy few, to the terrible detriment
of the many, and of this priceless planet! The U.S.
corporate government, utilizing the corporate-stream media
of ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and FOX etc., continues
to present everyday people with a litany of lies, distortions,
and omissions about the alleged safety of nuclear
power, the supposed endless need for oil, and the
down-played horrors of the increasingly obvious
planet-wide climate change brought about by the greed
and arrogance of an avaricious and relatively tiny
corporate elite. The
greed of the corporate elite can never be satisfied, and
as if to add insult to injury, there is the always present
reality of perpetual bloody wars also brought on
by the desire to feed the bottomless pit of the greed
of the corporate elite - carried out under the veil of
misguided and distorted patriotism. If we, the
everyday people, allow this madness to continue, the conclusion
will be inescapable: extinction.
It
does not have to be this way! But it requires, and will continue to require, a willingness
to think and act outside of the strangle-hold of the corporate
Democratic and Republican parties. "America"` is constantly in search of enemies,
both at home and abroad. However, the actual enemies
to everyday people are the corporate/military vultures
that pick dry the bones of humanity and of this planet.
It's time to relegate them to the dust bin of history,
even as we collectively create a new history and tell
our own collective people's narratives.
We
must recognize the political accommodationists
and opportunists for who and what they are, no matter
what their color, gender, or rhetoric might be. They
must not be allowed to couch the truth in perpetration.
No more perpetrators, fakes, and frauds! We must resist,
dissent, and most of all educate and
collectively organize! Time is running
out for humanity and Mother Earth. No more exploitation
and repression at home, and no more damn wars abroad!!!
Onward
then 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 News
Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer
News Hour. 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.