It
is now the year 2012, and everyday Black, White, Brown,
Red, and Yellow people in the United States continue
to be economically pimped and politically �hoodwinked
and bamboozled� by those whose loyalty is to the
maintenance of a corrupt political system,
embodied by, in the words of Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik
el-Shabazz], the �foxes and wolves� of the corporate-controlled
Democratic and Republican parties.
The
late people�s historian Howard Zinn very correctly
said, �If you don�t know history, it is as if you were
born yesterday.� The systemic misleaders
of the black elite in this nation are doing all they
can to distort and/or purge from history (and memory)
the enormous sacrifices made in this protracted
and ongoing everyday people�s struggle in the
United States, and throughout the world. These biologically
black systemic gate-keepers would have young people
believe that it is quite alright to be a warmonger,
a de facto corporate-puppet, and a hypocrite - as long
as one is articulate, a member of the Democratic Party,
and most especially of somewhat darker pigmentation.
In this context, the sacrifices and brutal physical
systemic assassinations of Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, etc.,
are systemically pimped, disfigured, and mocked by the
actions of these biologically black misleaders
and systemic gate-keepers.
Even
as the masses of Black and poor people of all colors
slip deeper into poverty and economic emaciation, and
even as the Democratic and Republican politicians, in
collusion with the corporate-stream media, persist in
their efforts to distort and distract everyday
people away from the systemic root
causes of their (our) terrible pain, these gate-keepers
insist upon promulgating the lie of U.S. systemic
�democracy.� It does not matter to these persons that
the United States corporate-government continues
to be (more so than ever), in the words of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., the �greatest purveyor of violence
in the world.� Nor does it matter to these gate-keepers
that this nation�s president has signed into law
an act (known as the National Defense Authorization
Act), allowing for the indefinite detention of
U.S. citizens without being charged, having a
public trial, jury, or access to legal defense. This
horror was brought about by both the Democrats and
Republicans, and signed into law by a Democratic
president. History is not repeating itself. Certain
people have repeated history as it pertains to
bringing into existence a legalized police-state
in the United States. The Bill of Rights of the U.S.
Constitution is dead. In its place is legalized repression.
Notwithstanding
the phony, political bait & switch rhetoric,
and concomitant backroom deals made with corporations
of and by this current U.S. president, these gate-keepers
continue to serve a political system that they know
full well is intrinsically corrupt and utterly irredeemable.
The
politicians of the Democratic and Republican parties
are not servants of the everyday people. They
are unprincipled career opportunists in service to
the corporate-elite.
It
is up to the everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown,
Red, and Yellow people of this nation to understand,
and quickly, that a corporate plutocracy police-state
- under the guise of legality - is still
a corporate plutocracy police-state. It is not
a people�s democracy.
The
everyday people must join with one another nationally
and internationally. Remember: The global, blood-sucking
corporations recognize no national boundaries, and it
is time that we everyday people recognize, and act upon,
our global humanity and potential. This will take hard
work and dogged determination - but it must be
done for the sake of the people of this nation and the
peoples of Mother Earth. We, in this nation, are
not alone. We are a part of a rising humanity in
Greece, in Portugal, in Spain, throughout Africa, South
America, the Caribbean, and indeed, all over the
world. The peoples of the world are demanding real
change. Let us take our places among and with them.
Each
one, teach one! Organize and be principled! �Tell
no lies, claim no easy victories.� Change the
system and serve the people.
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.