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.