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.