Why Reverend Edward Pinkney is so Important to Black America

On December 14, 2007, Reverend Pinkney was wrongfully jailed for having dared to exercise his human right to free speech when he explicitly, boldly, and correctly referred to Judge Alfred Butzbaugh as a “racist and corrupt Judge.” Reverend Pinkney had already been falsely prosecuted in retaliation for having dared to have led a successful effort to unseat one of the City of Benton Harbor’s influential power brokers who supported the selling out of the economic and land rights of the majority Black residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Yet, this was not enough for the racist white power structure and their negrodian surrogates. No. Pinkney had to be discredited and silenced! Reverend Pinkney had “led the fight against official corruption and corporate greed in his impoverished and predominantly Black community of Benton Harbor, Michigan.” This was, and continues to be, all about “the giveaway of Benton Harbor’s prime waterfront property to Whirlpool Corporation.” The majority of Black and other poor people in Benton Harbor, be damned, or so the story goes and has gone thus far.