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If You Support the Pro Apartheid Zionist Barack Obama: Stop Complaining About Racism Or Economic Exploitation Here and Abroad

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

History does not repeat itself. Rather, it is people who repeat history, especially when we do not learn from the lessons of history. Now, there is a man who would be the colored Emperor of the de facto U.S. Empire; Barack Obama, the most singularly dangerous threat to Black America, and the planet as a…

June 19, 2008 2 min read Free to read

History does not repeat itself. Rather, it is people who repeat history, especially when we do not learn from the lessons of history.

Now, there is a man who would be the colored Emperor of the de facto U.S. Empire; Barack Obama, the most singularly dangerous threat to Black America, and the planet as a whole. Masquerading as a man of peace when in fact he is a corporate / military representative of war. The same man who has thrown Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his entire church, and the Palestinian peoples under the crushing wheels of the proverbial bus of political expediency and opportunism. No critically thinking person of good will, be they Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, or White should be surprised when this man sets out to sacrifice us on his alter of political opportunism and hypocrisy.

Not only is it a contradiction in terms to support the pro-apartheid Zionist, corporate and militarily backed Barack Obama (or any other Democratic or Republican Party candidate) while simultaneously claiming to be of all things a leftist; it is the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty. One cannot simultaneously support both the empire and those that the empire oppresses and represses. One is either in support of the U.S. Empire or in opposition to it – -plain and simple. In this there is no middle passage, no middle ground, no nonsense. I find myself in agreement with Mumia Abu-Jamal, when he concluded his June 5, 2008, column titled, ‘Is Obama’s Victory Ours?,’ by stating, “’Real change that you could believe in’ would be an end to Empire, and an end to wars for corporate greed, not just the change of the shade of the political managers…” This of course is obvious, but is nonetheless being studiously ignored by those so-called progressives and leftists who have opportunistically chosen to collaborate with the Empire while at the same time asserting that they somehow oppose its despicable practices against oppressed peoples both in inside of the United States and around the world. What rubbish!

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