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Just A Spoonful Of Novocaine Helps The Medicine Go Down

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

This president has not once demonstrated the least bit of concern for the political prisoners confined in the prison gulags of this nation, or for that matter, for the burgeoning U.S. prison population in general, and the inhumane and deplorable conditions thereto. This president�� sang Al Green to his audience at a recent fund raiser…

March 15, 2012 2 min read Free to read

This president has not once demonstrated the least bit of concern for the political prisoners confined in the prison gulags of this nation, or for that matter, for the burgeoning U.S. prison population in general, and the inhumane and deplorable conditions thereto. This president�� sang Al Green to his audience at a recent fund raiser even as the masses of Black and other poor people of all colors sing the daily blues over the ongoing and increasing systemic economic, social, and political� injustices which they/we endure. This president is pimping the emotions and pain of the people – not serving them!� And this is truly no joke.

Those, irrespective of color, who support Barack Obama or anyone else, predicated upon color do a horrendous disservice to themselves, this nation, and the world. Moreover, such actions are in direct contravention of the paraphrased words of� Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his vision that humans be judged on “the content of their character not the color of their skin.” Sadly, in the case of Barack Obama, much of Black America has done and is doing precisely the opposite.� It is also noteworthy that Dr. King opposed war mongering and wars,�� and unequivocally referred to the U.S. government as the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” which it remains today under the ‘leadership’ and direction of Barack Obama. History will ultimately hold the final accounting as to what we did or did not do in these perilous and extremely challenging times today. Will it be infamy, or shall we fulfill our destinies as politically conscious human beings?

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