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Stop Whining and Start ORGANIZING!

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

It is irrefutable that presently, everyday Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow peoples in this nation are suffering joblessness, home foreclosures, mass incarceration, educational disenfranchisement, imperialistic bloody wars abroad, and a de facto domestic police state at the hands of an avaricious, slimy corporate / military elite to whom the U. S. government, in fact,…

March 11, 2010 4 min read Free to read

It is irrefutable that presently, everyday Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow peoples in this nation are suffering joblessness, home foreclosures, mass incarceration, educational disenfranchisement, imperialistic bloody wars abroad, and a de facto domestic police state at the hands of an avaricious, slimy corporate / military elite to whom the U. S. government, in fact, shamelessly caters. It is also irrefutable that these horrors will continue and intensify, unless and until, the everyday people of “America,” in both word and deed, stand together collectively and say, “No More!”

Despite the daily barrage of corporate media deception, distortion, mind-numbing distraction, and crucial omission, some people in this nation are beginning to wake-up as a result of the enormously painful and ongoing economic, social, and political emaciation that they / we are enduring. Others are still groggy, but are starting to at least recognize that something is very, very wrong with the U.S. political system, and that there has been no “change” in fact or in substance, and that conditions are becoming far worse and will ultimately become intolerable for the masses, even as the bloated and decadent rich enjoy the fruits of the exploitation of everyday people.

While there are those who concentrate primarily on the undeniable rise of racism and on what the right wing is doing; many of these persons fail to realize that our task is to concentrate on what WE should be doing, while not being oblivious to the right wing,. Our task is to politically educate and creatively out-organize the right wingers of this nation, not pander to their distortions and insanity. Stop whining about the right wingers as they are doing exactly what is expected of them. Their strength is in distortion, ignorance AND fear-mongering, whereas our strength is in our ability to clearly, concisely, and precisely educate [i.e. politicize] everyday people to how this system is emaciating them and what we can, should, and must be doing about it. Our strength is in not merely recognizing the systemic political bankruptcy, but just as importantly, in educating and organizing around creative and practical solutions. Our strength is in our actualizing [i.e. acting upon] a collective vision for a future that serves the interests of everyday Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow people! Ours is the strength of, on a local and national level, bringing about [through hard work] a movement for systemic change that is full of solutions versus fear-mongering, racism, and distortion.

For example, when the right wingers put forth the ridiculous assertion that Barack Obama is “a socialist,” we are presented with the golden opportunity to make it crystal clear that:

Thus, instead of being reactive, we must be creatively revolutionary in our thinking and in educating / politicizing. Stop whining! We have so many political education and organizing tools at our disposal that we have not yet come anywhere near to collectively or fully utilizing! Revolution, like true history, is not some distorted and linear set of dates and places to be remembered and mindlessly regurgitated. Revolution is a protracted process of building, honing, and developing a collective vision and concomitant people’s movement. To be creatively revolutionary requires vision coupled with hard work. Revolution is an urgent and important process, not a singular event.

As we set about building a genuine people’s movement, we must be keenly aware of the phony so-called “progressives” and the fake leftists – who are nothing more than systemic gate keepers, surrogates, and the fifth column of the foxy, corporate Democratic Party – no matter their skin pigmentation or gender. It is time to break away totally from these wily systemic snakes.

In building our people’s movement, some consistent actions in which we must engage should include:

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