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Editorial Board

Larry Pinkney

Guest Commentator

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, 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 view Larry’s interview of October 26, 2012. Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.

262 pieces

Commentary

Hatred, Division, & Perpetual Wars: When Will We Ever Learn?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Some systemic opportunists masquerade as supporters of everyday ordinary people but are in fact covert operatives of and for the corporate-owned Democrat and Republican parties.

“...the two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a 'gentlemen's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote...May God write us down…

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Predator Drones, Trayvon Martin, and Obama’s Hypocrisy

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

How many more thousands, abroad and at home, will have to die before we internalize Howard Zinn’s words that, “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. “There is no flag large enough to…

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Surveillance, Obama’s Guantanamo, and Political Prisoners in the U.S

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The hypocrisy of this nation's so-called 'democracy' begins right here at home and stretches around the globe.

“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people…

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‘Blackula’ Obama, Whistleblowers, & Betrayal by the Media

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

has, in all but name, ushered in the largest and most perilous de facto police and surveillance state in the history of this nation.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” -…

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Barack Obama: The Dream Deferred

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Barack Obama has proven to be the bane of everyday ordinary people. He is this nation's first president to officially have his very own secret extrajudicial 'kill list.'

A Dream Deferred Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore…

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Intellectual Genocide in the U.S. & Why Africa Is Important for Humanity

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Africa's often ignored or forgotten significance continues to be the pivotal role that it has played in the birth of human civilization itself.

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” - Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “...I feel…

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The Twisted Paradigm of ‘Hope and Change’ in the U.S

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Time and time again we have been relegated to playing the role of being the victims of the vicious systemic game of 'rope-a-dope.'

“...the two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a 'gentlemen's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote...May God write us down…

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Mythology, Lies, and the ‘American’ Way of Violence

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The physical and psychological violence suffered by humanity, in reality, emanates from the cynical, avaricious power elite who thrive on propagating lies and myths to keep us divided, unthinking, and collectively powerless.

“In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but…

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