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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

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Counterinsurgency and Political Prisoners in the United States

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

One of the most insidious historical myths perpetuated by so-called ‘educational’ institutions and the corporate-stream media is that the United States was founded upon the holistic principles of ‘democracy’ and ‘justice for all.’ Since when has ‘democracy’ and ‘justice for all’ meant the genocide of the Indigenous Native peoples, the enslavement of Black people, and…

One of the most insidious historical myths perpetuated by so-called ‘educational’ institutions and the corporate-stream media is that the United States was founded upon the holistic…

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Leonard Peltier: In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.” – Chief Crazy Horse Today’s very succinct column is meant as a reminder to everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people of a vision to which many of our…

"A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky." -…

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Obama’s Bait & Switch Game – Otherwise Known As B.S

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“Beware of the naked man who offers you clothes.” – African Proverb This very succinct column is meant to challenge the Barack Obama “hope and change” Kool-Aid drinkers to wake the hell up and face and change the reality of their lethargy. U.S. President Barack Obama is singularly the most dangerous, anti-democratic president in the…

"Beware of the naked man who offers you clothes." - African Proverb This very succinct column is meant to challenge the Barack Obama "hope and change"…

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Is It Time to Impeach Barack Obama?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“…That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles…

"...That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government…

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Is the People’s Struggle Against Corporate Hegemony Really Worth It?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Those of us who demand and strive for an end to corporate-government subterfuge, wars, hypocrisy, and deceit must of necessity understand that the U.S. government and its corporate masters and assorted accomplices have used, and will continue to use, every conceivable vicious and dastardly tactic to discredit and neutralize us individually and organizationally. With this…

Those of us who demand and strive for an end to corporate-government subterfuge, wars, hypocrisy, and deceit must of necessity understand that the U.S. government and…

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Perpetual War, Corporate Greed, & Austerity for the Masses

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

As the corporate/military U.S. Empire, headed by the nominally black Barack Obama, with the complicity of his Democrat[ic] and Republican party political pimps, rumbles along, crushing the economic needs, human rights, and aspirations of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation and around the world, conditions for just plain ordinary people…

As the corporate/military U.S. Empire, headed by the nominally black Barack Obama, with the complicity of his Democrat[ic] and Republican party political pimps, rumbles along, crushing…

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Theatre of the Absurd: We Have to Stop Being Caged Hamsters!

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The imagery of the caged hamster, endlessly running round and round on a squeaky spinning wheel going nowhere, is perhaps the most accurate summation of the dangerous and sad state of political affairs that ensnares everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation. We have a corporate-stream media that has shamelessly abdicated…

The imagery of the caged hamster, endlessly running round and round on a squeaky spinning wheel going nowhere, is perhaps the most accurate summation of the…

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Will Americans Ever Become Sane?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

– Frantz Fanon Will ‘Americans’ collectively ever become sane? In a word, no – not as long as the corporate-stream media, ‘educational’ institutions, and corporate-government of this nation are allowed to succeed in indoctrinating and controlling the past and present narrative [i.e. stories] of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people. This control comes…

- Frantz Fanon Will 'Americans' collectively ever become sane? In a word, no - not as long as the corporate-stream media, 'educational' institutions, and corporate-government of…

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Accommodationists: Couching the Truth in Perpetration

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The most insidious and exploitative political and economic pimps of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people are those motivated by personal ambition that is devoid of principles. These metaphorical vultures, masquerading as human beings, come in both genders and in all colors and ethnicities. They are, in fact, the bane of humanity in…

The most insidious and exploitative political and economic pimps of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people are those motivated by personal ambition that is…

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