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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.

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More Austerity & Another War – Ho Hum

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

When is enough, enough?! How long will the people of this nation continue to toil under the boot of illusion, lies, and insanity? At what point will the majority of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people finally and unequivocally say NO MORE, and insist upon systemic change?!! Contrary to the incessant chirping by…

When is enough, enough?! How long will the people of this nation continue to toil under the boot of illusion, lies, and insanity? At what point…

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Barack ‘Grima Wormtongue’ Obama: Lies, Lies, & More Lies

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“We are sick and tired of our people having to go to Vietnam and other places to fight for something we don’t have here.” -Fanie Lou Hamer “Treat the earth well. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.” -An Oglala Sioux proverb Even empires have their time…

“We are sick and tired of our people having to go to Vietnam and other places to fight for something we don’t have here.” -Fanie Lou…

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Liar, Liar! Your World’s On Fire!

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?” -James Baldwin “The only way to live on this planet with any human dignity at the moment is to struggle.” -Assata Shakur Those who choose illusion over reality, no matter how appealing it might seem, ensure the sustenance of human suffering and quite possibly…

"Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" -James Baldwin "The only way to live on this planet with any human dignity at…

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Liberals and Pimping the Pain of the People

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

In the U.S. political system, liberals and liberalism have always served to perniciously stymie people’s movements for real systemic change. The late English author, journalist, and satirist, Malcolm Muggeridge, described “liberalism” as “the great disease of our society,” and indeed it is. Liberals are important gate-keepers of and for this politically bankrupt system. Their role…

In the U.S. political system, liberals and liberalism have always served to perniciously stymie people’s movements for real systemic change. The late English author, journalist, and…

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Class Struggle: Don’t Get Fooled Again!

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat…Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.” Rosa Luxemburg “Industry required ever greater skills, thus closing their doors to the poor. Unions, fearing automation, warded off the poor; their predominantly White members often developed a paranoiac racism.”…

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat...Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.” Rosa…

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Justice, Law, and the Struggle for Change

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Whether in the streets of Cairo, Egypt; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; or Madison & Milwaukee (Wisconsin), USA, everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people yearn for political, economic, judicial, and environmental justice. Laws must be made subservient to justice, not the other way around. Justice is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, bartered, or auctioned…

Whether in the streets of Cairo, Egypt; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; or Madison & Milwaukee (Wisconsin), USA, everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people yearn for political,…

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Hypocrisy Is Not Democracy: Time for Change

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Most humans desire only to live their lives with dignity, fulfillment, and human worth, while a parasitic few seek to glorify and unceasingly enrich themselves awash in the blood and manipulated fears of the rest of humanity. In recent weeks, the world has witnessed heroic uprisings by millions of people in Tunisia, Egypt, and elsewhere…

Most humans desire only to live their lives with dignity, fulfillment, and human worth, while a parasitic few seek to glorify and unceasingly enrich themselves awash…

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War & Missiles: Obama’s Requiem for the Dead & Dying

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Notwithstanding his endless rhetoric, the policies and actions of Barack Obama, demonstrate the ultimate contradiction of all that justice-loving people have struggled so long and so hard for in this nation, and throughout the world. The increasingly obvious contradictions represented in and by this U.S. corporate plutocracy, must be recognized and understood for what they…

Notwithstanding his endless rhetoric, the policies and actions of Barack Obama, demonstrate the ultimate contradiction of all that justice-loving people have struggled so long and so…

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U.S. Hypocrisy Detonates Around the World

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Just plain ordinary, everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in the United States must make the connection between our own increasing economic and political repression here at home and that of people around the world, who are and have been for so long, suffering under the avaricious bloody boot of the U.S. corporate…

Just plain ordinary, everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in the United States must make the connection between our own increasing economic and political…

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