Larry Pinkney

Sectarianism and the Impotence of the U.S. Left Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board It’s time to be blunt. Much (though certainly not all) of what is loosely termed the political “left” in the United States, has a stymieing and self-inflicted Achilles heel known as sectarianism. The American Heritage College dictionary defines…

A 2010 Election Thought: More of the Same – Only Worse Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The bold timidity, corporate complicity & collaboration, and arrogant disdain on the part of the Obama / Biden administration and their Democratic Party cohorts, for the pain and suffering of this nation’s everyday Black, White,…

– From Point #5 of the Ten-Point Platform & Program of the Black Panther Party (October, 1966) It is October of the year 2010, and there is something earth-shaking taking place, with and among, many college / university students throughout this nation. The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), whose organizational roots and history run…

-Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara The Black Panther Party (for self Defense) was formed in October of 1966, in Oakland, California. Thus, it is appropriate that especially during this month of October, 2010, an examination be made of the intrepid legacy of the Black Panther Party, what circumstances brought it into existence, and its continuing impact today.…

The opportunity to choose is utterly meaningless and irrelevant when the supposed choices that are offered are fundamentally the same ones with different packaging. In the 21st Century, different packaging is in this instance essentially what is known as corporate branding, which means that messages, images, and imagery target a mass (and often undiscerning) audience.…

In these times of seemingly perpetual U.S. wars abroad, increasing home foreclosures, no single payer universal health care, corporate hegemony, homelessness, joblessness, and growing anger and despair; it should come as no surprise that political repression is also in full swing here at home. There is however, a positive side to this gloomy scenario. No…

This is a Secular, People’s Struggle for Justice – Not a Religious One Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board The struggle for social, political, and economic justice derives its fundamental authority from the legitimate yearnings and needs of all people – be they Black, White, Brown, Red, or Yellow. The human right…

“We realized at a very early point in our development that revolution is a process. It is not a particular action, nor is it a conclusion…This process moves in a dialectical manner and we understand the struggle of the opposites based upon their unity.” -Huey P. Newton, To Die for the People “If history is…

Ron Walters Makes His Transformation As the People’s Struggle Continues By Larry Pinkney BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board “The price of freedom is death.” -Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “Death is never a trick; nature doesn’t play a comedy; instead, it’s a tragic, colossal and unstoppable drama.” -L. Fuerbach [German Philosopher] The transformation from life to death…