Larry Pinkney

It has been correctly written that: “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.” Indeed, the very system of capitalism is in fact, sustained systemic terrorism against the poor. Years of corporate-government subterfuge, disinformation, discreditation, wrongful imprisonments of political…

The impossible is, more often than not, that for which we have set limitations, and convinced ourselves simply cannot be done. Clearly, the increasing joblessness, home foreclosures, continuing bloody U.S. wars abroad, cynical racism, gross economic inequities and social injustices at home, and the constant government and media disinformation, omissions, and subterfuge have brought some…

The most cynical and despicable act against people in pain is to offer them false “hope” and phony “change” while all the while steadily crushing their needs and aspirations under the guise of a genuine concern for them. There is an African proverb which says: “Beware of the naked man who offers you clothes.” The…

A rotten, poisonous, stinking pie is far worse than no pie at all. Yet, this is precisely what the corporate Democratic Party and corporate “news” media have repeatedly forced down the throats of the “American” people, cloaked in the deceptive rhetoric of “change” and “reform.” The Democratic Party foxes and the Republican Party wolves are…

If there is no intellectual or actualized honesty, there will be no fundamental or systemic change. When liberals and so-called progressives in this nation dare, even peripherally, to address the quagmire of prisons and torture carried out by U.S. authorities, more often than not, they do so from the fallacious premise that the U.S. prison…

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,…

Real change that serves everyday Black, Brown, Red, White, and Yellow peoples does not come about by osmosis nor by magic. Change, that serves the people (and not the Wall Street corporate vultures and military elite), is brought about through serious, protracted, collective political struggle. In other words, the actualization of a collective people’s vision.—“—…

Why has much of Black America come to love those who, in reality, hate them and hate those who actually love them and/or who are, or at least should be, economic and political allies? Has the collective conscience and consciousness of Black America been politically lobotomized in the 21st century, and what can be done…