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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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Time to Take Back the People’s Political Narrative

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

When one permits another to define who and what you are, which includes the historical circumstances that made you who and what you are, then you have lost control of your own narrative, as a thinking, reasoning, human being. You have given up your very humanity, as a tool to be manipulated, abused, and ultimately…

When one permits another to define who and what you are, which includes the historical circumstances that made you who and what you are, then you…

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Plantation ‘America’ and Obama’s Ongoing Treachery

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Those who trust in myth are always ultimately betrayed by the fruition of reality. U.S. president Barack Obama is the zenith of the insipid embodiment of the actualization of 21st century plantation politics. His actions belie his dazzling, yet insidiously treacherous, displays of rhetorical adroitness. Not only are we Black people in the U.S. and…

Those who trust in myth are always ultimately betrayed by the fruition of reality. U.S. president Barack Obama is the zenith of the insipid embodiment of…

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Bourgeois Ping-Pong Politics & the ‘Mulattos’ of the Mind

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“It must be possible, however, to describe an initial, a basic dimension of all human ““problems. More precisely, it would seem that all the problems which man faces on the subject of man can be reduced to this one question: “Have I not, because of what I have done or failed to do, contributed to…

“It must be possible, however, to describe an initial, a basic dimension of all human ““problems. More precisely, it would seem that all the problems which…

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Obama’s “Change:” From the Frying Pan Into the Fire

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“If the masses of people in this nation knew or had known the pertinent facts pertaining to the war mongering “we can fight the war better,” pro-apartheid Zionist, corporate Wall Street-backed, slippery tongued Barack Obama, it is doubtful that they would have been so thoroughly bamboozled and hoodwinked to their own detriment and that of…

“If the masses of people in this nation knew or had known the pertinent facts pertaining to the war mongering “we can fight the war better,”…

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Obama, Stop Defiling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s Legacy of Struggle & Peace

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Perhaps the single most devastating and grotesque horror being inflicted upon Black America, and indeed oppressed people of all colors in this nation and throughout the world, by Barack Obama, his corporate / military puppet masters, and the corporate media – is the inaccurate and despicable notion that things have somehow substantively changed for the…

Perhaps the single most devastating and grotesque horror being inflicted upon Black America, and indeed oppressed people of all colors in this nation and throughout the…

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Barack Obama: Impersonating a Black Man

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

—Malcolm X——“ When one recognizes the substantive difference between being supposedly black due mere partial pigmentation versus being black by virtue of color, consciousness, and collective memory it becomes crystal clear that Barack Obama, wily servant of the corporate / military elite, is by no means black. Rather he is, as Reverend Edward Pinkney [no…

---Malcolm X---—“ When one recognizes the substantive difference between being supposedly black due mere partial pigmentation versus being black by virtue of color, consciousness, and collective…

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Kiilu Nyasha: Still Strong, Still True, and Still a Revolutionary – In Struggle Spotlight

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The blood, sweat, tears, and suffering of Black people are the foundation of the wealth and power of the United States of America. – Huey P. Newton, THE BLACK PANTHER newspaper, February 17, 1969, Vol 2. #23 The Black Panther Party with its many programs, including free breakfast programs for children, free medical programs, free…

The blood, sweat, tears, and suffering of Black people are the foundation of the wealth and power of the United States of America. - Huey P.…

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Obama’s Afghan Military Escalation Reinforces Terrorism—Not the Opposite

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The terrorism of the U.S. military occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq breeds only the further terrorism of revenge. Barack Obama’s military escalation in Afghanistan, ensures not deters, “terrorism;” and notwithstanding his lofty rhetoric he knows this full well. It does not take a scientific genius to grasp the fact that military occupation of a sovereign…

The terrorism of the U.S. military occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq breeds only the further terrorism of revenge. Barack Obama’s military escalation in Afghanistan, ensures not…

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Obamatrocities and the National Past Time of Denial

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

From the continuance of the despicable international U.S. kidnapping and torture program, euphemistically known as “rendition,” to the de facto gutting / shredding of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights under the ongoing Patriot Act, to the deadly and increasing U.S. military drone attacks on the sovereign territory of Pakistan, to the enormous escalation…

From the continuance of the despicable international U.S. kidnapping and torture program, euphemistically known as “rendition,” to the de facto gutting / shredding of the U.S.…

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