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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

Commentary

Radical Civic Action: A Process for Social Change

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

When activists and/or voters become fans instead of serious, committed, and actively engaged citizens in the political process, we end up with dangerous politicians like Barack Obama and crowd. We become mesmerized by nebulous rhetoric and manipulated by corporate images and brands rather than being committed activists whose constant watch words should be critical thought…

When activists and/or voters become fans instead of serious, committed, and actively engaged citizens in the political process, we end up with dangerous politicians like Barack…

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Cynthia McKinney, DIGNITY

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

If one is not lethargic these are exciting though extremely dangerous times. Nothing makes the people’s victory more assured than the determination to attain it. Your writer had just awoken this morning hearing the wonderful and myriad birds chirping. Yet, in my heart there was both love and rage as I mused about the ongoing…

If one is not lethargic these are exciting though extremely dangerous times. Nothing makes the people’s victory more assured than the determination to attain it. Your…

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Black America: Entering a Period of Spectacle, Mediocrity, and Irrelevance?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

It is sad to behold this nation as a whole, and Black America in particular, entering a comatose state of political and cultural consciousness under the mesmerizing, mediocre and hypocritical auspices of the Barack Obama regime / administration. Nevertheless, this is the pitiful current reality for many who remain in a dangerous, unconscious and corporately…

It is sad to behold this nation as a whole, and Black America in particular, entering a comatose state of political and cultural consciousness under the…

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A Review of The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

As your writer finished reading the chilling, fascinating, and powerfully informative (recently released) book by Robert Hillary King (aka Robert King Wilkerson) titled, From The Bottom Of The Heap: The Autobiography Of Black Panther Robert Hillary King (PM Press), I found myself incensed yet again at the U.S. judicial and prison systems responsible for framing,…

As your writer finished reading the chilling, fascinating, and powerfully informative (recently released) book by Robert Hillary King (aka Robert King Wilkerson) titled, From The Bottom…

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Barack Obama’s Mission to Neutralize and Destroy Critical Thought

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Throughout recorded history, empires have resorted to utilizing surrogates of one kind or another to do their bidding. The 21st century U.S. Empire is no different in this regard. Barack Obama is presently the surrogate emperor of and to the U.S. Empire, and his task is to neutralize and destroy, as much as possible, any…

Throughout recorded history, empires have resorted to utilizing surrogates of one kind or another to do their bidding. The 21st century U.S. Empire is no different…

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The Burial of the Negro and the 21st Century Negrodian

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Like a recurring nightmare, replete with psychotic, blood sucking sci-fi political vampire, some biologically black people in this nation-have moved briskly backwards from merely being negroes inside the U.S. Empire to full blown 21st century negrodians, shamelessly perpetuating it; and in so doing have given new and even more horrific meaning to the term “sell…

Like a recurring nightmare, replete with psychotic, blood sucking sci-fi political vampire, some biologically black people in this nation-have moved briskly backwards from merely being negroes…

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Contradiction: Black and Head of the U.S. Empire

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The inescapable but deliberately ignored irony about Barack Obama being installed as this nation’s first so-called black president is that being Black in ‘America’ has in reality always meant so much more than mere color pigmentation. To be the head of the most aggressive, violent, and hypocritical empire on this planet is not to be…

The inescapable but deliberately ignored irony about Barack Obama being installed as this nation’s first so-called black president is that being Black in ‘America’ has in…

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Finance Capital and the Real Global “Pirates”

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Conventional wisdom has it that the finance capitalists particularly in the United States and Europe today are anxiously about the business of trying to prevent imminent global financial collapse of their own making. In fact it is the opposite that is true. Neo-liberal economics is nothing more than the watch word for the piracy against…

Conventional wisdom has it that the finance capitalists particularly in the United States and Europe today are anxiously about the business of trying to prevent imminent…

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Barack Obama and the Insanity of Denial

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

Collective denial of reality is perhaps the most dangerous pathology consistently indulged in by the misleaders and much of the citizenry of the United States of America. The American Heritage College dictionary in relevant part defines denial as “a refusal to grant the truth of a statement or allegation; a contradiction,” and “an unconscious defense…

Collective denial of reality is perhaps the most dangerous pathology consistently indulged in by the misleaders and much of the citizenry of the United States of…

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