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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

Keeping It Real: The 21st Century American Nightmare And The Necessity Of DE-Colonizing Our Minds

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone It is no coincidence that during the latter stages of the US war of aggression against Vietnam, the United States Navy aired combined television, radio, and print media propaganda / recruitment ads aimed specifically at young Black Americans. The ads repeatedly urged Black people to, “Go Navy.…

The current issue is always free to everyone It is no coincidence that during the latter stages of the US war of aggression against Vietnam, the…

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Keeping It Real: Two Fools: Ignore Them And Get On With The Struggle

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

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Academia, White Racism, and the Miseducation of Our Youth In America – Keeping it Real

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

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Keeping It Real: It’s Not The Sixties Anymore

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone Recently, I found myself listening in on a group of nine young Black high school kids who had been asked to comment on Black history and the present state of Black America as they see it. To my glee, most of the youth made knowledgeable and consistent…

The current issue is always free to everyone Recently, I found myself listening in on a group of nine young Black high school kids who had…

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Keeping It Real: We Beg Your Pardon America: Excuse Us While We Puke

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

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Keeping It Real: Understanding Our Specialness And Role In Humanity’s Struggle

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone An individual or a people can be special in a positive or a negative way. Black America has a special, positive and increasingly important role to fulfill both nationally and globally. Switch with me now to a somewhat philosophical mode. As a child I saw, or at…

The current issue is always free to everyone An individual or a people can be special in a positive or a negative way. Black America has…

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Guest Commentary

To Be Black In America: An Unflinching Necessity

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

We are well into the 21st century and it continues to be absolutely essential to be Black in America. Beyond mere color, being Black is first and foremost a conscious political, social, and economic commitment to the struggle for the collective betterment of the descendants of the Black slavery holocaust, in what has now become…

We are well into the 21st century and it continues to be absolutely essential to be Black in America. Beyond mere color, being Black is first…

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Guest Commentary

American Democracy: A Legacy Of Hypocrisy And Deceit

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

It has been accurately said that, “America Is Like A Melting Pot – The People At The Bottom Get Burned And The Scum Floats To The Top.” Perhaps, nothing is more indicative of this in the 21st century than the insipid manner in which the institutions of white America continue to reinvent the myth pertaining…

It has been accurately said that, "America Is Like A Melting Pot - The People At The Bottom Get Burned And The Scum Floats To The…

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Barak Obama – Trojan Horse and A Great White Hope?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

In a span of less than one week, US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, has managed to simultaneously both deeply insult and negate Black America, while courting what appears to be an increasing amount of white Americans.Many of these white Americans are in flagrant denial of their own color privilege and racism, and clearly grasp that…

In a span of less than one week, US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, has managed to simultaneously both deeply insult and negate Black America, while courting…

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