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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

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Will Revisionist ‘Scholars’ Erase The People’s Victories From History?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward all research.” – Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have…

“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward all research.” - Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “History is important. If you don't know history…

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Hedonistic ‘Americans’ and the Role of the Media: Will It Ever Change?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” -Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and…

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power.…

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Calling Out the Misleaders of the Phony ‘Progressives’ and the Fake U.S. ‘Left’

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“It is both sad and simultaneously horribly fascinating to observe so many euphorically pinning their hopes and dreams on Barack Obama, a chameleon who speaks liberally of ‘change’ but who is, himself, beholden to the very same blood-sucking corporate vampires (including Lockheed and others) who are ravaging the people of America, and the entire planet…Many…

“It is both sad and simultaneously horribly fascinating to observe so many euphorically pinning their hopes and dreams on Barack Obama, a chameleon who speaks liberally…

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Can Black America Survive ‘Drone Man’ Barack Obama?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.” – Frantz Fanon Perhaps the more encompassing and pertinent question is not only can Black America survive the ‘Kill List,’ NDAA signing, slick-talking, corporate Trojan Horse, predator drone man Barack Obama; but can this nation as a whole, and…

"They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.” - Frantz Fanon Perhaps the more encompassing and pertinent question…

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Storming the Bastille Takes Many Forms

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.” – Steve Biko Nothing worth attaining comes into being without conscious struggle. Everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation have been systemically and systematically indoctrinated to believe the fallacious notion…

"It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die." - Steve Biko Nothing worth attaining…

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The Legitimate Rage of the People Cannot Forever Be Denied

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressors and those who do the the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice, and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind…

“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressors and those who do the the oppressing. I believe that there will be a…

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Keeping it Real

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better, and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children…” – Amilcar Cabral In the fallacious name of supposedly moving forward,…

“Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to…

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Is Opposing Obama’s ‘Kill List’ & Drone Missile Murders Being Anti-Black?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” -Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot…

“You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” -Malcolm…

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The Emperor’s Gifts – Guantanamo, Drone Missiles, Afghanistan and the NDAA

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

“Killing one person is MURDER – Killing 100,000 is FOREIGN POLICY” – Anonymous “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue…

“Killing one person is MURDER – Killing 100,000 is FOREIGN POLICY” - Anonymous “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and…

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