Larry Pinkney

Barack Obama does not “identify” with the “black radical tradition” of struggle in this nation. He is, in fact, the antithesis of it.Pertaining most especially to the mentality of the corporate/military power elite that runs and controls the United States, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. noted that, “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.…

“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.” – Lucy Parsons In order to genuinely change this corrupt, rotten, political system, one must fight the system, not accommodate or acquiesce to it. It is a struggle based upon the needs and human rights of the many versus the insatiable…

“I demand that notice be taken of my negating activity insofar as I pursue something other than life; insofar as I do battle for the creation of a human world – that is, of a world of reciprocal recognitions.” –Frantz Fanon Almost nothing is more painful than observing a people commit political suicide. Yet, this…

“I freed a thousand slaves – I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” The ‘masters’ of this present-day New Plantation are the corporate elite and their minions; the field slaves are the ordinary people.The insidious role of many so-called ‘mulattos’ on slave plantations in the U.S., Haiti, and…

“The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two major parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world.” -Howard Zinn …the two…

“A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.” -Chief Crazy Horse We shall intensify and carry on in the just and necessary struggle.It is through boundless tears of enormous sorrow and simultaneously, with a renewed sense of determination…

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.” – Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz “We, as freedom fighters, are not weeping for the death of a man, even a man who was a companion in struggle and an exemplary revolutionary…Nor are we weeping for Africa’s betrayal. But we are weeping with hatred…

“…the two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ of non-recognition, no matter how we vote…May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either Republican or the Democratic parties.” -W.E.B. Du Bois “No, I think the strongest suggestion is that…

“The fascists already have power. The point is that some way must be found to expose them and combat them. An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die. The holder of so called public office is always merely an extension of the hated ruling class. It is…