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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

Commentary

On Keeping the People Divided, Distracted and Controlled

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The role of the U.S. corporate-stream – so-called �news� and information media – is an insidious and debilitating one, particularly as it pertains to crippling and manipulating the masses of everyday ordinary people, and keeping them on the mental and political plantations of the corporate Democratic and Republican party foxes and wolves. The job of…

The role of the U.S. corporate-stream - so-called �news� and information media - is an insidious and debilitating one, particularly as it pertains to crippling and…

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Stuck on Stupid Supporting Democrats and Republicans

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

For example: To say the reason that the predator drone missile president Barack Obama, 1)supported the trillion dollar criminal bail out to Wall Street, 2) bombed Libya, North Africa, 3) signed into law the NDAA / indefinite detention law (of 2012) that calls for the disappearing and detaining in the United States of U.S. citizens…

For example: To say the reason that the predator drone missile president Barack Obama, 1)supported the trillion dollar criminal bail out to Wall Street, 2) bombed…

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If You Like STEALTH Bombers You’ll Love Barack Obama

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

What better way to obliterate the political and social consciousness of the populace of the United Sates than to develop and utilize a presidential stealth political candidate who could psychologically penetrate and annihilate the critical thinking and analytical capacities and defense mechanisms of virtually the entire population. Yet, perhaps the greatest irony in all of…

What better way to obliterate the political and social consciousness of the populace of the United Sates than to develop and utilize a presidential stealth political…

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SYSTEMIC Madness: What in the Hell Is Going On?!

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

-George Jackson Like a mad bull, the corporate-owned political system in the United States today has run amuck, causing misery, pain, and horrible human disasters both inside this nation and throughout the world. Everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people of this nation remain as the cannon fodder of the avaricious corporate /…

-George Jackson Like a mad bull, the corporate-owned political system in the United States today has run amuck, causing misery, pain, and horrible human disasters both…

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The National Tragedy Of Violence And The Opportunists Who Exploit It

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The violent and cold-blooded publicized murders of people of all ages and colors in this nation, including those of Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, and most recently Trayvon Martin are but the tip of the insane iceberg of violence nationwide. The violence that permeates this nation is akin to this government’s violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan,…

The violent and cold-blooded publicized murders of people of all ages and colors in this nation, including those of Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, and most recently…

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Book Review – Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party And The Fight Against Medical Discrimination

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

One of the political rallying cries of the Black Panther Party was, �Serve the people body and soul.� Alondra Nelson has brought forth a highly informative, meticulously documented, extremely relevant, and deeply engaging historical account of precisely how the daily activism of the Black Panther Party, in the area of health care, positively impacted Black…

One of the political rallying cries of the Black Panther Party was, �Serve the people body and soul.� Alondra Nelson has brought forth a highly informative,…

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Just A Spoonful Of Novocaine Helps The Medicine Go Down

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

This president has not once demonstrated the least bit of concern for the political prisoners confined in the prison gulags of this nation, or for that matter, for the burgeoning U.S. prison population in general, and the inhumane and deplorable conditions thereto. This president�� sang Al Green to his audience at a recent fund raiser…

This president has not once demonstrated the least bit of concern for the political prisoners confined in the prison gulags of this nation, or for that…

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Is Black America Reawakening?

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

-Frantz Fanon The euphemistic mountain top of freedom is actually not a mountain top at all. It is a plateau. For each succeeding generation must struggle to scale the heights of indifference and apathy in order to bring to fruition one more forward step in the amazingly persistent evolution of humanity. Nevertheless, humankind is constantly…

-Frantz Fanon The euphemistic mountain top of freedom is actually not a mountain top at all. It is a plateau. For each succeeding generation must struggle…

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Barack Obama & the Colonization of Our Minds

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

The systemic economic and political power-brokers of the United States� elite have always understood that the most effective way to control people is, first and foremost, through the incessant application and perpetuation of mental chains. It is crucial that everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people understand this and act accordingly. Economic hegemony…

The systemic economic and political power-brokers of the United States� elite have always understood that the most effective way to control people is, first and foremost,…

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