Commentary on what is, what’s possible
From Larry Pinkney's piece in Online Journal
Editing by Carolyn Bennett
WHAT IS
Many people in the United States “were insidiously lulled into a slumber” but some are now waking from their slumber.
The peace prize-toting, constitutional lawyer and purveyor of war … has demonstrated for the clarity of all conscious people that mere color or gender, et cetera, must never be deciding factors for making crucial choices and or political decisions. … Superficiality is superficial!
The android [automaton, robot in human form]-like state of so many is being replaced by “the pain of betrayal and the recognition that the Obama/Biden regime (notwithstanding the Obama and corporate-stream media double-speak) has, over the last two years repackaged and accelerated the Bush/Cheney policies of war abroad and economic, legal, and political disenfranchisement at home.”
Understanding that the corporate Obama/Biden regime and the scandalous Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have, for all practical purposes, established and codified in law, a very real, often not-so-subtle police-state in this nation — strengthens everyday people’s resolve to throw off this unacceptable and intolerable situation.
WHAT MUST BE
Everyday people in this nation must grasp the international nature of the struggle for justice and human rights worldwide.
“The people of the United States must recognize that our struggle here for political, economic and political justice and human rights intertwines with those of everyday people in Haiti, in Spain, in Greece, in Germany, in Norway, in Venezuela, in Brazil, in Argentina, in Palestine, in Zambia, and in every nation of every corner of the Earth!”
Internationalism must be the answer of everyday people to the blood-sucking bane of globalization. We are not alone — no matter what corporate-stream media might try and have us believe! This planet belongs to everyday people — not to the vampiric corporate elite.
We must be guardians and sustainers of this planet. …
… Let us move beyond betrayal to an actualized and sustained vision of renewal! Organize, Organize, and then Organize some more! At stake is our existence, the existence of the offspring and the planet itself.
Sources and notes
“Is the United States a nation of psychological androids?” (Larry Pinkney Commentary), January 7, 2011, http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/printer_6774.shtml, Copyright © 1998-2007 Online Journal
Larry Pinkney
Former university instructor Larry Pinkney is a lecturer and writer whose pieces have appeared in a number of news sources including the San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, The Boston Globe, The Minnesota Daily, The Guardian (New York), Canadian Dimension Magazine, Vancouver (Canada) Indymedia, the ONLINE JOURNAL, and It’s About Time. Larry Pinkney has been co-chair of the San Francisco Black Caucus working closely with the Black Panther Party in the areas of employment, education and housing discrimination, and police brutality. Pinkney “is best known internationally for being the only U.S. citizen and former Black Panther Party member to have successfully self-authored a civil/political rights case from prison to the United Nations.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Pinkney
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