Larry Pinkney

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Political Background of Larry Pinkney

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. He has been interviewed on the nationally televised MACNEIL/LEHRER NEWS HOUR, regarding voter registration and disenfranchisement issues particularly as they pertain to economically poor and nonwhite voters in the United States.

Larry Pinkney has been written about in various books, including two published by the United Nations, and the book entitled, 'Saying No To Power,' by William Mandel [introduction by Howard Zinn, copyright Berkeley, California, 1999]. As a college student and Black Panther Party member, he was elected chairman of the Black Students' Union at City College of San Francisco [reference City College of San Francisco, 'FREE CRITIC newspaper 'Editorial,' page 2, December 2, 1968], and was also politically active at the campus of San Francisco State during the student strike of 1968-69. Larry Pinkney went on to become the cochair of the San Francisco Black Caucus which worked closely with the Black Panther Party in the areas of employment, education, and housing discrimination, and police brutality [reference THE BLACK PANTHER: Intercommunal News Service, October 21, 1972 article entitled, 'A Caucus For The Community: The San Francisco Black Caucus Serves The People']. He is best known internationally for being the only US citizen and former Black Panther Party member to have successfully self-authored a civil/political rights case from prison, to the United Nations as described in the piece entitled, 'The UN & the Black Panthers.'

Pinkney is also a former university instructor and is a lecturer and writer, having had pieces published in assorted news media organs including the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, The Boston Globe, The Minnesota Daily, The Guardian (of New York), Canadian Dimension Magazine, Vancouver Indymedia (Canada), the ONLINE JOURNAL, and It's About Time--news organ of the Black Panther Party Legacy & Alumni.

Larry Pinkney has been identified as a continuing target of the US Government's infamous 'COINTELPRO' program, wherein the US Government [i.e. the US FBI/Federal Bureau of Investigation] specifically targets Pinkney {and other Black American radical political activists} to be "neutralized" and discredited through the use of bogus and hideous, ongoing violence, "sex and drug" charges, due specifically to his "political activities;" and despite his habits in these areas being "unknown." [Reference FBI File # SF 157-2521] He continues to be an outspoken political activist. According to the sworn, signed, notarized and written December 3, 1985, statement of Minnesota Parole Officer A.E. Doom; bogus "narcotics" charge/s, facilitated by US authorities, were made against Pinkney, which almost resulted in his being wrongfully imprisoned. In 2001, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, (according to Minneapolis police report/s) Pinkney was charged with a bogus "assault on a police officer charge;" and was brutally beaten by Minneapolis police, who rationalized that their assault upon him was due to his having "once" been "an area leader of the Black Panthers" thirty years prior. In late 2006, Larry Pinkney is quoted as having said, "There is still hope, nevertheless, far too many young people in the US have become defacto narcissistic fascists and don't even realize it." He describes himself as a believer in the "absolute necessity of political struggle and the ultimate power of a politically informed people."

Pinkney continues to pursue "equal justice" in his efforts to expose constant hideous disinformation and frame-up charges against him and many other Black political activists who have been, and are, repeatedly emotionally and physically brutalized by US Government authorities in complicity with individual ordinary Americans. Pinkney continues to insist that the ongoing, murderous and infamous COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program] activities on the part of local, state, and federal authorities be "exposed for what it was, and continues to be, presently." He further insists that "active white racism and bias in the 21st century--on the part of the government, the police, the courts, most of the so-called "news" media, and many white Americans--continues to be the single most pervasive, destructive, and insidious form of oppression against Black people in the United States of America, and people in general throughout the world, most especially people of color."

So-called "public information" or public records [i.e. the news media, court documents etc.]have long been utilized in the United States, as an effective method of disseminating disinformation and misinformation against many Black political activists, including Larry Pinkney. After former Black Panther Party member Larry Pinkney became the first and only US citizen to have successfully self-authored a civil / human rights case to the UNITED NATIONS, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] released false public information information which "incorrectly" stated that Larry Pinkney was being held in custody for a "sexual offense"; which FBI disinformation was quickly published and disseminated by, among others, The Bellingham Herald newspaper of Belingham, Washington. Despite the later, belated retraction by The Bellingham Herald of this FBI disinformation, Larry Pinkney had already been targeted, and physically and emotionally, horribly tortured and brutalized in custody by whites, based upon the afore-described published false information from "the FBI."

Pinkney's aforementioned FBI file [#SF 157-2521]states that "sex and drug" charges would be utilized against Pinkney, in order to discredit and "nuetralize" him, due to his "political activities." Moreover, the US "news" media, including the Associated Press and many of its media "public information" news outlets in 2005, fabricated, published, and disseminated false "public information," stating among other things, that Pinkney had "pled guilty" to "sex charges" in Minnesota, in the year "1995." As Pinkney wrote in 2006, "There are absolutely no boundaries, no decency, and no limits to what tactics the US government and its surrogates have used and continue to use to crush--i.e. 'neutralize' Black political dissent in America." Larry Pinkney is one of those who openly embodies "Black political dissent in America," and white racists, their open and closet supporters, and the US government remain determined to attempt to "discredit and neutralize" Black political activists, including Larry Pinkney. Documented attempts by white racists and their confederates have continued, in an effort to intimidate Larry Pinkney, and other Black political activists in the United States who dare to expose the hypocrisy, unequal justice, and the myth of democracy in this nation.

In 2007, while speaking about the US government's COINTELPRO operations to "frame, murder, and discredit" Black political activists, Pinkney said, "Only after reading the American FBI COINTELPRO files on me and other political activists, could one even begin to comprehend the dastardly and disgusting ongoing tactics used by the federal and state authorities, in conjunction with various individuals, to discredit, silence, and neutralize me and others like me; and with what ease ordinary persons can be complicitous in these activities."

Sources:

         1)REPORT of the HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Official  
          Records: Thirty-Seventh Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/37/40),
          Copyright New York, 1982, UNITED NATIONS.

         2)International Covenant On Civil and Political Rights, Human Rights
           Committee SELECTED DECISIONS under OPTIONAL PROTOCOL (Second to 
           sixteenth sessions), Copyright New York, 1985, UNITED NATIONS.
          
         3)GERMAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Vol. 28, 1985.

         4)The Bellingham Herald newspaper, Bellingham, Washington, Tuesday, 
           January 26, 1982.

         5)SAYING NO TO POWER by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]
           Copyright Berkeley, CA 1999 / Library of Congress 
           Catalog Number 99-63842.           
      
         6)U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, File(s) #SF 157-2521.