{"id":10886,"date":"2009-09-20T03:41:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T08:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10886"},"modified":"2009-09-20T03:41:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T08:41:45","slug":"larry-pinkney-leonard-peltier-mumia-abu-jamal-justice-barometers-of-our-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10886","title":{"rendered":"Larry Pinkney: Leonard Peltier &#038; Mumia Abu-Jamal: Justice Barometers of Our Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Larry Pinkney, BlackCommentator.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcommentator.com\/342\/342_kir_peltier_abu_jamal.html\">17 September 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the United States of America, the land of hypocrisy, denial, and subterfuge.<\/p>\n<p>Intense <em>economic and race war<\/em> in fact continues unabated in this nation unabashedly <em>fostered<\/em>, sadly, by U.S. President Barack Obama, who is himself the aloof and blissfully <em>oblivious<\/em> target of <em>increasing<\/em> racial bigotry. What a terrible irony!  It is stunning, but no accident, how <em>the obvious<\/em> is repeatedly missed by so many in \u2018America.\u2019 The details in the cases of U.S. political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier make this abundant arrogance, hypocrisy, and dangerous obliviousness that is so prevalent in this land &#8211; <em>crystal clear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Leonard  Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal however, are so much <em>more<\/em> than political prisoners in &#8216;America.\u2019  Their three <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">decades-long<\/span><\/em> wrongful imprisonment represents       the very heart and soul of ongoing hypocrisy, racism, and <em>growing<\/em> injustice in this nation. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier are not simply <em>names to banter about<\/em>. As with many other political prisoners in this country, these two cases represent the collective <em>barometer<\/em> that indicate the <em>utter and dismal failure<\/em> of the judiciary and politicos of this nation to \u201cchange\u201d their ways and come to their <em>human<\/em> senses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcommentator.com\/342\/342_kir_peltier_abu_jamal.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Pinkney, BlackCommentator.com, 17 September 2009 Welcome to the United States of America, the land of hypocrisy, denial, and subterfuge. Intense economic and race war in fact continues unabated in this nation unabashedly fostered, sadly, by U.S. President Barack Obama, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2PA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10889,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions\/10889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}