Executed while sleeping in his bed; His pregnant wife shot, too (she survived).
Fred Hampton never uttered a hateful word about white people (although hateful words would be justified). Fred Hampton advocated freedom for all people, regardless of color. His "crime" was his zero tolerance for injustice. His "crime" was being a peace maker. His crime was being an organizer. His crime was being a leader. His crime was speaking Truth. He was a threat to the white status quo...
And then we, Black people, because we lack a knowledge of self, we allow the white establishment, and black proxies President Obama, Orlando Patterson, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey to insult us and call our communities pathological or we allow them to blame us for our own oppression. Not only do we allow it, some of us APPLAUD it.
We gotta wake up Black people.
We gotta wake up Black people.
"They came in our community like a thief in the night and they snatched Fred's life, just like that. The only thing this brother has done was to instill a sense of pride and dignity and self determination in his people--You could not not be moved by Fred Hampton."
tags: assassination, black panther party, chicago, cointelpro, fred hampton
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