{"id":3643,"date":"2020-12-04T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2020-12-04T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:42:00","slug":"fred-hampton-still-deserves-to-be-listened-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"Fred Hampton still deserves to be listened to"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fifty-one years ago today, Chicago police and FBI assassinated Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panthers. If it happened in Central America, we&#8217;d call it &#8220;a right-wing death squad,&#8221; but it happened in the middle of Chicago, so today it would be called a &#8220;police-involved shooting.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had said &#8220;the Black Panther Party without question represents the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.&#8221; They treated Hampton as such, and if you listen to him speak and see what he was doing, it&#8217;s obvious why he frightened them so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hampton was 21 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All Power to the People<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Transcript<\/strong>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon1\/fhamptonspeech.html\">https:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon1\/fhamptonspeech.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recitation (by Michael B. Jordan)<\/strong>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160123022140\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MnCK8wBAiKw\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160123022140\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MnCK8wBAiKw<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-5448057cb9484683aed52e9551b77287 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I&#8217;m talking about the white masses, I&#8217;m talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We&#8217;ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don&#8217;t fight racism with racism. We&#8217;re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don&#8217;t fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We ain&#8217;t gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we&#8217;re gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we&#8217;re gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That&#8217;s what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Akua Njeri, Widow of Fred Hampton, talking about the night of the assassination<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Video<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Assassination of Fred Hampton How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther 2 of 3\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1DzzFEeHot8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Article<\/strong>: <br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartford-hwp.com\/archives\/45a\/079.html\">http:\/\/www.hartford-hwp.com\/archives\/45a\/079.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-26b196a1fc7cc8c631804c6eac039c47 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later the shooting stopped, &#8220;but Fred was not moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They (the police) grabbed my robe and started laughing, &#8216;Well what do you know, we gotta broad here!'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I was very pregnant. They grabbed me by the hair and slung me into the kitchen area. I heard them say, &#8216;He&#8217;s barely alive&#8217; or &#8216;He&#8217;ll barely make it.&#8217; Then the shooting started again and then they said, &#8216;He&#8217;s good and dead now,&#8217; and I knew they had murdered Fred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fred Hampton on Revolution And Racism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recording of Hampton Speaking<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fred Hampton on Revolution And Racism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wVzbSvWaMkc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Transcript<\/strong>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/liberationschool.org\/fred-hampton-on-revolution-and-racism\/\">https:\/\/liberationschool.org\/fred-hampton-on-revolution-and-racism\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3488e4c8eb0caa7c746528ed8c53e68e is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you leave here, leave here saying, the last words, before you go to bed tonight, say, \u201cI am a revolutionary.\u201d Make that the last words in case you don\u2019t wake up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-one years ago today, Chicago police and FBI assassinated Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panthers. If it happened in Central America, we&#8217;d call it &#8220;a right-wing death squad,&#8221; but it happened in the middle of Chicago, so today it would be called a &#8220;police-involved shooting.&#8221; FBI Director J. 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