Such a revolutionary genius. To be able to radicalize class conscious of the working class into discarding the concept of race at his age during that time period is unimaginable. He scared the hell out of tyrannical minority.
That's why I love this speech. From 4:10, such a great response to the tired rhetorical "Don't ALL lives matter?" From now on I'm just going to link this and say "Yes! I'm so glad you agree! Pick up a sign and join in!"
I'm a white man from Michigan, and to be honest, I owe almost every single freedom I currently have to brother Hampton. Had it not been for Hampton, my parents and grandparents would still be fighting for access to the same material equality as the Ford family. Because of Hampton, I will continue to fight for the material equality of ALL Americans, white or black, rich or poor.
Man brother, I done enough research to know every race thinks they're the chosen or best race, this is the only person I've ever heard truly want power for the people. Let the chips fall where they may. Feel free to put me on more people I can research
Every time the economic system is challenged by poor people reclaiming what was stolen from them it’s met with brutal violence. From the Diggers in England who had their life based on common lands stolen from them, to striking miners, to striking workers in Detroit and Michigan, to poor blacks in the south, from Fred Hampton who was uniting across racial lines in Chicago, to MLK who was creating a poor people’s movement across racial lines. From Indigenous people in Oka to Chiapas Mexico. Overseas in Cuba which was the greatest victim of terrorist attack in history, to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and on and on. The only way to stop this is solidarity and mobilization and keep on fighting. Someday we’ll build a giant monument to Fred Hampton in Chicago, because eventually justice and humanity will win.
Sir, would like to use this touching quote of yours to close the statement of an essay hence my seeking your permission for it, and also to know your name so that i may attach it underneath the quote.🙏
The way this man was assassinated is a national shame. This is a real leader filled with revolutionary LOVE for the people. I listen to this man and I KNOW there is hope, even today. Even now. They tried to silence him but he’s speaking to us today. POWER TO THE PEOPLE. The Black Panther Party was the TRUE party of the people. So much respect for these powerful revolutionaries.
FRED KNEW IT WAS NEVER ABOUT BLACK VS WHITE. RULING CLASS KEEPING POWER. GREAT KNOWLEDGE FOR SUCH A YOUNG MAN. FRED WAS CHARISMATIC. THEREFORE TOO DANGEROUS!✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
I'm Latina, and I love this Man! He is Correct. We need to come together. Stop fighting Over color. We are better than that!! I love Everyone. Everyone matters to me. I want all our children to grow up together and love eachother. The Politicians will never do shit for US! Dont matter who you are! They can care less about you. They Hate You. Its WE the People Vs The establishment. 💯✊🏼✊🏿
This 21 year old man was the biggest threat to the American system cause he understood if we all come together as one (and i know it sounds cliche but still) we will have power in numbers to overthrow which can lead to a revolt which then could lead to change RIP Fred Hampton and POWER TO THE PEOPLE ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
I Find myself convicted by his words. Praxis and theory have a mutual relationship. I need not forget this. I believe that the core of socialism, as an ideology, should be compassion, nurturing and kindness. This is what distinguishes it from exploitative and predatory nature of capitalism. It is, first and foremost, a moral position. All power to all people. ❤️&✊🏾
I love Fred. What I would like to know is where his political outlook came from? Who taught this teacher? Who lead this leader? Because he really was one very very very clever, intelligent, empathetic, dignified human being.
It’s one thing having studied the lives and literature of the names listed above but another to EMBODY the voice of a revolutionary in such a way that you naturally gravitated toward leadership . That to me is what I question.
@@RearviewWisdom I think I understand what you're saying but not sure. To my mind, Fred Hampton believed in and did both those things and believed that both were essential. Thats why he stands out to me.
Rest in peace. The argentine revolutionary Che Guevara said right before his death “Shoot me, you will only kill a man”. The same can be said of Fred Hampton. He may have been killed, but his legacy, and his fight, will live on. Fred Hampton is a martyr, he died for a cause worth dying for, and for that he will always be remembered. The United States will one day be a socialist nation, and it will be men like Fred Hampton, Eugene Debbs and Thomas Paine who will be our new founding fathers.
@johnfreddy78 Mao didn't lol. Besides he literally ended the civil war, defeated fascists (both Chinese and Japan) and had effectively ended warlordism. Che is similar. He was a bit of a rich boy, traveled for his own gain only to see poverty and suffering. He came back, helped lead a revolution which kicked out capitalist forces in Cuba, which had kept the people poor and uneducated. Despie Che being able to live a comfortable life in Cuba, he left it to export the revolution.
He was so young, and so enlightened that they feared him enough to take him down in an ambush....knowing no one would hold them accountable, they cut him down before he even reached his prime. He was assassinated at 21, at 21 years old! Again, just heartbreaking. The Panthers had such a beautiful vision for us, and I truly believe had they only had the numbers and the allies to operate...they might have survived the heroin epidemic and the illegal government surveillance and held it together to see it come to fruition.
🚨 We Honour Fred Hampton. We are grateful for everything he stood & died for! Ecclesiasticus 44:1-3 [1]Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. [2]The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning. [3]Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies:
But the struggle of the Black Panthers can never be replicated again, and that’s what most tragic. This saturation of identity and its subsequent identity politics which includes the reactionary forms of “intersectionality “ obfuscates class struggle. Unfortunately identity struggles have little universal value. However, those mass produced BLM t shirts and masks in made in China and Bangledesh are exploiting the lives of brown men and women abroad. That coffee we drink every morning, that sugar we put in it can come from brown farmers in India- it is the oppression of lives in the name of capital which has universality- as Hampton said racism is merely a “byproduct “ of capitalism.
That is my moms fist in the air with the pencil at 2:40. She cooked all the food in the children's food program. They made her a white woman Judas and the Black Messiah
He was so YOUNG and INTELLIGENT! And to think he was murdered by the police as a political threat at age 21 shows how much Fred Hampton accomplished in such a short amount of time! He was strong, brave, and *brilliant* ! Not to mention handsome as all getout!
"X power to those we left out" True sign of intelligence. I can't cover everything and I know that, so we leave it open for those continuing our fight in the future. Those we never will know are still included in our fight today. Beautiful.
“We’re gonna have to start getting out there with the people and a lot of times we think we’re better than the people but that’s an insult and that’s criminal to think you’re better than the people”
hello, that movie was made by billion dollar conglomerates and black capitalists, they will water down his radical messages and make his messages more palatable for entertainment, fred would've hated this because it's everything he's against. we shouldn't support it.
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Is there a copy of this that has been cleaned up to unleash the power of his voice? I appreciate the video, even if it sounds like he's talking through a soup can, but we can do the man justice with some application of modern technology.
Fred was a people’s person and his message was social revolution that needs to be heard today looking at the greedy ass lying power seeking politicians and murdersome police officers, he spoke the buttnaked ass truth as my deceased cousin used to say. A revolutionary is one of heart, mind and soul taken in small or large deeds done everyday in one’s life!
Fred Hampton is one of the greatest Americans to ever live If i ever have a son will name him John Frederick After John Brown, Frederick Douglas, and Fred Hampton. They are my heros.
Big #Salute to Fred Hampton and the original Black Panther Party for their strength . This means more than anything now because of that warrant from 67 years ago being found for Carolyn Bryant after kidnapping and killing Emmitt Till . Now I see why he was so important to Tupac . Just by the way Pac talked so intelligent you could tell he was inspired by Fred Hampton
@@joewhitehead3 they don’t go into the full detail with Martin Luther King. (We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. MLK quote ) this something they would not teach in school including MX
@@joewhitehead3 They didn't teach how he was a socialist and argued for reparations and was against the Vietnam war. They taught a very bland version actually. An in offensive one that if anyone actually followed they'd go nowhere but their house
The struggle continues. Today we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Gaza. The working class is rising and the empire is trembling. We must not falter, comrades. From every river to every sea, ALL the people will be free!
