#The Murder of Fred Hampton

[triviallytrue]

my guy, you are the sycophantic liberal the post was complaining about

#did the fbi preserve our constitutional rights when it extralegally murdered fred hampton #or spent over a decade after 9/11 spying on and harassing muslim populations in the US

[petewentzisblack1312]

hii! here's my other piece from the zine Sing It Like The Kids That Are Mean To You (created by @thrashbeatles and laid out by @birdloaf, get your physical copy here (when its in stock) and your digital copy here)

Pete Wentz is, in many ways, the driving force behind Fall Out Boy, and he is a biracial black man. It is no surprise, then, that blackness is ever-present within the band’s art, through genre, through lyrics, through politics. Let’s talk about how race colours their work.

            To start, black genre influences are scattered throughout the band’s discography. The album art of Take This to Your Grave is an homage to John Coltrane’s iconic album Blue Train. Infinity on High is filled to the brim with funk, soul and R&B influences on songs like I’m Like a Lawyer with the Way I’m Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You) and This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race. American Beauty/American Psycho was an experiment in emulating mixtape culture, filled with samples and electronic beats, and getting its own remix album, Make America Psycho Again. M A  N   I    A drew its influence from dancehall and reggae, especially on Sunshine Riptide and HOLD ME TIGHT OR DON’T. They haven’t been shy about incorporating black genres into their work, and in fact, it seems to be a staple for them.

            Additionally, Pete Wentz’s lyricism in and of itself is in fact heavily influenced by black art, and one could argue it is quintessentially the work of a black poet. In his lyrics are strategic plays on words, inversions and remixes of classic phrases, and an endless stream of cultural references, all akin to the wit and flow of a rapper. Think lines like “I’m a painter and I’m drawing a blank,” or “You take the full, full truth and you pour some out.” Indeed, in his words you’ll even find braggadocio, a staple in hip hop, though his comes with a helping of self-deprecation, like in the line “Signing off, I’m alright in bed but I’m better with a pen/The kid was alright then it went to his head.” This is arguably a feature which endears so many people to his work, and it is the one which shows his blackness most evidently.

            Finally, while Fall Out Boy itself is not an overtly political act, the band has at times used their music to espouse black politics. In You’re Crashing, But You’re No Wave, the lyrics tell the story of Fred Hampton Jr’s conviction for aggravated arson following the 1992 LA riots protesting the acquittal of the police officers who murdered Rodney King. The song Novocaine also deals with black politics, being inspired by the murder of Trayvon Martin and primarily about the corruption of and threat posed by the police to black youth.

            The core idea behind Fall Out Boy is to make music “for the kids who feel like they don’t fit in anywhere”. When that sentiment is espoused by a man who grew up as part of the only black family in his neighbourhood, it gains a whole new meaning. Fall Out Boy is, in a very real way, for niggas.

#fall out boy #pete wentz #ioh #futct #tttyg #folie a deux #ab/ap #mania #dils declares #dils dissects #tagging this for people to see it sorryyyyy #srar #sing it like the kids that are mean to you zine #sing it zine

[ardourie]

and obv i wasn’t alive during that time i only have historical accounts and family that lived during it but ppl rlly don’t get the full gravity of how these civil rights leaders were truly uniting people, fred hampton was creating such a mass of movement and love and community that he had ppl in the police force putting down their guns and white people coming down to black neighborhoods just to hear him speak, they shot him to death at his the of 21 while he slept bc, and im quoting the literal fbi files “we feared a black messiah unifying people” if u want to know why so many of our communities r in disarray it’s because they wiped out an entire generation of men and women by jailing or drugs or regular murder for fighting back, these things are not coincidental, theses groups didn’t randomly disband, both parties republican and democrat saw us and anyone who supported our liberation as a threat, theirs a reason why the places where we are highest in population are gerrymandered to all hell, and theirs a reason democrats go to these places preaching how they’ll help and then turn around to institutionalize us even more when they take office

[garadinervi]

Emory Douglas, «The Black Panther» Newspaper, vol. 4, no. 2 (Fred Hampton murdered), 1969 [MoMA, New York, NY. © Emory Douglas / ARS, New York]

#graphic design #newspaper #magazine #cover #fred hampton #emory douglas #the black panther #black panther party #bpp #moma #the museum of modern art #1960s

[antifainternational]

Fred Hampton. Murdered by Chicago PD 53 years ago today. Never forget. Never forgive.

#antifa #fred hampton #original antifa #never forget never forgive #antifascist #antifascism

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 4 December 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed by police in Chicago. Hampton was murdered while asleep in his bed during a raid on his apartment by Chicago Police in conjunction with the FBI. Hampton had been drugged earlier in the evening by an FBI informant, who also told agents the location of Hampton's bed, where he slept alongside his nine-month pregnant fiancée, Akua Njeri. Several other Panthers were injured. Aged just 21, Hampton was an active, charismatic and effective organiser, who had been making significant inroads into making links with working class whites and building a "Rainbow Coalition" including Puerto Rican, Native American, Chicane, white and Chinese-American radicals. Hampton and Clark were amongst the most prominent victims of the FBI's COINTELPRO program, which amongst other things was directed by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to "prevent the rise of a Black Messiah". https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2152221851629620/?type=3

[frida-kahl-of-the-rocky-horror]

Antisemitism is evil

Genocide against the Palestinians is evil

If you disagree with either of these, please leave my page

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Further Reading:

Yes it’s a Genocide

TL;DR: there are many classifications of genocide, and one of such classifications is ethnic cleansing. Israeli military and government forces claim they are doing a Nakba 2. The first Nakba is the definition of ethnic cleansing, by UN definitions, which is a form of genocide. Israel has admitted that they are committing genocide.

No criticizing Israel is not antisemitic

TL;DR: if criticism of Israel or being pro Palestinian equates being antisemitic, then here is a list of raging antisemites (direct quotes included): Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein (is Jewish), Stephen Hawking, Frida Kahlo (is Jewish), Noam Chomsky (is Jewish), DJ KHALED, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Carter, Ben and Jerry (the ice cream people), Bernie Sanders (is Jewish), and Susan Sarandon.

Why Israel hates Palestinians (and why it’s unjustified)

TL;DR: Early post Zionist radical philosophy was to get back at the Germans and kill 6 million Germans senselessly for their systemic murder of Jews. This was rejected by Israel, but this thought process and reaction to historic European antisemitism was channelled into mistreatment of Palestinians. Europe is to blame yet Palestinians are the ones suffering,

I am very well read

TL;DR: Someone called be a slur and told me to pick up a book, I responded with a list of books which I read, a good chunk of which are from pro Israel Zionists and anti Israel Jewish and Palestinian academics

Antisemitism Post #1

TL;DR: a critique of white leftists who thing all Jewish people must categorize themselves as “good Jew” or “bad Jew”. Ethnonationalism like Zionism is dangerous but so is bigotry such as antisemitism. I also use my personal story of hating Belgians.

Antisemitism Post #2

TL;DR: if you replace “Israeli” with any other ethnicity or nationality and it’s bigoted, then your statement is antisemitic. If your statement isn’t bigoted and a rightful criticism of government or military positions and actions, it’s not antisemitic. It’s not antisemitic to criticize a genocide.

Patriotism vs Nationalism vs Jingoism

TL;DR: A Patriot loves their country, she celebrates when it does right and criticizes it when it does wrong. A Nationalist loves their country, she celebrates it when it does right and ignores when it does wrong. A Jingoist loves their country (or at least a specific version of it), celebrates when it is right and when it is wrong, because their country is unable to do wrong in their eyes. Everything can be justified.

Antisemitism Post #3

TL;DR: the Jews don’t control Hollywood.

Rebutting the “It’s Complicated” Claim

TL;DR: it’s not complicated, it’s apartheid

Antisemitism Post #4

TL;DR: Israel is Antisemitic, non Ashkenazi Jews frequently face discrimination, especially in Netanyahu’s Israel, but it’s always been this way with Yiddish language bans, forced sterilization of Ethiopian Jews, and European supremacy in all corners of government

Extremism is Sometimes Justified

TL;DR: one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter, and if you claim all extremism is bad, you support European colonial control of Africa, Haiti, the USA, and so many other evil regimes.

Yes Israel is a Colonial Project

TL;DR: Direct sources from the founders of Zionism calling the creation of Israel a colonial project and referring to Palestinians as the indigenous peoples who are in the way

Continued:

In a few months more journalists have died in Gaza than in WW2.

Gaza: Israeli company plans luxury beach side Apartment on the ruins of Gaza

A Message from a Palestinian Friend

People who are not Israeli or Palestinian are allowed to engage in discourse on this issue, especially Americans

Goat Jewish Boi Slays

The Post that Blew Up

Debunking idiotic Israeli arguments

Where’d you Come From, Where’d you Go

USA is the most diverse country on earth

Direct quote from an Israeli cabinet minister calling this conflict a war on Gaza not a war on Hamas (what happened to the plot??)

I love Jewish men who love humanity

Israel doesn’t care about peace

#israel #palestine #gaza strip #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza genocide #gazaunderattack #news on gaza #save gaza #gaza #free gaza #i/p conflict #i/p #jumblr #muslumblr #jerusalem #don’t be antisemitic just be anti genocide #anti zionisim #i stand with gaza #gazaunderfire #stand with gaza #war on gaza #i stand with palestine #i stand with israel #zionism is sexy #irish solidarity with palestine #solidarity #jews for palestine #jews for ceasefire #israeli #am yisrael chai

[newsfromstolenland]

every so often I try to remind white people that they murdered martin luther king just as surely as they murdered fred hampton

advocates of non-violence who push for change are not spared from the white supremacist violence faced by revolutionaries. because to the state and the white ruling class any change is viewed as a violent revolution, and is met with violence

don't give the state a monopoly on violence. don't give white people a monopoly on violence.

#mine #and every time i bring this up. liberals get very mad at me. oh well #racism #white supremacy

[joeywreck]

The U.S. government got away with murdering Fred Hampton 53 years ago today.

#fred hampton #hampton #socialism #fbi #assassinations #cia #history

[morbidology]

On a scorching hot day in the deep south of Money, Mississippi, on August 24th, 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago, went to Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market. He had innocently gone there to purchase some candy, but what happened next would change the course of history. Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year-old white store clerk, accused Emmett of whistling at her and grabbing her. This accusation was a violation of the Jim Crow social code, which was a set of laws and customs that enforced segregation and discrimination against African Americans.

The tragic events that followed began in the early hours of August 28th, when Carolyn, her husband Roy, and his half-brother John Miliam, arrived at the home of Mose Wright, where Emmett had been staying. Emmett's great-aunt attempted to offer them money to avoid any trouble, but it was futile. They forcefully grabbed Emmett, shoved him into their truck, dropped Carolyn off at home, and then drove to an isolated barn. There, they brutally pistol-whipped and beat Emmett before shooting him dead and tossing his lifeless body into the Tallahatchie River.

Two days later, Emmett's body was found, and his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago. However, his face was so mutilated that it was unrecognizable. This brutal slaying sparked outrage and gave a sense of urgency to the civil rights movement. The murderers, Bryant and Miliam, were eventually indicted for murder, and during the trial, an African American man named Willie Louis testified against the two white men. Louis had witnessed Emmett walking home with Bryant and Miliam, and heard the beating taking place in the barn. His testimony was a “godsend” to Emmett's family, but it also put him in great danger in the segregated south. Amazingly, nothing untoward happened to him afterward.

The trial was anything but fair. The jury members were often drunk, and many male white spectators carried handguns. During the trial, Bryant and Miliam confessed that they had taken Emmett that night, but claimed that they had let him go. The defense even argued that the body could have been anyone's and not Emmett's. Shockingly, an all-white, all-male jury acquitted both men. Years later, some of the jury members would admit that they knew the two men were guilty but saw nothing wrong with white men killing African Americans.

At the 60 year anniversary of Emmett’s murder, his family and friends gathered at his grave. Also in attendance was Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown Sr., the father of Michael Brown Jr. “Black lives matter. Black lives mattered when Emmett was killed. Black lives mattered when Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed. Black lives matter even today,” said U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush.

In 2017, Carolyn Bryant admitted that she had fabricated the story and that Emmett hadn't touched her or attempted to. Her admission came too late for Emmett, who tragically lost his life in the most brutal and horrific way. Carolyn Bryant passed away at the age of 88 on April 27th, 2023.

#Emmett Till #True Crime #Racism #Civil Rights

[auroraluciferi]

Our Breakfast for Children program is feeding a lot of children and the people understand our Breakfast for Children program.

We sayin’ something like this—we saying that theory’s cool, but theory with no practice ain’t shit. You got to have both of them—the two go together. We have a theory about feeding kids free. What’d we do? We put it into practice. That’s how people learn.

A lot of people don’t know how serious the thing is. They think the children we feed ain’t really hungry. I don’t know five year old kids that can act well, but I know that if they not hungry we sure got some actors.

We got five year old actors that could take the Academy Award. Last week they had a whole week dedicated to the hungry in Chicago. Talking ’bout the starvation rate here that went up 15%. Over here where everybody should be eating. Why? Because of capitalism.

What are we doing? The Breakfast for Children program.

We are running it in a socialistic manner. People came and took our program, saw it in a socialistic fashion not even knowing it was socialism.

People are gonna take our program and tell us to go on to a higher level. They gonna take that program and work it in a socialistic manner. What’d the pig say? He say, “Nigger—you like communism?” “No sir, I’m scared of it.” “You like socialism?” “No Sir, I’m scared of it.” “You like the breakfast for children program?” “Yes sir, I’d die for it”. Pig said, “Nigger, that program is a socialistic program.”

“I don’t give a fuck if it’s Communism. You put your hands on that program motherfucker and I’ll blow your motherfucking brains out.“

And he knew it. We been educating him, not by reading matter, but through observation and participation. By letting him come and work our program.

Not theory and theory alone, but theory and practice. The two go together. We not only thought about the Marxist-Leninist theory—we put it into practice.

This is what the Black Panther Party is about.

You Can Murder a Liberator, but You Can’t Murder Liberation

- Fred Hampton (1972)

#fred hampton #black panther #black panthers #socialism #communism #capitalism #us #united states #politics #police #breakfast #quote #praxis

[bfpnola]

introductory excerpts on the rainbow coalition:

The Rainbow Coalition was an antiracist, anticlass[1] multicultural movement founded April 4, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois by Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party, along with William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots Organization and José Cha Cha Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords. It was the first of several 20th century black-led organizations to use the "rainbow coalition" concept.[2]

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The Rainbow Coalition soon included various radical socialist community groups like the Lincoln Park Poor People's Coalition,[3] later, the coalition was joined nationwide by the Students for a Democratic Society ("SDS"), the Brown Berets, the American Indian Movement and the Red Guard Party. In April 1969, Hampton called several press conferences to announce that this "Rainbow Coalition" had formed. Some of the things the coalition engaged in joint action against were poverty, corruption, racism, police brutality, and substandard housing.[4] The participating groups supported each other at protests, strikes, and demonstrations where they had a common cause.[5][6]

The coalition later included many other local groups like Rising Up Angry, and Mothers and Others. The Coalition also brokered treaties to end crime and gang violence. Hampton, Jimenez and their colleagues believed that the Richard J. Daley Democratic Party machine in Chicago used gang wars to consolidate their own political positions by gaining funding for law enforcement and dramatizing crime rather than underlying social issues.[citation needed][7]

The coalition eventually collapsed under duress from constant harassment by local and federal law enforcement, including the murder of Hampton.[6]

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The phrase "rainbow coalition" was co-opted over the years by Reverend Jesse Jackson, who eventually appropriated the name in forming his own, more moderate coalition, Rainbow/PUSH. Some scholars, including Peniel Joseph, assert that the original rainbow coalition concept was a prerequisite for the multicultural coalition that Barack Obama built his political career upon.[11]

The Rainbow Coalition youth—made up of Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots—also launched free breakfast programs that were supported by donations from community businesses and ran free daycare centers for neighborhood children. Several operations were upheld by the women of the Black Panthers and women’s focus groups like the Young Lordettes and Mothers and Others (MAO). The federal government institutionalized the School Breakfast Program in 1975.

“We’re gonna fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism not with racism, but with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism, but with socialism… We’re gonna fight with all of us people getting together and having an international proletariat revolution,” Hampton was recorded saying.

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In public appearances, the Rainbow Coalition was backed by community residents and Black and brown street gangs—but they also had the support of unions, Independent Precinct Organizations, college students and activists who supported the movement through Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Rising Up Angry, and countless other organizations. Their allies included Concerned Citizens of Lincoln Park, the West Town Concerned Citizens Coalition, the Northside Cooperative Ministry, Neighborhood Commons Organization, and Voice of the People. “It was really based on common action,” said Mike Klonsky, a former Chicago leader of SDS (who, like Hampton and Cha-Cha, had a reward out for his arrest). “If there was a protest or a demonstration, the word would get out and we would all come to it and support each other. If somebody was arrested, we would all raise bail. If somebody was killed or shot by the police, we would all respond together.”

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In December of 1969, the FBI conducted an overnight raid on Hampton’s apartment with intelligence provided by an infiltrator. He had just been named spokesperson of the national Black Panther Party. A barrage of police bullets struck him in his sleep as he lay beside his pregnant fiance, Akua Njeri, who survived. Another occupant, Black Panther security chief Mark Clark, was also killed.  Distraught members of the Coalition unofficially disbanded, and a handful of the leadership went underground after Hampton’s assassination, fearing for their own safety. Thousands of people lined up to witness the open crime scene, while lawyers from the People’s Law Office disputed the later-disproved official police account, which had falsely claimed a heavy firefight on both sides. Having assassinated its most vocal leader, the Feds had effectively crushed the 1960s’ most promising push for united, cohesive social resistance in Chicago.

#reaux speaks #history #rainbow coalition #bipoc #resources #socialism #community #black power #black panther party #young lords #anti capitalism #chicano #indigenous #communism #wikipedia

[ardourie]

u cannot successfully tackle fascism if u don’t care about antiblackness, they rape and rob mother africa specifically for resources to keep capitalism going worldwide, it’s all connected and everytime we say this one of us gets murdered, fred hampton called for global alliance of all brown races positioning how black ppl r targeted as the root cause of americas tyranny, and they murdered him in his bed as he slept immediately after, i cant get the image of his blood soaked mattress out of my head

[garadinervi]

The Date: December 4, 1969 The Time: 4:45 a.m. The Place: 2337-2339 West Monroe Street The City: Chicago, IL

Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) Mark Clark (June 28, 1947 – December 4, 1969)

(image from: The Murder of Fred Hampton, The Film Group, 1971 (vimeo); restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, 2017, then Chicago Film Archives & UCLA, 2019)

#film #video #fred hampton #mark clark #bpp #black panther party #film group #ucla film & television archive #chicago film archives #1940s #1960s #1970s #2010s

[steampunkforever]

When people discuss the oppressive secret policing agencies, you'll often see organizations like the Stasi, Gestapo, NKVD, Political-Social Brigade, FSB, and Ministry of State Security listed as these orwellian entities ordained to crush political dissidents and act as muscle carrying out the bidding of Machiavellian regimes. Rarely do you see the FBI listed in there.

You can probably boil this down to the past 30 years of overt targeting of conservative groups (there was a congressional hearing about this last year) where ACAB-leaning demographics aren't necessarily going to complain about the people who want them dead getting jailed. More recent films like Imperium and Blackkklansman (though the latter isn't FBI) echo this, where members of a special taskforce go undercover to infiltrate and target white supremacist dissidents, and are overall painted as the good guys who uphold progressive values of truth justice and racial equity.

These are the G-Men coming to convict those that the corrupt cops won't, like the guys from Killers of the Flower Moon. It's like copaganda for the federal government specifically, made by people who seemingly forget the FBI's harassment and surveillance of the BLM movement. Judas and the Black Messiah crushes any illusion of the FBI as anything more than a secret police force bent on subduing the population squirming under its grasp.

Don't get me wrong, Mulder, Scully, and Dale Cooper are my friends. I don't think there's anything wrong with the FBI being the good guys in film and TV. The G-Men in Killers of the Flower Moon, for example, were the ones who stopped the murders committed and covered up by corrupt lawmen. But Judas and the Black Messiah is just as much of a true story as Flower Moon, and the FBI very much did assassinate Fred Hampton.

The FBI infiltrator narrative has always been a fun, pulpy one. It's like a spy novel, but domestic. Undercover agents flirt with danger, and face fun dilemmas like "I'm starting to feel nice toward the men I'm about to stab in the back." Except instead of mobsters or drug runners, our FBI undercover is betraying civil rights leader Fred Hampton and eventually sending him to his death at the hands of an FBI death squad.

MLK's death will always be shrouded in enough conspiracy to cast a shadow of uncertainty on whether or not the FBI pulled the trigger, but Hamptons is clear cut. Shaka King's direction on Judas and the Black Messiah takes advantage of this, providing us with an intimate picture of Hampton's life and the events leading up to his assassination in an elegant, sophisticated piece of art that absolutely deserves every accolade it got and more.

The film is only King's second feature, and he threads the needle of historic and present day commentary expertly, never seeming to soapbox while still crafting an elegant narrative around an injustice that many have heard of but few understand the gravity of.

Go watch it.

#filmposting #judas and the black messiah #shaka king #daniel kaluuya #film

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 23 November 1969, leading Black Panther Fred Hampton spoke at a meeting organised by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at the University of Illinois. Among those in attendance was Luis Kutner, a lawyer and, according to the New York Times, co-founder of Amnesty International. Unknown to Hampton, Kutner was an informant for the FBI, who reported on the meeting to his handler, and claimed that Hampton was "ranting and raving" and said that President Nixon was "a member of the 'capitalistic establishment'" and that "Nixon must die". Kutner said that he was telling the FBI this because of "its possible violation of Federal law". A few days later, the FBI had Hampton, aged just 21, drugged and murdered in his sleep. While outlets including the Times and Chicago Tribune described Kutner as a co-founder of Amnesty International for many years, in 2020, Amnesty put out a statement denying this, although they did acknowledge that Kutner was present at the founding of the organisation, and was on its advisory board in the 1960s. Learn more about the Panthers in these books by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/black-panthers https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2142950775890061/?type=3