Fred Hampton lived a short life by most people’s standards of longevity. As revolutionaries we know this to be false. Fred Hampton is still alive because Fred Hampton lives within us. Because, Fred Hampton is our ancestor he guides us because he left behind a legacy of thought provoking catalogs of his mind left in books, peoples hearts, videos, and roots that run deep in his son Fred Hampton Jr. Fred Hampton Jr. is the son of Fred Hampton and his partner and fiancé, Deborah Johnson aka Akua Njeri. Fred Hampton Jr. was born three weeks after the assassination of his father Fred Hampton Sr. The assassination was carried out in a joint operation of the FBI and Chicago Police. To stifle and neutralize any ‘Black Messiah’ due to the fascist and racist nature of the State. The program and its tactics were leaked to the public as counter intelligence aka cointelpro. Mark Clark was also murdered in the raid on the Hampton home on December 4, 1969.
Revolution is about change, love, life and Freedoms for all. However, Fred Hampton also conducted himself as an Evolved person and this is what brought about his murder by the State.
Fred Hampton was an evolutionary revolutionist who worked toward uniting all races in his words “uniting warriors of all tribes”.
These thoughts put into deeds to bring about unification of all workers untimely brought about his demise. However, lets discuss the LIFE of Fredrick Hampton.
Hampton was born on August 30, 1948 in a suburb of Chicago. Hampton became active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and assumed leadership of the Youth Council of the organization’s West Suburban Branch. In his capacity as an NAACP youth organizer, Hampton began to demonstrate his natural leadership abilities; from a community of 27,000, he was able to muster a youth group 500-members strong. He worked to get more and better recreational facilities established in the neighborhoods, and to improve educational resources for Maywood’s impoverished black community. Through his involvement with the NAACP, Hampton hoped to achieve social change through community organizing and nonviolent activism.
In November 1968 he joined the Black Panther Party’s nascent Illinois chapter, founded in late 1967 by Bob Brown, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer.
Hampton brokered a nonaggression pact. Emphasizing that racial and ethnic conflict between street groups would only keep its members entrenched in poverty, Hampton strove to forge a class-conscious, multi-racial alliance among the BPP, the Young Patriots Organization, and the Young Lords under the leadership of Jose Cha Cha Jimenez. (Wikipedia)
“We ain’t gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we’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’re gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That’s what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.
We have to understand very clearly that there’s a man in our community called a capitalist. Sometimes he’s black and sometimes he’s white. But that man has to be driven out of our community, because anybody who comes into the community to make profit off the people by exploiting them can be defined as a capitalist. And we don’t care how many programs they have, how long a dashiki they have. Because political power does not flow from the sleeve of a dashiki; political power flows from the barrel of a gun. It flows from the barrel of a gun! “ Fred Hampton!
In 1990, the Chicago City Council unanimously passed a resolution, introduced by Alderman Madeline Haithcock, commemorating December 4, 2004, as “Fred Hampton Day in Chicago”. The resolution read in part: “Fred Hampton, who was only 21 years old, made his mark in Chicago history not so much by his death as by the heroic efforts of his life and by his goals of empowering the most oppressed sector of Chicago’s Black community, bringing people into political life through participation in their own freedom fighting organization.”
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