The Murder of Fred Hampton
The Murder of Fred Hampton began as a film portrait of Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party, but half way through the shoot, Hampton was murdered by Chicago policeman.
In an infamous moment in Chicago history and politics, over a dozen policeman burst into Hampton's apartment while its occupants were sleeping, killing Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark and brutalizing the other occupants.
Filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk arrived a few hours later to shoot film footage of the crime scene that was later used to contradict news reports and police testimony.
"You can jail the revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution…You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hunton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting." - Fred Hampton.
Recently restored and reworked by Gray, The Murder of Fred Hampton is a chilling slice of American history. (Excerpt from mike-gray.org)
Carrie Lynn, its clear you have been conditioned into believing you belong to a race. When you are born, you are born human into a world of different people and when you die you are buried the same way, with all kinds of people. Victims never write history but the victorious do.
The history you were told was all a lie from the beginning. An African man could never come to South America and write history about its people, he'd leave that to the south americans and learn from their experience. In the same way, a foreigner could not have come to Africa and given the world the history of Africa without hearing it from the peoole first and trying to condition the world for decades into believing all he wanted them to believe.
Racism was always built on greed, the pursuit for money and marginalization for self growth. It never empowers any set of people, instead it destroys them mentally, generationally and humanly. Turns them into animals and all this was created by someone/a group of people who wanted to keep all the profits made from their exploitation to themselves and exempt others from discovering the hidden treasures and wealth of a continent.
Life is about common sense. The mind is an internal tool. Step out of the world for a second and use it. Stop being deceived into thinking you are different. The real fact is we all hailed from Africa as "whites" did exist in Africa way before history but the difference is that they were not called whites or separated from other groups and neither were they seen as different. They were seen as HUMANS. Don't believe me, ask people from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Algeria, Morocco and more about their history dating back to their ancestors. Its the same thing as the vikings, everyone was out to explore land and claim territory.
Your comments sadly make Americans look worse as the truth is bitter, you live in a very divided world. One with very poor self education and a lot of mind programming. Step out of your comfort zone and live in the shoes of other cultures, then you can comment about what you feel they should have done or what they did not do. Ignorance is bliss.
How many people know about a multi-racial coalition spear-headed by Black Panther leaders around the time of Fred Hampton's murder. There's a little known fact that they helped a group of poor Southern Whites who migrated to Chicago. They formed what was called the Young Patriot Organization. Porta Rican immigrants formed the Young Lords. These two along with the Chicago Black Panthers formed the original Rainbow Coalition
Chicago. The top criminal city of the top criminal country of the world.
Hey Carrie (hope you're still following)
It makes me really sad that after all the years the many races of this country have lived together, there are still people that haven't taken time to discover what is really "the deal" is on their own, but have only repeated what they've heard or been fed by the ignorance and hatred of the past.
Certainly not for ME, but for your own edification, please investigate (just a little bit) at the real cause people who have suffered being stripped of our identity, decimated family structure, inferior education, and Willie Lynch brainwash, still continue to suffer the psychosis that has never been treated, only wiped over, but have still managed to struggle our way to some of the HIGHEST levels of government, education, entertainment, sports, religion, and every segment of society IN SPITE OF the continued racial hatred that divides our country.
Opinions like yours are the kind of poison that continue to "taint the kool-aid" in our country. TAKE THE CHALLENGE, I beg, to investigate on your own and see that if it weren't for dedicated people in the struggle that continue to push forward beyond what the government issue has been, the powder keg of discontent would have exploded a long time ago, and self-righteous fanatics like YOU would probably be brutally beaten and DEAD!
Hopefully you are intelligent enough to read and educate yourself to learn how ALL minorities have suffered at the hands of bigoted racists like you who think you are the only one who has worked hard and struggled to make a life for themselves and their families... I'm praying HARD that the kind of ignorant rhetoric you spew will die off like a diseased limb on a tree, so it can be drug off and disposed of with all the other trash of the world. Hope you live long to learn the TRUE STORY and get a CLUE... God BLESS!!!
Fred Hampton: What an amazing, articulate and fearless 21 year old at the time of his assassination. The world was truly hurt by the loss of this young man of dignity and dedication.
Carrie Lynn is a joke and a troll. Not sure what her "real" third job is...
Actually @T-ROY your commentary is brilliant, poignant and well thought through. I barely noticed the spelling until you brought it up. :) You're a writer and I wish I knew your blog site. Also, you speak to exactly what BPP was about. They understood racism was a divide and conquer tactic. They said, "we don't fight fire with fire--we fight fire with water." If folk kept getting caught up in racism, they would never be able to fight the real target of their work. Ending capitalism and establishing "All Power to the People"--ALL People, by the by. BPP helped politicize many, many, gangs and organizations of every color and creed and created alliances all over the world. BPP was big. And most certainly, they were a lot of things--but whiners they were not. Like, AT ALL. If nothing else (there was plenty however), BPP is the reason why public schools offer free breakfast every morning. They served over 50,000 meals a week to children for free all over the country. And that's just breakfast. So there's that.
Back to you @ T-ROY Well done. You're on to something...
Well spoke @Alex Peters, i couldn't have said it better myself.
Carrie Lynn is black trying to act WHITE.
I can't take this serisouily, he looks and sounds like Jules, in pulp fiction. "All we want is peace, and if you won't give us peace, i'll blow your head off motherf--ker!". "Say 'what' one more time. i dare you motherf--ker!".
Why we are still so racist in the 21st century. We claim to be most civilized, educated, well mannered and so humane. What it makes difference If someone is black, white or brown. Are we all not humans ? Are there no bad people in all races ?
Then why is that so ........
People: Stop feeding the trolls.
Kthnx, bye.
How about if you don't like the documentary don't f***** watch it.
As soon as I read Carrie Lynn's "I've been a civilian/military police officer" statement it became far too obvious why she is spouting this nonsense.
Simple police state indoctrination. Prime example. Nuff said.
Brian, thanks for making my read worthwhile.
Racism is certainly not new, the desire to identify with your own and suspect out groups is human nature. Overcoming this type of thinking is possible, especially when we start to see members of other races as individuals, with unique stories, and struggles, which, at the end of the day, might mirror our own more than many of us care to admit. Those in power are well aware of racial mistrust, tensions and divides and have acted to exaserbate them in order to maintain and increase their control.
The Blacks and Mexicans haven't destroyed your economy, white bankers did that. Middle Easterners haven't sent your young men and women off to die in a pointless war. Your government has. And in this vein, how many of your fallen heros have names like Sanchez? Blacks and Mexicans bleed and die along side White American teenagers, please dont forget that. No wonder America is so easily controlled.... so many of you eat this divisive drivel up and beg for seconds.
"History is written by the victors" W. Churchill
Carrie Lynn has left the board, She had to go to her job as a:
Military Officer
Civilian Officer
Fashion Designer
and her other 3 jobs.
Carrie Lynn, whether she was just baiting or for real is important to discourse. We need her to speak her mind and the way she feels. Indeed, the hate, and ignorance she has in her doesn't come from nowhere. If comes from a real place. Whether she is incapable of having her own opinions and is just spouting off what she has heard in the stereotypically arena or she really feels that blacks, etc..., are, dare i say, inferior...it is important that she his heard. Please, all hater's speak your mind and, speak it often, and maybe you will run in to some astute individual with a free critical mind able to see through all the bullshit that you can't. Carrie lynn, sometimes the truth is the hardest thing to accept. And don't let anyone tell you that ignorance is bliss......
Maybe, slowly, if carrie lynn is for real, this thread will some how change her thoughts on things and broaden her mind thereby setting her free from the pain that she causes herself.
Peace,
Jesus :0)
Granted, Carrie Lynn is way out of line. BUT, look at the people who YOU assosiate with? Do they look like you? Are they the same color as you? Have YOU yourself laughed at racial jokes in your life or still do? Do you feel safer with your OWN race? Would you have a person of a different race teaching your kids about YOUR culture? Do you feel safe being the only one of your race in a group of another?
I'm am most certainly not racist, but unfortuneatly this is a f%$ked up world where race places a big part whether you like it or not...Carrie ,you were way out of line and way to blunt!
i know what it is carrie likes black ppl why would anybody keep making comments about ppl she can't stand yeah ms.carrie got the fever lol
white folks are trashy too not just blacks and mexicans get it straight carrie
For some reason I keep reading Carrie Lynn's posts in a typical ghetto girl accent...
Hi Brian,
I read your comment and really had a lot of respect for what you had to say and the way it was articulated. You mentioned Bobby B, I have to say honestly, after reading a few comments made by Ms. Carrie, I stopped reading. Your insight made me curious enough to want to watch the doc (I still haven't) and know a little bit about Mr.B. After reading just one of his comments I now have a question for Vlatko. Comments with foul language are removed, shouldn't racial epithets fall into that category? Just asking.
I'll admit. I trusted the "generally" accepted versions of both what The Black Panther Party stood for and were involved in during this period. My choice to view this doc was fueled by curiosity. I needed to see for myself.
It amazes me how well the party decoded the esoteric racist "policies" durig their generation. The doc exposes much more than an assasination, cover-up, collusion & conspiracy. In the broader sense we see how even 50 years since, the status quo is justified and still defended, making the Carrie Lynn/ Bobby B thing relevant.
Though their methods can be debated there is no question the doc depicts The Black Panther Party as one which promoted a more politically aware, socially conscience & astute poor community. That the majority were/are black should be no surprise considering certain historical truths which have not been addressed and/or remedied affectively.
To the point: As none of the posts are from Bill Gates or "somesuch" each one of us is either carving out or trying to hold onto our "slice" of a pie none of us created or has any real control of. What would any one of us do when we believe the system by which we do this is skewed against us and rigged either by design or manipulation? I personally would work for equality and be careful that "equality" is not turned into a dirty word.
50 years later the irony is The Tea Party and Black Panther Party have some things in common.
A note: Much like clutter blidness Carrie Lynn refuses to count her "black friends" and the many "blacks" who work hard every day as examples of what it means to be black in her world.
Unfortunately, she is lauded by Bobby B and the cycle (now endorsed) continues.
Thank you all for standing up to the hatred and bigotry that is Carrie Lynn, I appreciate and applaud you.
Signed,
A Black Woman
Carrie Lynn,
I just have one favor to ask of you, I don't think it should be difficult, since you are so proud of how you feel. You say you have Black friends? Ask one of them to read the comments you've posted here. Get their opinion. No need to report back with your findings, I'll assume the outcome.