-Fred Hampton was a black activist from Chicago – an extraordinary speaker, youth organizer for the NAACP.
-He joined the Black Panthers and shone so brightly that he was made chair of the Chicago chapter when he was only 20.
-He founded the Rainbow Coalition, which brought together Black and Latino activists and radical anti-poverty Catholics. He forged an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them make peace and work for social change.
-In 1967, when he was just 19, Hampton was identified by the FBI as a “radical threat.” The FBI tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation to get the groups he’d drawn together to distrust each other, and getting an FBI plant next to him as a bodyguard.
-(This is part of an illegal FBI program called COINTELPRO, which aimed to paint black civil rights activists (among others) as violent and threatening. If you’ve only seen pictures of the Black Panthers as armed and dangerous revolutionaries, and never heard of their children’s breakfast program, their community health clinics, or their “copwatch” patrols, this is why. It’s because COINTELPRO was a highly successful work of political propaganda.)
-On December 3, 1969, Hampton taught a political education course at a local church, and then several Panthers gathered at his apartment for a late dinner. One of them was the FBI plant bodyguard, who drugged Hampton.
-At 4:45 AM on December 4, a squad of Chicago Police officers and FBI agents with a warrant to search for weapons stormed the apartment. Investigations later showed they fired between 90 and 99 times. The Panther on security detail, Mark Clark, was holding a shotgun. He was shot, and the gun went off into the ceiling. This was the only shot fired by the Panthers.
-Fred Hampton, in another room, didn’t awaken. He was shot in his bed. Twice, in the head, at point-blank range. He was 21.
-Four weeks after witnessing Hampton’s death, his finance Deborah Johnson gave birth to their son, Fred Hampton Jr. That’s him in the photograph, visiting the grave of a father who died before he was born. A resting place riddled with bullets.
I understand what you mean but I don’t think this comes from a place of “fear.”
I think it does. Cops were terrified of Hampton. They had to have him drugged before they were brave enough to storm in and murder him in his sleep. Remember how scared Dorner made cops?
Dorner was a soldier whereas Hampton was an activist.
Fred Hampton absolutely blurred the line between soldier and activist. Honestly, what is more scary: one soldier or an activist who is building an army?
The soldier when it comes to an actual fight.
Agree to disagree I guess.
Anybody can shoot a gun with relative accuracy at combat ranges. Don’t be ridiculous, we aren’t creating supersoldiers here.
There’s a difference between shooting at paper targets and targets that can move and return fire. Training on a range isn’t going to make you a good hunter either.
My point is you don’t have to be battle trained to be dangerous.
Yes but the question asked was which was more dangerous and IMO it’s the guy with real combat experience.
No one who shoots this today is thinking about any of that.
There is fear imprinted in their “cop DNA”.
Rofl. Yeah… that’s it, you’ve solved it.
Edit: You people understand their bullets mean waaaaay more than your online hot takes right?
Then go ahead, here’s your chance; inform us.
Oh you’re so edgy you might as well be emo.
?? I was honestly interested in hearing your take.
What was edgy about my comment? Was it the semi-colon?
Two things: first, take a writing course.
And second, “no.” I am so tired of having to lay down fucking bread crumbs - I’m done. It’s not my job to get C students up to speed, and I really don’t care whether or not your understand my (or any) point.
Yea. Why would they fear him? He’s a dead man, not an acorn.
Fred Hampton is the acorn pigs fear most. the tree he grows will end their existence
He obviously still has a hold over them mentally. If that isn’t power I don’t know what is.
Hate comes from fear.
If we take what you’re saying as truth then that means people who suffer from anxiety are more likely to be hateful.
I don’t think that’s true. I think fear certainly plays a part but I can very safely say I hate people that I would never be afraid of.
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Suffering is yet to come
Not really. It has more in common with disgust. I know it’s a common trope though.
I remember teachers trying to make us kids feel better when someone had gotten bullied. “He’s just jealous of you”. Even then it struck me as something incredibly forced and not true. Having heard bullies laugh about the sentiment afterwards gives me reason to think they weren’t jealous.
The same “lie” is being fed now, only in a different format. “They were afraid of him”. No, they really aren’t afraid.
Bullying is very much fear based. People while high self worth do not bully others. Bullying is always an internal weakness lashing out.
You may only remember jealousy as one reason but there are many reasons for bullying others but at its root it’s an internal fear of inferiority.
When you recall the bullied reacting to this asssessment, what do you imagine the response would be; immediate self reflection?
Yes, it’s fear-based. But the bullies do not feel fear or jealousy. That is a completely fabricated reason, made to comfort the bullied.
The bullies want to make others feel smaller. It has more to do with lack of empathy, and nothing to do with fear.
Why would the bullied feel self-reflection for being lied to by parents/teachers etc? I think you got it the other way around.
I do not expect them to self-reflect. I expect them to deflect. Which could be attributed to them laughing at explanations for why they are bullies.
Belief that they are laughing because they know it is false is not back up by the behavior profile.
For example, if someone told Trump he has narcissist personality disorder because his father refused him the lover and praise he craved as a child, if he stopped and pondered the accusation, it’s actually more likely to be false than if he explosively reflects the accusation.
There are well defined behavior patterns. These patterns are continuously being developers and reworked but the implication is that we are not these unique snowflakes.
We are actually incredibly predictable at an individual level and our true motivations are knowable even if we refuse to acknowledge it; especially when we emotionally reject acknowledgment.
I asked why the bullied would feel self-reflection, as if its their fault for being bullied?
What if i said that the bullies grew up in happy families, well adjusted. They just have/had a superiority complex and looked down on others. Not all fit the nice mold that you describe.
And it doesn’t take away the fact that kids are lied to, for comfort that doesn’t help in the slightest. Followed by the nonsense nowadays where every bully is described as “afraid”.