Fred Hampton Jr Speaks (May 13, 2015)

I've never shared this before. Back in May 2015 I filmed Fred Hampton Jr deliver this speech at the 30th Anniversary of the MOVE bombing in Philly. It feels appropriate to share it now, as it both resonates and today is the day his father would have turned 72. Fred Jr was inside his mother's womb and in the room when Chicago police put two execution bullets in his father's head while he slept. In this speech Fred Jr touches on the role of prisons, the need for communities to serve as classrooms, using the master's tools for liberation, Marx's dialectical materialism and more.
Fred Hampton, 21, deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party, was assassinated in his apartment by Chicago Police and the FBI on December 4, 1969 while his pregnant girlfriend, Deborah Johnson, slept next to him. An FBI informant, William O'Neal, slipped Hampton a barbiturate sleep agent during dinner that night. Chicago police stormed the apartment at 4:45am and shot and killed 22 year old BPP member Mark Clark before shooting a sleeping Hampton in the shoulder. One officer then put two bullets into Hampton's head at point blank range before declaring, "He's good and dead now."
Fred Hampton Jr continues his father's legacy today as the president and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee and the Black Panther Party Cubs.

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Fred Hampton I can listen to all day 😎 damn straight.