I became associated with his son’s mom who was there with Fred on the night of the shooting.
She invited me to share a few words at the site of the building, which had been razed and the activists on site were pushing for a memorial at that location. Hmmm, it was a vacant lot.
Going forward I’m going to push for a statue at that site if they haven’t built over it, or for a statue of Fred Hampton in some other site on the West Side, of Chicago.
The kids over there can be educated in one fell swoop over an artistic impression, which underscores his embracing of cross-cultural liberation.
Of all the great radicals of the 60’s, the one that stands out the most for me was brother Fred Hampton of the Blank Panthers. Let us all remember this great young man who would have been 75-years-old today. Fred was key in forming links between the Panthers and working-class people of all races. At the young age of 21, he was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago police.
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