Les' WE Forget
Les' we forget that there are hundreds of Unsolved Civil Rights Murders that have yet to be prosecuted and justice served, and there are many more "suspicious deaths" and "mysterious murders" that occured during that era and continue to this day.
Mark Clark and Fred Hampton, December 4, 1969
Fred Hampton, a deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP, was killed in his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on December 4, 1969. Mark Clark, who was on security duty, was killed instantly while sitting in the front room of the apartment. Prior to their murders by police, Arthur Glen Morris and Anthony Coltrale, were murdered by police.
"one hundred shots were fired by police in what they claimed was a "shootout". They fired shots for 10-12 minutes before stopping. "
FBI Special Agent Gregg York said of the raid that murdered Chairman Freed: “We expected about twenty Panthers to be in the apartment when the police raided the place. Only two of those black ******s were killed, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.”
Fred Hampton was assassinated when he was in the process of forming political alliances with gang leaders to turn them into an activist organization. The FBI even forged letters between the Black Panther Party and the Gangs to breed hostility.
The Young Lords were originally a street gang who became politicized and eventually changed their name to the Young Lords Party. Aside from joining Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition, the Young Lords also followed the example of the Black Panther Party by replicating some of the Black Panther Party’s Survival Programs such as the famous Free Breakfast for Children Program in their own communities.
To the people of Ferguson MO and to those travelling to stand with our disenfranchised brothers and sisters of Ferguson MO, may the spirits of Fred, Huey, Stokely, Yassar, Jossiah, Bobby, Thomas, Samora, Ché and Nelson fill you with the strength to remain resilient and the conviction to remain steadfast in solidarity in the face of systematic violence, oppression and racism and the class war against the poor.
all our children, born to black, brown and poor will thank us for this shameful moment in ‘civilised’ society’s history.