Okay I just got to the midway point of the documentary and was Fred Hampton an agent
Did I miss something? I remember them saying his right hand man was an informant, but this....
On another note, not to be too critical of the Panthers, but I really wish they were more organized. It really is disappointing to see leaders clashing in public, wildly contradictory ideas among members, and even general confusion about the end goal.
Maybe if they weren't snuffed out they would have gotten it together, but it really looks like the government overreacted to an organization who talked the revolutionary talk more than they walked the revolutionary walk (there was definitely some walking though
). But I guess as a government you nip things like that in the bud.
yeah i do think only a minority of Panthers were ready to achieve revolution by any means necessary but that's to be expected when women were a significant percentage of the movement....the BP leadership should have recruited more soldiers like hitters Assasta Shakur ran with or the Death Angel headhunters across the Bay in San Fran. an thought of better defense mechanism for when the government brought the hammer down on them....
,he was only willing to die for one group of people....Your stance is one made out of fear,but from Freds point of view theirs nothing scary about white people,brown people,yellow people having power IF its not abused....And IF black people had our own equal power of our own,and a community that could sustain itself then no other group of people would be able to abuse or oppress us even if they did have power of their own.
This shyt is really surprising.