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Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was born on August 30, 1948 and raised in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, Illinois. In high school he excelled in academics and athletics. After Hampton graduated from high school, he enrolled in a pre-law program at Triton Junior College in River Grove, Illinois. Hampton also became involved in the civil rights movement, joining his local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His dynamic leadership and organizational skills in the branch enabled him to rise to the position of Youth Council President. Hampton mobilized a racially integrated group of five hundred young people who successfully lobbied city officials to create better academic services and recreational facilities for African American children.

In 1968, Hampton joined the Black Panther Party (BPP), headquartered in Oakland, California. Using his NAACP experience, he soon headed the Chicago chapter. During his brief BPP tenure, Hampton formed a “Rainbow Coalition” which included Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers, a street gang and the National Young Lords, a Puerto Rican organization. Hampton was also successful in negotiating a gang truce on local television.

In an effort to neutralize the Chicago BPP, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Department placed the chapter under heavy surveillance and conducted several harassment campaigns. In 1969, several BPP members and police officers were either injured or killed in shootouts, and over one hundred local members of the BPP were arrested.

During an early morning police raid of the BPP headquarters at 2337 W. Monroe Street on December 4, 1969, twelve officers opened fire, killing the 21-year-old Hampton and Peoria, Illinois Panther leader Mark Clark. Police also seriously wounded four other Panther members. Many in the Chicago African American community were outraged over the raid and what they saw as the unnecessary deaths of Hampton and Clark. Over 5,000 people attended Hampton’s funeral where Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference eulogized the slain activist. Years later, law enforcement officials admitted wrongdoing in the killing of Hampton and Clark. In 1990, and later in 2004, the Chicago City Council passed resolutions commemorating December 4 as Fred Hampton Day.

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Why the US government murdered Fred Hampton

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

I'd like to rant about LGBT erasure in academia for a bit. Specifically, historians become incredibly angry when you suggest that Ancient Romans who were assigned male, wore women's clothing, castrated themselves and married men were trans. You'll hear complaints about how it's ahistorical to use a contemporary label for the past, but I never understood that kind of criticism. It's not like being transgender is a random social identity or subculture without any deeper meaning; it refers, roughly speaking, to a certain combination of behaviors that transgress the bounds of gender assignment. So when I say that Elagabalus, for example, was probably a trans woman, I don't mean that she consciously thought about herself in our contemporary terms, but that from what those admittedly questionable Roman historians write of her, she expressed a strong wish to be and be seen as a woman. I think it's fair to use the term "trans" for that.

Personally, I blame both old-fashioned positivists and Foucault for these brainworms. I think they both agree that you must understand the past from within itself, and not by relating it to the present. For me, that's so far away from my lived experience and from the way I approach texts that I just can't fathom it.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

I will be the prettiest, silliest, and nerdiest girl

And no one can stop me meow-knife-trans

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Cause of death: skill issue

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Might be a bit of an opsec risk but here I am at work

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

You don't need to drink from a plastic bottle comrade

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

i had the weirdest dream that i was an owl all day yesterday and absolutely filthy too cat-confused

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

I like upvoting posts without actually reading them

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

that's a whole lotta words

too bad I ain't reading em

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

One of my mutuals on fedi DMed me about me posting about reading a parenti book last night to tell me how he was a genocide denier and when I pushed back on this they claimed that double tapping doesn't exist and did apologia for basically every us war in the last two decades except Iraq (which they did a kind of soft apologia for of claiming iraq was just an honest mistake). Anyway then they called Corbyn a genocide denier and then I stopped engaging and blocked them. Feels shitty but I probably should have realised when they had a go at me for calling out their use of the r slur

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A few hours ago I told the Hexbearian people that I was not horny on main...

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true. But the facts and the evidence... tell me it is not.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

The latin phrase "ad hominem" loosely translates to "badass", when people say you made an ad hominem attack they are complimenting you about how you totally owned that guy

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

How to be a leftist - a guide for new federation instances

Step 1) Spell words differently

+-----------------+-----------------+
| Old Spelling | New Spelling |
+-----------------+-----------------+
| America     | Amerikkka    |
+-----------------+-----------------+
| Canada        | Klanada        |
+----------------+------------------+
| UK                | Terf Island    |
+----------------+------------------+
| Israel           | Isntreal           |
+----------------+------------------+

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

My dumbass landlord forgot to raise our rent on the new lease fidel-cool

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

i hope elon musk dies i hate that fucking worm of a man

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

I just noticed that from the way it's cropped, my new profile pic looks like comfy but sad.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

you know what i don't really feel like today?

working lmao

but i'll keep doing that garbage

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

im begging these burning man protestors to read state and revolution and to target critical resources, not some road leading to a reservation

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Why would I cook something for dinner when I can eat a kilo of hummus with a kilo of raw vegetables and some naan

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

So I walk into a meeting at work, and two supervisors are discussing one of them just getting over COVID. "Oh it's less than the flu"... "I had it three times"... "I traveled through 4 countries with it over the summer".

Me in the back with my N95, shutting the fuck up because I'm not going to change the opinion of these hard right reactionaries and I need to work to pay bills. Fuck it sucks being a tankie and having to hold back my opinion all the time. I gotta say, being a communist has made me really good at guarding my opinions about shit.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I should have never let my scared af cat realize I'm safe. I have lost all sense of personal space

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Gabon just couped their French puppet dictator. France has been losing colonies left and right this past summer lmao.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

walk into a nice looking vietnamese restaurant bloomer

Giant South Vietnam flag hanging across the ceiling doomjak

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I was not expecting 'ableism is oppression olympics' this morning I tell you hwhat

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Mannnn social anxiety sucks. It can be so hard to do the littlest of socialization and afterwards I just feel like the dumbest person alive. I also live in the middle of damn nowhere so it's not really easy to find and socialize with others like myself in person. All I can do is try to lurk less, talk more and hope it makes some meaningful difference. kobeni-sweat

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Its 1am therefore I will no longer pretend to be @[email protected]

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Never let liberals forget that under Stalin's leadership, the USSR banned eugenics as a bourgeois and fascist practice in 1931

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

All the people I want to hug are in my computer

sad

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

some thoughts for y'all this morning:

I'm probably remembering this incorrectly but I think Fanon talks about a sort of mental crisis that happens when a colonized people internalizes what the colonizer says and does to them. These ideas can be loosely applied to the experiences of immigrants and their children, particularly those that do not find a community similar to their previous one in their new home. They can find themselves having one culture at home and a different one at school/work. This can create a sort of "split identity" since you can have contradicting experiences when moving between the two cultures.

Now layer on top of this the "identity splitting" experience of autism and it's correlated gender issues. Throw race into the mix and you've got yourself a nuclear weapons grade identity crisis. You can just pick and choose what to identify as since it's all social constructed anyways but that can put you in real danger while not necessarily allowing you to live your most authentic self.

Personally, I'm surprised I've never had an identity crisis that spiraled out of control. I'd love to hear anyone else's thoughts

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Terrible nightmares then a distressing dream about my ex shatter but at least I woke up with a very soft kitty resting besides me.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Hexbear when 3 shitty memes and 2 ai pictures end up in their All feed:

:frothingfash:

Hexbear when the entire fediverses all page is 100% "I got my * on you" :

sicko-charging

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Man the internet is so fucking dark sometimes

Just wounded people baring their sores at each other and jeering at sympathy

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Starfield leaker really post the game footage on his own account under his own name huh? galaxy-brain centrist

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

I really fucking hate my boss.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

After 4 semesters i finally saw trots selling news papers in my uni, lol chad-trotsky

Aparently they used to come every first weeks of a semester but due to thepandemic their group dissolved and only resently reformed again

We talk shit about amlo for a bit it was fun

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

New mega energybunny-vibe

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