WATCH: Black Panther Party Activist Fred Hampton's 1960s Speech On Race & Class

Majority Report Contributor Michael Brooks is hosting the show today. In this clip, we watch activist Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and deputy chairman of the national BPP give a speech to a roomfull of people on the devastating effects of racial divisions and infighting within the working class. Hampton was assassinated while sleeping during a raid by the Chicago PD in 1969.
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[@a.gandhy6186]

absolute hero of the working class and the black struggle. ! you are missed, Fred.

[@juan3208]

RIP Fred Hampton and Michael Brooks. You're definitely missed.

[@mguaque1]

✊🏼

[@MrCal2648]

"We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with Solidarity."- Fred Hampton We need another Solidarity movement more than ever now.

[@stp479]

Well said, now how do you explain Biden's expected appointment of avowed black supremacist, anti-semite, Kirsten Clarke? You don't unless by owning that hate and racial division are employed by the democratic party as part of a vote harvesting platform. "We're gonna fight racism with Solidarity." would see Fred Hampton cancelled by this party of today.

[@YoungLawlessAmerica]

Agreed! That’s why we started the brand New Rainbow Coalition out here! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[@bthunder9292]

All Power to the Oppressed Peoples. May we Unify and be in solidarity in Struggle and Pain against the Oppressors

[@YoungLawlessAmerica]

@Akshay 004 Straight up! We helped make that movie!

[@_audacity2722]

@@stp479 that’s why the goal is to dismantle the Democratic Party from within. You’re right that liberals would cancel him today and just as well conservatives would vilify him. It’s not really a new dynamic for our country, liberals have always broken more to the right than the left.

[@terrellmiller4678]

he was a genius and only 21.

[@YoungLawlessAmerica]

This is why we started the new Rainbow Coalition! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[@bobfranker3090]

He was such a threat to the capitalist class at the age of 21, that they fucking killed him! I'm 22 and couldn't imagine being as influential as he was at that age. Man was a literal martyr for the people

[@memelord3117]

Lmfaoo.....chest a moron... if u think he's a genius...Jesus Crist

[@jakep7151]

@@bobfranker3090 being against capitalism isnt a good thing lmao...if u had a talent or idea that cld change the lives of u n ur family in a monetary sense...u sayin ud split all that money up n give it away to everyone? that's what communism/socialism is. hell no u wldnt lol his ideas were marxist n communist ideals. he basically wanted those who had to give to those who dont n everyone have equal pay or equal this n that. if he was rich...he wldnt have thought that way. bet u all the rich athletes n entertainers wldnt support his ideals either...or they wld be doin it..they do charity yeah...but if u think any of them wld be willing to split all their money up for "the people" ur outcha mind homie. they can...they dont...and wldnt..ever! 🤔

[@kowishto]

@@jakep7151 ​ ​ That’s not socialism/communism. What you’re explaining is what the bourgeoisie(capitalist class) and liberals(supporters of capitalism) say socialism/communism is to attempt to discredit it because it is a direct threat to capitalism. Communism is a global stateless classless moneyless society that is the end goal. Socialism is the process towards communism. Socialism isn’t “Everyone splits their money equally.” Socialism is a dictatorship of the proletariat(working class). It means the proletariat democratically decide how much they are worth, instead of the bourgeoisie who is only concerned about profit for themself.

[@jerrynelson5289]

RIP Chairman. True Revolutionary never dies.

[@skortana3760]

This is a real socialism movement. Stand for equality and revolution to inequality !

[@G23-k5r]

Smh at the 21 year olds nowdays. I feel like they purposefully dumbed us down with the influence of the media and music because they do not want another Black Panther Party around.

[@conradcaples4926]

Facts!

[@NoPlainJane-o3c]

They don’t want communities being independent from the capitalistic ways of the government so they bombard us with as much advertisement and consumerism as they can that leads back to having dealings with the system. The govt scratches our back, we scratch theirs type of deal.

[@margaretjohnson6259]

they did. you're right. and they are getting better and better at keeping kids ignorant. however, ignorance is a temporary state. it can be fixed.

[@mi3helle707]

💯

[@PronouncedTy-YAH-La]

It’s all an agenda . Murdered and they made a movie out of it . Took an innocent non violent man life simply because he promotes equality and for us to provide for ourselves. They want us to stay in a psychological lock. They called the panthers a violent mob/gang/danger to society meanwhile the danger is the elite who took his life.

[@yochillz6261]

How long will we stand aside and watch them kill all of our prophets - bob marley

[@jackstalls8903]

That’s Real

[@mi3helle707]

💯

[@pacizzles1]

Ended up here randomly tonight on this old video and have followed MR for years. Aww Michael Brooks. We miss your voice on MR, TMBS & Weekends. RIP ❤️

[@shanehill2288]

He was able to bring people of all ethnicities and classes together, and that scared the piss out of the establishment. Couldn't have that....

[@LPJack02]

RIP Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 - December 4, 1969), aged 21 And RIP Michael Brooks (August 13, 1983 - July 20, 2020), aged 36 You both will be remembered as legends.

[@duanegoggins873]

He was so great, not only because of his sacrifice, but in his practical application. He was a pragmatist, and moreover, he truly believed in justice. Therefore, he could cross racial lines to build coalitions. Unlike many of those of today, he was less interested in "playing woke" or wanting to hear himself talk, he was dedicated to "putting the work in". He, any many of those at that time were far more than "armchair revolutionaries".

[@Alex-ek5mp]

Another wave of revolutionary movement is coming I am confident we will get to see more Hamptons within our lifetime

[@henryfox6293]

That’s why they killed him. He knew what tactics actually worked in class struggle and he used them. The CIA/FBI knows how class struggle progresses, they saw that he was a legitimate threat.

[@faultline25]

I hope these two heroes of mine are chilling in the other plane. RIP Fred & Michael

[@brandonanderson2689]

r.i.p. brother

[@756Attitude]

So we definitely know why they killed him

[@kittyb.3354]

Give ADOS what you owe "REPARATIONS " Our Ancestors are waking up within us 😎

[@luisgonzalez1637]

R.I.P. Fred and Michael, you two were cut from the same cloth.

[@rosiesantiago]

Edgar J. Hoover was the one that gave the order to kill him. They shot into his apt. Hoover was afraid of Chairman Hampton and the Black Panthers bc they were getting strong and things were getting done. Rest In Peace Chairman 🎉🙏🙏🇵🇷 You're missed.

[@kyledool2959]

RIP Fred & Michael

[@jaybeetdown]

Eddie Murphy sounds like this man.

[@kathygaither5746]

Every time that i hear him speak, I am awestruck.

[@WhenMotherhoodLooksDifferent]

What a legacy of wisdom he left us… a man determined to live awake!

[@TRAW415]

So ahead of his time!! Miss you Michael

[@kaiomori1694]

He wasn't an activist. He was a Revolutionary.

[@woodsd4]

CHAIRMAN FRED...🖤

[@danielthomas1898]

I Miss you Micheal Brooks. Cheers brother 🍻.

[@edwarddube5650]

Killed by we all know who!

[@polisman200]

Man this hurts to watch now. I miss Michael.

[@PSYxTV]

Our hearts are hurting.

[@francheskavega7251]

Fred Hampton was murdered in cold blood,it is a huge injustice,Rip Fred

[@omarrushdan]

When you make this a discussion about left and right. Democrats or Republicans it means you don't get it.

[@Tammarrah100]

Brilliance from oppression.

[@moviedude22]

oh whoa. excellent

[@aprilnelly]

Amazingly so-called "white" sounding dialect from Baskar. Appropriated name, or dialect? I cant tell the difference! Well done Baskar, props.

[@khrachvikkhrachvik7049]

For someone writing for Jacobin, which recently released an article trying to make people think like Kautsky, saying he was right, to talk about an actual revolutionary hero like Fred Hampton just seems insane to me. I know Sunkara didn't write the article, but Kautsky was like, THE social chauvinist. THE twister of Marx and Engels. I can't take someone from Jacobin seriously. Liberals and social chauvinists. Not revolutionaries. And Sunkara's support for liberalism and the social chauvinism of the American left-leaning liberals is just ridicululous. Not to mention the fact that Fred Hampton was a TANKIE - who taught Marx, Lenin, Mao, etc to his party. Read Marx. Read Lenin. Don't listen to social chauvinists using revolutionary rhetoric, which they often try to do. We need an actual socialism - not more liberalism. To quote Fred Hampton, we don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism. We fight it with socialism.

[@sharkyjeff]

Idk bout the lenin part but sure

[@khrachvikkhrachvik7049]

@@sharkyjeff DEFINITELY read Lenin. Lenin updates the science of Marxism for the era of imperialism. (Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism) The State and Revolution is basically Lenin reminding people what Marxism actually is. We should be reading all of this stuff if we're serious about building socialism. Even if we think we'll disagree with it. Read Stalin's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism". There's no better plain language description of what Marxism is than that short book.

[@avinashreji60]

@@khrachvikkhrachvik7049 Stalin? I’ll pass

[@LiterarischeAktion]

@@avinashreji60 Yes, Stalin. Read it.

[@matthewbourgeois3503]

Fred Hampton speech can be found at the Chicago Film Archives

[@TheDoksterMonster]

21???!!!?

[@boonestead4812]

i wish it was subtitled.i had a hard time picking up what he said.

[@jslang7653]

It is subtitled click to right corner of screen

[@emjay2034]

I MISS MICHAEL BROOKS

[@unomileyjr4087]

He sounds like Eddie Murphy

[@coreyg7044]

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

[@ItzReelOutdoorz]

Like dead on!!!! That was only thing I could hear

[@thewayofyahweh7]

I came looking for this comment! I thought I was the only one

[@ItzReelOutdoorz]

@@thewayofyahweh7 Same here!!! I was like "clearly I can't be the only one!"

[@Reedrew1]

Genius and American hero

[@ronaldgreenjr1423]

Spot On

[@samdegoeij6576]

Unfortunately the message of Fred Hampton still rings true to this day and it's a damn shame that his story here is told by a man that made a large impression himself. Not as big as Hampton himself but, Micheal Brooks made quite the impression himself.

[@azsbwolf]

Long Live Fred Hampton

[@chuckpainter8234]

Fred hampton was on the verge of becoming the leader of the whole black panther party an was trying to get all the black mobs to join the Movement before he was murdered.

[@yarapah]

Crazy that he was assassinated the same exact day Jay-Z was born

[@KeleWele23]

A celebrity's date of birth is the most in-depth revelation you obtained from watching this video? FYI....Everyday someone dies on the very day that another person is born!

[@yarapah]

@@KeleWele23 yo my man don’t be that guy. Don’t look too deep into some random fact I put on a KZbin page. It’s just something I found interesting, nothing more, nothing less.

[@mnguardianfan7128]

I think the comment about education then and now is spot on.

[@caleb_güero]

"You school my naïve heart to sing red-white-and-blue-stars-and-stripes songs and to pledge eternal allegiance to all things blue, true, blue-eyed blond, blond-haired, white chalk white skin with U.S.A. tattooed all over When my soul trusted Uncle Sammy, Loved Uncle Sammy, I died in dreams for you Uncle Sammy, Died in dreams playing war for you Uncle Sammy."

[@JamesDickersonSpeaks]

He wasn’t a black nationalist

[@jerrynelson5289]

He was a class conscious Revolutionary in the mold of Che Guevara and Lumumba. Marxist Leninist.

[@MrShanester117]

Hey Michael 😥

[@g001able]

We wish one day we the native indian (Dravidian) would reunite with our non white and black brothers across world for better future. We are all cut from the same cloth. Wish one day we shall rule the world

[@mikem820]

And they wonder here in Chicago why black people don’t have faith in cops

[@veryfine69]

Wow, can’t believe he’s 21.

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

One of the rare times when Seder showed support for revolutionary class struggle. Now Seder is a pro endless war supporter of American imperialism.

[@RichHustle]

whats wrong with dawg mouth tho??

[@the5-starreview871]

There are millions of so-called interest groups in America. The whites have interest groups, the blacks, foreigners, business, political, homosexuals and so many others.

[@hilldwler420]

You have to have capitalism to support the socialist cause. Someone has to pay for it.

[@aprilnelly]

...for real, cant understand a word in the clip. Except I did hear some anti-identitarian logic. Mostly absent on this channel. I would say, entirely absent on this channel. This channel I find to be pro identitarian. Divisiveness as a virtue. RIP Fred

[@aprilnelly]

@Erik Yancey I know you are dissonated right now. But Fred was an honest man. And he never bought into the hateful system, the way you do. It's the reason for your unhappiness.

[@maxmalavenda]

rest in peace michael still missing you

[@realitycheck1092]

How’d he die?

[@therealpaulallen]

Activity for the algorithm.

[@jarreau78hassan]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@ascendedpigeonx280]

gotta love America.....mhm...yep

[@satta2023]

Ironic to hear the Democratic Party apologist Majority Report talking about revolutionary Fred Hampton.

[@brighteyez251]

black power!

[@jessicarobinson4563]

Yet Sam supports the same FBI SMH

[@godsnotdonewithyouyet6955]

😢😢❤❤🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@ChildofLight777]

I mean no disrespect but what was going on with the host here? He seemed ruffed up, shifty, scared and overall not well. I'm just now aware of his passing in 2020 but does anyone know what was going on 4 years prior. Bruised face and expressions just didn't sit right with me. I've never heard of him or this channel until today and it seems obvious he was in distress.

[@ReignCharger]

"Theory's cool. But theory without practice ain't shit." The left needs to not only fine together but get out of their fucking egos too. Stop caring about clout and credit.

[@crushsatan]

Was Fred Hampton really a Black Nationalist?

[@realitycheck1092]

He fought for black freedom and equal rights. If that’s what you call a “black nationalist” then yes

[@crushsatan]

@@realitycheck1092 I really don't think he was a black nationalist at all. The guy in the above video says he was, but he's wrong. Marcus Garvey was a black nationalist. He wanted to separate black people out. Fred Hampton was more of a socialist. he believed in all power to all people. As he said: "All Power to all people. White Power to White people; Brown Power to Brown people; Yellow Power to Yellow people; Black Power to Black people.”

[@Laura-gd4ku]

I dont think he was at all, he was a communist and that makes it quite impossible to be a nationalist and he activley worked on uniting the working class

[@crushsatan]

@@Laura-gd4ku communist and nationalist can easily work side by side. They're not mutually exclusive.

[@Laura-gd4ku]

@@crushsatan Yes they are mutually exclusive, even if some national "socialists" tell you otherwise. There is no socialism without internationalism and the goal of communism is not only a class-free society but also one free of national states. You know as marx said "the workers have no homeland". So again no its not possible to be a socialist and a nationalist at the same time.

[@TheIcecoldorange]

I think Candace owens is more revolutionary! She has so much grace and class and is an actual feminist!

[@deeznutzz8375]

Fred Hampton: I got some things I want to get off my mind! U.S. Government: Oh yeah! Boom Boom Boom! Fred Hampton: Oh shit, I got shot by the police!

[@LibertyDownUnder]

Sounds like one of Eddie Murphy's barbershop characters. Pointless race-hustling, where the audience feel embarrassed if they don't cheer at the end. Much like 98% of left wing leaders' speeches. I learned nothing from this.

[@StoutProper]

LibertyDownUnder he scared the government enough to assassinate him so he must pf being doing something right. Fighting for freedom perhaps

[@commissarcardsharp]

He was saying that the working poor of all races need to band together and fight the powers that be, but somehow your dumbass misconstrued that to be "race hustling". Seriously learn to troll better or gtfo.

[@brandonanderson2689]

is it a shock that you've learned nothing.......

[@LibertyDownUnder]

Communist Crapshoot Black Panthers in general are for racial segregation, and keep throwing around populist, hateful arguments about oppression. Fight what? Get a fucking job, you useless thug. Probably died of some acid trip and ended up blaming it on the FBI. Whatever.

[@commissarcardsharp]

LibertyDownUnder First off Fred Hampton was shot twice in the head at point blank range dipshit by members of the Chicago police department, tipped off by the FBI in 1969. Second You can't even die from overdosing on acid moron. Also useless thug huh?

[@henryfox6293]

I like how he doesn’t overanalyze racism and just calls it out for what it is: childish and regressive class infighting

[@hippiecuster4366]

We need people like this now as much as then. Maybe more.

[@RoccosVideos]

He sounds like Eddie Murphy.

[@bentouta5]

@Patsy Stone either way they're voices and cadence are virtually identical.