“Fred Hampton joined an explicitly Black organization and spent most of his time organizing the Black poor. Yea Hampton has quotes calling for working class solidarity to combat racism but he has just as many quotes calling for armed struggle against state agents and imperialism.

..which the crowd that wants to pretend Hampton's politics were the same as Adolph Reed’s by reducing Hampton to a handful of quotes ignore...”

“Also the US govt has killed Black nationalists, Black liberals and people with wide variety of politics so the whole Hampton was killed *because* of outreach to white workers purposefully ignores police around the country waging war on BPP even in chapters not led by Hampton..”