The Assassination of Fred Hampton

There's a reason why Fred Hampton was assassinated because he was seen as a threat to the system. And so even though we have to think in terms of movements, we also know that leaders with the proper vision and the capacity to create those alliances are not easy to come by. So it's important to understand in the 60s, the rising up of the counterculture. You think of the 60s as the hippies, but that's a cultural thing. Politically, the 60s were very radical. But then what happens in the subsequent decades, you have the Reaganism reaction and the dormancy of the 90s. The Iraq war and the Great Recession is coming back of left