"Creepy"

[H2O Man]

"I don't know if I like communism, and I don't know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program …..”
Fred Hampton (8-30-48 to 12-4-69)

If I had one recommendation for young people today, it would be to study Fred Hampton. In 1967, the FBI deemed him a radical threat to the country. Note that in Chicago, he had created the Rainbow Coalition, a multi-racial group that recognized fascism and economic warfare as the primary threat to low-income and middle class communities. Thus, law enforcement brutally murdered him on this date in 1969.

Hampton recognized that positive actions needed to accompany bold speaking. Thus, he knew the Breakfast for Children Program was essential. Thus, I think his legacy should serve as food for thought for all of us. This is not because, as an old man, I am stuck in the past. The exact opposite, because there are children without enough food for a healthy diet, I am focused upon the future.


“They are doing something to you because they feel threatened in some way by your existence.”
Nur Omar Mohamad to his daughter Ilhan Omar

The above quote was a father's understanding of why some individuals were cruel to his daughter in school. His daughter went on to become an advocate for children having nutritious food in her state. She became more politically active. At a precinct caucus she organized in 2014, she was assaulted by a group of five people, suffering a concussion. It required her going to the hospital.

Then she became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since then, she has become a favorite target of the felon and his cult. I think her description of the felon's obsession with her as “creepy” is right on target. The Social Science Research Council has stated that Rep. Omar is the primary target in DC for internet hate speech. The brain-dead are convinced she is trying to impose Shariah law in this country, failing to grasp their hero is both lawless and sending federal troops to American cities to inflict fear and injuries to the public.

Two maga-ites running in her district said Rep. Omar should be hung. There have been people arrested for threats against her life. In recent days, the felon has been stirring the pot of ignorance and hatred, resulting in yet another increase in threats. He wants someone – or group – to kill her. My concern is less with the idiots who make threats on the telephone and/or internet, than with the quiet, capable, extremely sick individuals who might think it their duty to their president.

Thus, if you have a couple bucks, I encourage you to donate to Rep. Omar, as she has to pay for increased security at this tense time.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/io-em-footer/?refcode=em-footer&t=31&refcode2=1978_1766059_VuvV67&akid=1978.1766059.VuvV67

[Ocelot II]

1. Ilhan Omar is my rep. In her first term she was a bit politically clumsy and I had some doubts,

but now she's found her footing and has been showing great courage standing up to MAGA. Brava for her. She deserves the support of all Democrats.

And, by the way, the Somali community in my city contributes positively in many ways, and they are no more "criminal" than any other group. There is something of a local scandal arising from the fraudulent use of government covid-relief funds intended for a children's charity, and many of the participants in the fraud were Somali (though the mastermind was a White woman). But you don't condemn an entire group (about 80,000 people) for the bad acts of a couple dozen. And it's pretty damn ballsy for Trump to complain about this scam considering that his own family foundation was fined and banned from doing business in NY for disbursing money to the family and the campaign that was supposed to be paid to charities. And the claim that Somali criminal gangs are terrorizing Minneapolis is a bald-faced lie. I see Somali people every day, doing regular things, going about their business, taking their kids to school. Trump's racist remarks were outrageous. But what else is new?

[H2O Man]

3. Absolutely!

I think that "a bit politically clumsy" is accurate. There were unforced errors. No question about that. I do think that she has learned from such mistakes, and recognizes that the corporate media will pounce on such things. As she has taken to the roles she plays -- a non-white female who is both articulate and elegant -- some will appreciate her, while others will listen to a president that I am convinced eats cats and dogs. I think the felon actually ate a rabid road-kill canine, and that explains his current behavior.

Exactly as you said, this racist crap is nothing new for the felon. He is the most dangerous criminal in the US today.

[LoisB]

5. The head of the largest criminal gang in the country has his carcass parked in our White

House.

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. Kicking

[H2O Man]

4. Thank you!

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[H2O Man]

7. Thank you!

I think we need to step up and make a statement & take action when one of our own is being threatened by low-lifes. And that is what the felon-in-chief is: a cowardly low-life. A scum. Yet there are jackals that follow his call.

[Solly Mack]

8. Trump thrills at the thought of people acting on his words. He delights in it. He's a dangerous man.

As are his followers.

[H2O Man]

11. Yes.

Poison snakes.

In the past 48 hours, to take my mind off the horrors in our country today, I've watched a series of youtube videos of "sovereign citizens" in court. But, of course, watching a group delusional system reminded me of the maga cult. It is as if they are in a trance that prevents them from understanding they never win in court, that they don't have a clue to reality. This despite the hours and hours of internet research they put in.

[mountain grammy]

9. I remember

The murder of Fred Hampton. What an end to a bloody decade.
Yes I will donate to Rep Omar’s security.

[H2O Man]

10. Thank you!

I really like Rep Omar. She is one of the younger Democrats that give an old man like me confidence that we can turn this country around. I think people like her -- much like Fred Hampton -- were aware that this society requires more than a tune-up and oil change. And the diseased parts of the current social structure require something stronger than an antibiotic.

[mountain grammy]

12. I like her too

Hope she stays safe.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Zinn Project resource

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/black-panther-party-assassinated/

Includes Democracy Now’s report:

“The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther”

Excerpt…

FRED HAMPTON: So we say—we always say in the Black Panther Party that they can do anything they want to to us. We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you’re going to have to keep on saying that. You’re going to have to say that I am a proletariat, I am the people.

A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals. A lot of people don’t even understand the words that Eldridge uses a lot. But what we’re saying is that there are white people in the mother country that are for the same types of things that we are for stimulating revolution in the mother country. And we say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind. We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just—it’s a byproduct of capitalism. Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.

With no education, the people will take the local foundation and start stealing money, because they won’t be really educated to why it’s the people’s thing anyway. You understand what I’m saying? With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you’ve got in Africa now and like you’ve got in Haiti. So what we’re talking about is there has to be an educational program. That’s very important. As a matter of fact, reading is so important for us that a person has to go through six weeks of our political education before we can consider himself a member of the party able to even run down ideology for the party. Why? Because if they don’t have an education, then they’re nowhere. You dig what I’m saying? They’re nowhere, because they don’t even know why they’re doing what they’re doing. You might get caught up in the emotion of this movement. You understand me? You might be able to get them caught up because they’re poor and they want something. And then, if they’re not educated, they’ll want more, and before you know it, they’ll be capitalists, and before you know it, we’ll have Negro imperialists.

We don’t think you fight fire with fire; we think you fight fire with water. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’re still here to say we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.

Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we’re asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don’t even understand what peace means. And we’ve got to fight them. We’ve got to struggle with them to make them understand what peace means.

Bobby Seale is going through all types of physical and mental torture. But that’s alright, because we said even before this happened, and we’re going to say it after this and after I’m locked up and after everybody’s locked up, that you can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country, but you can’t run liberation out of the country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting, and if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer, explanations that don’t explain, you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude, and you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and moving on pigs. And that’s what we’ve got to do. So we’re going to see about Bobby regardless of what these people think we should do, because school is not important and work is not important. Nothing’s more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.

Source: https://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/4/the_assassination_of_fred_hampton_how

[H2O Man]

14. He had

such great potential.

I was pleased a few years back when one of my sons and daughters were seriously studying Hampton. They were excited to tell me all about things I was already familiar with! We lost a lot of individuals in that era who could have changed our history for the better.

[Easterncedar]

16. Those losses are still grievous

All the potential for a better world that was taken from us

[Easterncedar]

15. Excellent contribution here. Thanks