Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · Dec 4 Remembering Fred Hampton today, not as a symbol, but an organizer who understood that the only real answer to exploitation is collective power Hampton knew that we all have a common, existential threat to our humanity: the status-quo. He understood that if we don't come together, we'll be destroyed
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Hampton wasn’t killed because he was “too inspiring.” He was killed because he was building a multiracial, working-class organization with teeth; the kind that scared the state enough to drug him, raid his home, and execute him in his sleep.