sharing a little know-ledge

okay, you all know that i'm engaged in we real cool at the present time. i should be finished by now, but for a lack of excuses i'll just say that i just really got started today. in the preface, i came across a name, FRED HAMPTON, and i'm thinking that the name sounded familiar so i went and googled it and came across one of his speeches. for some reason, it made me think of the underground family. this is what he said:

Fred Hampton, speech (1968)


A lot of people get the word revolution mixed up and they think revolutions a bad word. Revolution is nothing but like having a sore on your body and then you put something on that sore to cure that infection. I'm telling you that we're living in a sick society. We're involved in a society that produces criminals, thieves and robbers and rapers. Whenever you are in a society like that, that is a sick society.

We're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution. That's what it has to be.

We have to understand very clearly that there's a man in our community called a capitalist. Sometimes he's Black and sometimes he's white. But that man has to be driven out of our community because anybody who comes into the community to make profit off of people by exploiting them can be defined as a capitalist.


that's some real stuff! just wanted to let my revolutionaries in on some revolution shit.

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2/14/06