Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was born on August 30, 1948 and raised in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, Illinois. In high school he excelled in academics and athletics. After Hampton graduated from high school, he enrolled in a pre-law program at Triton Junior College in River Grove, Illinois. Hampton also became involved in the civil rights movement, joining his local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His dynamic leadership and organizational skills in the branch enabled him to rise to the position of Youth Council President. Hampton mobilized a racially integrated group of five hundred young people who successfully lobbied city officials to create better academic services and recreational facilities for African American children.
In 1968, Hampton joined the Black Panther Party (BPP), headquartered in Oakland, California. Using his NAACP experience, he soon headed the Chicago chapter. During his brief BPP tenure, Hampton formed a “Rainbow Coalition” which included Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers, a street gang and the National Young Lords, a Puerto Rican organization. Hampton was also successful in negotiating a gang truce on local television.
In an effort to neutralize the Chicago BPP, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Department placed the chapter under heavy surveillance and conducted several harassment campaigns. In 1969, several BPP members and police officers were either injured or killed in shootouts, and over one hundred local members of the BPP were arrested.
During an early morning police raid of the BPP headquarters at 2337 W. Monroe Street on December 4, 1969, twelve officers opened fire, killing the 21-year-old Hampton and Peoria, Illinois Panther leader Mark Clark. Police also seriously wounded four other Panther members. Many in the Chicago African American community were outraged over the raid and what they saw as the unnecessary deaths of Hampton and Clark. Over 5,000 people attended Hampton’s funeral where Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference eulogized the slain activist. Years later, law enforcement officials admitted wrongdoing in the killing of Hampton and Clark. In 1990, and later in 2004, the Chicago City Council passed resolutions commemorating December 4 as Fred Hampton Day.
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The recent TrueAnon episode about Kanye West contained several incredible Brace quotes
“My relationship with Stalin differs from that of the American mainstream…” “Stalin makes appearances in several rooms in my house”
I’m glad that Matt Christmas has been nearly fully coherent the past week or so.
He might actually return to full verbal functionality after all
The DPRK is entirely justified in a hypothetical full-scale invasion to liberate South Korean women from the deranged incel miasma that is present within the occupied area
Eternal Spectre of Kim Il-Sung please come down from the heavens, come down from the heavens Kim Il-Sung, smite these fucking freaks on the other side of the parallel please
Yeah, it is wild how much worse hell Josen is
Credit score dropped 21 points due to ‘decreased balances’. Yeah, I guess I’m less credit worthy because I checks notes paid you back…
Credit Score is for lenders to measure how profitable you are to lend to, paying off early prevents interest and that’s a no-no.
Not really—carrying a balance and thus incurring interest doesn’t do anything good for your credit score despite it making the lender money. Utilization ratio is important but I think that’s more about statement balances and can still be maintained without paying interest
Fair, though that can be seen as unreliability, which risks profit. Credit score is meant to maximize reliability and profitability.
It is in the interest of the credit agencies for everyone to make all payments with credit card. Regardless of whether they pay it off each month without interest. They make their money through the transaction fees that are factored into the price at every store.
Imagine how much money you could make if you could middleman 1% of every consumer purchase made in a country
I’m pretty sure credit scores have a much more nefarious purpose than what you’re eluding to.
That as well!
I made the minimum payment. If I do not make the minimum payment my credit score would go down due to a late payment.
Yep, less “reliability” in paying it off. It’s scientifically engineered for profit.
What really drives me nuts is when acknowledging that I’ve paid down the three balances the credit bureaus said, “Good job, this could improve your credit score!” under each respective one. I guess that was a fucking lie.
Americans will laugh at the made-up social credit in China, immediately open the app on their phones that tells them how to behave next so maybe one day they can be eligible by the banking overlords to get a mortgage, and not notice any doublethinking
The credit bureaus literally included the note that I don’t have enough lines of credit, they recommend having over a dozen to be considered good standing. Excuse me while I go to every department store to get a bullshit credit card at 28.9% APR.
Explaining the civil war to my children
Hello choir, I’d like to do some preaching
The way we talk about Agent Orange in the US is completely fucked and ass backwards. The only reason we talk about it and think it was bad is because it was contaminated and got American soldiers sick. We used several different herbicides, the rest of them didn’t have that problem. Hot take, that was the best thing about Agent Orange!
The spraying of herbicides by the US military in Indochina is a historic evil. Why the fuck would I feel bad for the people doing the spraying getting sick? I wouldn’t feel bad for Nazis if they got sick from Zyklon B, why would I feel bad for American troops getting sick from Agent Orange. Unlimited cancer on the genocidiers.
Obviously the fact that the contaminants also harmed the victims is very bad, but I’m including that with the direct effects of the herbicides and also the bombs in “Not the problems Americans have with the Vietnam war”
discussion of nazi on twitter
I think nazis might be cooked man they don’t have literally any juice anymore. just saw one try to quote a soc dem at a fucking maoist of all people, I called him a nazi and he has now started to flail and incoherently try to bust out what I assume are supposed to be dogwhistles but he doesn’t even know how to do them properly anymore. 4chan and stormfront aren’t sending their best anymore.
edit: nazi update, he’s even worse than I thought, doesn’t know how to skillfully use his words to build up frustration because he doesn’t believe anything, pretty much just did the “lol triggered!” bit (and his only 3 insults were r-slur, I think he was trying to call me trans but I dont keep up with their lingo enough to know for sure, and finally the n-word but not even hard r 😭 ) but in a way to where it was very obvious he was upset. is it bad I can out bully a nazi, even a pathetic one like this?
Top ten most harmful drugs in the world
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No but seriously ive never seen a league player tell anything good about league, even dota players at least seems to enjoy the game itself.
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A very comfy nap to all
Finally talked to my mom about thinking I have autism. She doesn’t think I have autism and won’t help me get tested. This is bad for me because I am like 90% sure I have autism. And since I can’t afford to get tested on my own (it’s like 1000+ euros) and there’s no public option available, I’m just kinda stuck
What is your favorite sonic character?
Oh cool your mom’s a medical professional and autism is her area of expertise, right?
When i finally saw a specialist for ADHD and mentioned my partner talking to her doctor about autism; the specialist asked if her doctor has gone through recent school or training in the subject.
Literally a doctor telling me another doctor probably doesn’t know enough about it but your mom can tell just by looking at you.
Fuck i just cut my mom off so I’m primed for this shit and I’m pissed
The thing is my mom IS a medical expert, she’s a GP, but she’s also been incredibly blind to every condition I’ve ever had growing up, especially mentally. It took a LOT of bad times for her to admit that I had anxiety and depression as a teenager, and she doesn’t really take seriously any physical ailments I have. Like, I love her and she loves me, but I guess she doesn’t want me to be different or difficult, especially because my two older sisters turned out a lot better than I did.
Also, I guess she doesn’t want to admit that she didn’t notice medical problems with me as a child
Brutal, I’m sorry to hear all that. Your sisters didn’t turn out better than you, though. Just because you don’t fit a particular mold or you’ve had a more difficult time navigating the society we find ourselves in doesn’t make you “worse” than anyone.
oof. moms amiright? I got diagnosed as autistic when I was like 10 or 12 and my mom’s bright idea was to not get me any treatment or even tell the school because she though it would stigmatize me. Like being labeled autistic was the thing that would get me teased not the fact that I was a fucking weirdo who’s writing looked like a 3 year old’s.
An official diagnosis probably wont change your life much if you are an adult. You have siblings who are better adjusted to living in hell world that doesn’t mean they “turned out better.” Maybe just ask those siblings “Hey, if I told you I’m autistic would that explain a lot?” If they are like: “yeah. that does make a lot of sense.” then you have your diagnosis.
Most of what a autism specialist will do is dredge up a ton of your personal history and gather a ton of data on you to determine if you fit the criteria of autism. A person who grew up with you has all the data they just need to look at the criteria of autism.
Actual question, what would a medical diagnosis of autism get you? Is there some treatment or therapy that you can’t get without one?
in my unsuccessful attempts to not drink at home i have been moderating more, we can call that a W i guess
walked past my 60 year old coworker and dude is googling “sexy bee cartoon images”
Tiktokers will post shit captioned “hair theory” and it’s just a video of them with different hairstyles. That’s not a theory, that’s just different hair. What’s the theory? That different hairstyles make you look different? Wow holy shit.
Anyway it seems like the main way to get popular on tiktok is to be conventionally attractive and have enough money to buy wall LEDs and a bunch of vintage clothes and loads of merch from various franchises to put on your shelves
Depends on your definition of success, the Seiz guy did a number of tiktoks from his comedy material complaining about modern work and he got in Cocaine Bear like a year after
The hair theory one is that as a service worker men will tip you better with pigtails. The assumption is because it makes you look younger. The implication is that all men absorbed enough pedophile radiation from the culture that they unconsciously see an underage person as sexually avaliable.
One of five students in my school’s triple-digit-strong music program to be nominated by the faculty for a composition intensive with a visiting prof
I can’t wait to start making wasntreal jokes. Please lord, in my lifetime.
