Thread by @BLMChi

This is a must watch video of Chairman Fred Hampton. A fave. Incredibly important critical analysis of strategy and tactic.

https://twitter.com/IolaElla/status/1361552149071732740

We had intense dialogue about this during the uprising where these tensions were heightened. This is a very divisive issue and is used expertly by COINTELPRO to disrupt processes and orgs.

But this is also a real political tension where ideologies can be used to justify conflict in defense and in opposition to. We saw this appear acutely this summer.

In this clip Chairman Fred is responding to the Weatherman Undergound's "Day of Rage", where largely white folks gathered in what they called revolutionary agitation and led to a lot of police rioting, violence, arrests, etc.

Chairman Fred critiqued this as adventurism which would result in disproportionate violence against Black people and be used as a cover by police to further engage in terror tactics in the already underseiged Black neighborhoods in Chicago.

We had this exact fight this summer during the uprising.

The resulting conflict was and is painful, because it cuts directly to how people are understanding revolution, struggle and liberation. And on all of these, there are many visions and definitions.

However, what we know for sure, is that the state is expert at killing, torturing and locking up Black people who struggle, right smack dab up next to white folks doing the same damn thing or worse.

So #FreeJosh, #FreeMohawk, #FreeStanleyHoward, #FreeGeraldReed #FreeThemAll!