![]() The film thus makes terrifyingly comprehensible the capitalist state's desire to quash Black Power before it could be equated with, in Hampton's words, "Brown Power for Brown people, Yellow Power for Yellow People." and even "White power for White people. Bobby Rush of Illinois, a onetime Black Panther with a dramatic rise in Illinois politics, won’t seek reelection after 15 terms representing his Chicago-area district, according to a prepared video announcement obtained Monday by The Associated Press. MIHALOPOULOS: Bobby Rush says in 1969, he was supposed to be with fellow activists Fred Hampton and Mark Clark when law enforcement agents raided the Black Panther's headquarters on the. 1999 BOBBY RUSH FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO PICTURE CAMPAIGN POSTER - BLACK PANTHER. The fact that Hampton was convicted of clearly trumped-up charges of robbery by an all-white jury shows that the general white populace feared Black people, yet the many white progressives and radicals in Hampton's circle shows that the racial divide was gradually declining in the near- revolutionary climate of the late-'60s, at least among young people. ![]() The radical journalists who made this film make clear that the Chicago police felt the need to execute Hampton, an important Black Nationalist, potentially an important Marxist revolutionary leader, before he developed any more of a mass, multi-national following. Bobby Rush, the former Black Panther who became a member of Congress, says he won’t seek re-election after 15 terms in the House, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday. How were Fred Hampton, Bobby Rush, and the Illinois State Chapter able to. Later, Rush made history when he formed the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party after having been inspired by the activism of Stokely Carmichael and. ![]() It shows the truly socialist character of the Black Panthers as they feed and educate oppressed people of many backgrounds. Bobby Seale: Black Panther Party, 1966, when Huey and I founded that. ![]() Fantastic documentary- both a great piece of journalism and a beautiful example of verite-filmmaking. ![]()
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