WEBVTT - Land, Bread, Housing: Fred Hampton and the Chicago Black Panthers 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:07.960 Oh you're listening to you waiting on reparations the production 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.240 of My Heart radio. Yo. They want to call us 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.960 agitators like we always in the static. They will label 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:16.079 you a up felling or you're just an addict. But 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.800 I think they got it backwards. Talking watches with the ratchets. 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.080 I'm saying black panthers, not the Marvel cinematic chairman about 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.279 to speak. If we have a choice, will go stay 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.520 on your clock. You gotta watch the point tell pro 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.280 can't depend on them, so we can't have a voice. Help, No, 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.479 gotta take it. Those will need to help the most 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.320 get low, so we can't wait for ship. The streets 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.160 gotta make a shift less organized. We can all watch 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.000 the racist pigs. Hold our supplies, built those box and 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.360 play kids. Class solidarities right around the way you dig. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.479 Try to be passive. Its like Buddhism would do black Besides, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.639 so I don't need no judice in my crew. If 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.640 the man had a chance, they would shoot us in 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.760 the room. That's why I'm cooking the feed like every 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:59.320 student in the room, teaching every student right on zoom 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:09.360 an Franka. We are waiting on reparations. Hurry up, indeed, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.840 it is a late night. How are you doing? You 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.520 have been in that meeting for like five hours this time? Yeah, 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.440 five and a half five pm until I guess it's 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:26.320 like ten five I got out. Um, who what was 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.040 going on today? UM? So we just had an agenda 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.000 setting sessions. We're deciding the topics to vote on at 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:33.959 our next meeting, and we voted on a couple of 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.440 things today. We passed a resolution in support of repeal 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.560 of stan your Ground laws and had a moment of 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:44.840 silence for Traymon Martin, Jordan Davis, and Ahmad are Very 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.800 as well as other victims of UM stand your Ground 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:53.600 laws UM in our state and across the South UM. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.120 And then we also passed UH I think we spoke 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:00.960 spoken previously about the Lennontown resolution UM kind of like 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.320 apologizing and offer offering a form of reparations to folks 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.840 displaced by urban renewal. And so that was interesting. I mean, 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.120 we put like a year or so of work into 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.359 getting that pass, and one of the commissioners, one of 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.680 my fellow commissioners that previously um Stone Wall did actually 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:21.960 apologize for failing to condemn white supremacy previously and for 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.280 his role in stalling the legislation getting passed. I was like, okay, 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.200 I see you send him a little couple clapping emojis. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.160 I was like, Hi, bro, what du I mean? He 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:39.360 recognized that, like, like this coordinated act of forcible removal 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.920 from the you know, the homes these black families lived in, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.679 was an active white of terrorism and white supremacy. Like 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.200 he you know, upon his studying the historical documents and 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.480 seeing what those people had gone through, the intimidation they suffered, 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.880 the coercion, the you know, like and in some of 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.680 the language that like legislators were is saying to talk 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.639 about people who lived there, you know, like they were 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.880 white supremacists and he's sort of fiddling with us was 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:11.160 white supremacy, which, like, you know, there's an argument to 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.400 be made of like, oh, well, you want to bring 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.840 people to the table to like, you know, do this 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.280 work together. Do you really want to go around calling 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.560 people white supremacists. That's not been bridge building. But I mean, 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.720 ultimately I feel like you got call call it what 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.040 it is in order to heal. You can't heal. You 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:34.000 can't heal cancer, can't cure cancer if you go around 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:39.200 calling it appendicitis. Yeah, it's cancer. In order to do 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.960 the right treatmentum fix the cancer. And so yeah, if 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.520 if you're not even diagnosing what the problem is, then 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.000 are you I'm like, oh yeah, I think he started 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.600 to stone, like, no, this nig got cancer. Yo, doctor, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.840 please put on the chart that this man has cancer. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.760 Well damn. So, I mean, so what's the because it 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.600 seems like that's been kind of something that a little 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.720 project that's been going on for a minute now. So 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.080 what's the I don't know, like when when's when's they 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.640 actually going to start going into all these votes and stuff. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.680 Is it actually starting to go into So yeah, I 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.760 mean we passed the resolution tonight, and so it's like 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.240 sets in emotions all this additional work. So at the 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.320 site where we've already started this, but like to you know, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.920 the resolution like affirmed. We're working on it. Like we're 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.560 gonna put like a wall of recognition where it's gonna 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.559 be like historical markers indicating the neighborhood used to be here, 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.080 and like maybe some kind of like mural of like 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.640 what the neighborhood used to look like with the kids 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.880 running around and cute stuff. You know, actually where the 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.000 neighborhood used to be UM and then this committee that 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.400 I'm on with all these people who got you know, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.719 kicked out of their homes as children in this place 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.839 so that the university could build dormitories. UM. They get 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.320 to make recommendations to the budget to the county for 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.279 what we should spend money on in our budget every 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.880 year on so some of the immediate work to do, 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.920 Like we approve a budget in like May, so we're 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.880 probably gonna keep meeting, and so we can't The thing 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.080 about it was like we couldn't give them the money 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.400 for like, yo, if you were a house which was 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:18.560 worth two thousand dollars in the the nine six were still 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.440 there today, it would be worth like four. And we 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.560 can't give that person that three and eighty thousand dollars 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.640 back that he's taken from the family. But we said, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.440 he said, instead, y'all can tell us what to spend 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.200 money on at the city, right, And so we'll probably 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.479 start that work soon. So like this's like stuff to 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.920 do still like however, but it's like it's the beginning. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.200 It's a it's a it's like this thing finally got 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:50.760 you know, born long gestation period. I kind of already 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.560 know the answer to this question, but like it has 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.440 to be. Do you get frustrated at the fact that 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.760 it's like you can do like so much work on 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.560 the particular thing, but it doesn't It's like there's there's 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.159 no process for it where it's like, Okay, we put 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.039 this work in and now it's about to happen. You 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.560 like you always have to constantly go through the motions 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.760 of how things have to work. Does frustrating The most 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.320 soul crushing thing about being an elected official, having been 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.720 and identifying still as an activist is like adjusting to 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.280 the pace of government. It took us a fucking year 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.720 to like all agree on that what we did was bad. Yeah, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:30.840 and like we owe them some stuff and we didn't 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.480 even were even giving them the stuff they asked for. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.680 We're giving them some other stuff here, and we didn't 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.120 even get really what this has been a thing that 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.240 you've been dealing that you've been talking about since before COVID. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.280 Oh yeah, no, yeah, like February of last year. That 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.120 that was like that Nebery of last year when we 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.320 first started talking about this resolution was six months or 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.760 maybe even a year after we started writing the arrange. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.760 The resolution. So we've been doing this for two years 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.880 just to get like a wall saying this neighborhood used 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:02.880 to be there. These people get to give and put 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:07.200 on the budget and like a couple other little things. Yeah, 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.480 and so like in elected life, you sometimes wonder if 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.560 you're like losing yourself when you come to accept the pace, 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.560 But it's like, this is just how it works. I 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.680 have come to accept that it takes a year to 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.680 get something so small like that, Like, but should I 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.840 accept it or should I just like fucking go into 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:27.200 these meetings and just punch everybody in the face and 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.560 be like nah, niggd, like we do with it like that, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.800 no more done today, buck your six months, Like we 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.600 need to get this sh on today, you know. And 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.880 so it just is a constant struggle, like yeah, I 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.720 want to I want to be like, well, what can 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.280 what can you do to change that? But I don't 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:48.320 want you to give away your strategies a lot more 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.520 good people, Yeah, because when you're trying to get consensus 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.320 among ten motherfucker's that all believe different ships and care 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.840 to various different degrees or know what the fund is 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.960 going on to various degrees, some of whom not at 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:06.040 all know what's happening. Like it's like, uh, I don't know, 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.720 It's like, um, it's I feel like it's uh. It 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.840 reminds me of like home alone when they're trying to 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.280 get an airport and there's like kids trying to get 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.040 you're trying to count them and like everyone here and 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.280 then like you know, it's just a clown car just 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.240 trying to pile people in to get us to this 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.000 very simple destination. And if not not everybody, and if 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.440 not everybody's in the car, then they're still drinking PEPSI 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.480 mad upstairs, like not, Yeah, we're not on the same 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.880 page at all. Were watching alone recently, I don't know why. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:45.800 I don't know. Man, all right, well let's let's transition. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.120 What I did also of a note recently, is I 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.200 watched Judice in the Black Messiah this weekend. You know, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:58.040 I haven't watched you. I'll just get some one thing 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.240 funny that we're doing the episode that we're doing, and 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.439 I haven't seen the movie yet, but there's gonna be 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.440 not necessarily a reason, but there's an explanation for it. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.720 So we talked last week about the situation with the 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:15.200 rapper No Name, and the request of her to be 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.480 on the soundtrack for this new movie, Judas in the 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.120 Black Messiah, which is a I don't want to say 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.400 it's an autobiography, but it's like a what would you 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.640 what genre would you describe it as? I mean like 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:31.120 it it gives me a memoir like feel like an autobiography, 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.640 feels comprehensive of like he was born and then he 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.040 went to fifth grade. But I mean like snapshot really, 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.800 but I mean like genre, like would you say it's 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:45.679 a thriller? Like okay, So so it's more it's more 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.560 along the lines of being a biopic. But it's not 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.439 like a like an informant drama or like a thriller 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.880 or because that's a heavy element in it. It's like 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:59.800 the pension, the informant fields about what he's doing, you know, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.880 starting to I don't want to give too much away, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.360 you know, he kind of like feels the draws the 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.040 black panthers and like, oh, I what I'm doing wrong? Yeah, 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.520 we didn't do it wrong, everybody. So last Friday, um, 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.120 this new movie, Judas in the Black Messiah was released 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:20.000 to streaming and the film follows FBI informant William O'Neill 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.880 as he infiltrated the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.600 Party and set an event the you know everything that 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.760 would eventually lead to the assassination of the famed revolutionary 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.400 Fred Hampton. Now, um, would you say it's a good movie? 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.160 Like if you had to give it a letter grad 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.720 just just for the movie that you saw on the screen, 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.120 what would be your I did not feel qualified to 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.960 give a ratings a person as personal though you're not 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.200 giving You're not giving like something like I know you. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.720 I've talked to you about movies before. You're like, I'll 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:59.000 give it up. Be like, I'll give it a ninety 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.520 two points barely fairly an A grade. I'm slowly asking 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.360 on the Mariah Park on the on the lingual Franco scale, 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.280 you know. So, um, I think it was a good movie. Yeah, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.800 I think it's good. You think it was good? All right? 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.080 So I mean, I mean, like, as a leftist, I 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.040 think it was a good film for leftism, and that 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.000 like I heard, you know, because in our conversation about 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:26.000 No Name and her qualms with the film last week, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.560 you know, she was concerned. I believe that like his 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:34.800 politics weren't comprehensively represented in the film. Yeah, she didn't 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.079 think it was enough about him. You know, Like I 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.439 would agree that the left needs to get better at 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.320 like producing like compelling media to like draw people to 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.240 our ideas and educate folks. But like the left needs 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.920 to do that. Hollywood is not the left capitalism institution 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.719 or like industrial complex, and so all we need them 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.560 to do is to like introduce them to, like very briefly, 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.959 stuff like not sucking up Super Bad. And I felt 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.880 like from the jump, like and this isn't a spoiler 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.880 because like it's like like in the verse twenty minus 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.120 the film, like it's very explicit that like Fred Hampton 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.760 is this fucking socialist, and like he talks about socialism. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.520 They're all talking about socialism, and sure they don't get 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.040 into it a ton and the rest of the film 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.439 like they're not going into theory and ship they don't 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.320 get in a theory. They're not like talking about well 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.160 on page seventy six and like now you're not because 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.439 no one was to watch that because that's not an 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.720 entertaining movie. You know, we're trying to people, We're trying 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.439 to give him a taste and so people who have 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.319 watching the movie, you're seeing Fred Hampton being a badass 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.280 and there's like a gunfight, so the and so if 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.120 that's all it takes, it was enough of a teaser 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.280 for somebody who doesn't get sure about politics to look 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:51.040 it up Fred Hampton afterwards and then go and see like, huh, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.760 who is this? Like you know, yeah, and that's that's 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.640 that's cha whatever, Like yeah, I feel that's that's kind 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.760 of what I was. All I want's just to open 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.240 the door for people who see it and it's not 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.760 curious about more to go learn more. I don't expect 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.959 films from Hollywood to teach actually teach people about So 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.440 the movie. The movie came out and it's been getting 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.320 you know, good reviews. People seem to like it. Um 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.880 besides for the slight controversy with the no name thing 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.559 in the soundtrack and that particular criticism of it, I 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:31.160 haven't really seen too many um complaints with the film. Now. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.040 One thing that I have, you know, discoverag because you know, 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.440 we we talked about it and then a little bit 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.520 after we're like, hey, let's let's do an episode where 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.839 we're talking about Fred Hamptons and it's like just from 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.640 a basic you know, if you do somebody like you 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.920 just said, if someone wants to look up Fred Hampton 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.959 after seeing the movie pretty much, you know, just a 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.839 basic search, you're gonna come into a lot of stuff 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.800 about how he died, in the circumstances in which he died. 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:00.640 You know what I'm saying, um cointell pro uh rogue, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.959 FBI agents, and an informant struggling with what he's doing. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.800 Like all that sort of stuff makes for like an 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:12.040 intriguing story, whether it's you know, an article or think 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.400 piece being written about it, or whether it's a movie. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.040 So like most of the stuff that you're gonna find 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.040 about it is going to be, especially now, is going 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.960 to be about the assassination of Fred Hampton's you know, 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.040 like what what led to What were the things that 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.920 led to him being killed? And there's not too many 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.000 just flat out hey, this is who Fred Hampton was 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.200 and this is what he was about, you know what 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.080 I'm saying, without bringing in the aspects of his death. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.280 So I wanted to we wanted to use this episode 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:44.440 to talk about Fred Hampton, his politics and what lessons 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.120 can be learned from his revolution Before he was prematurely, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.720 prematurely taken away from Better Pigs. One last thing I 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.400 want to say on the film itself before we move 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.840 on to talk about the man. And I think, like 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.240 this point comes up and what we're going to day 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.280 about the man. But just like, if you haven't seen 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.760 the film yet, go into this, go into it with 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:11.640 this in mind. They cast thirty year old niggas to 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:16.680 play like like like he's staying field. His character is 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.080 seventeen years old in the in the real human, real life, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.520 and they got this like thirty old nigga player in 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.120 the seventeen year old child Fred Hampton, what was he 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:31.120 like nineteen? And they got fucking Daniel Kalua. I hope 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.200 that's not his last name. I think. Okay, hold on, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.360 let me look just be like called the nigga Kalua 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:52.680 and Kalua pronunciation kaluya close. Okay, Daniel Kalua. He is 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:57.360 thirty one years old playing twenty year old child. Well 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.600 that that could that's a Hollywood thing too, though, I 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.000 mean in the Hollywood thing that does happen. But imagine 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.880 if they had cast actual children to play these actual children, 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.960 Like I feel like the gravity of what they were 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:15.720 insconsin would like actually sort of thinking like you're you're right, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.480 but you know what, I think you're both right and 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.800 wrong because I think you're right on While that would 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.800 have been a bet from my just putting on my 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.240 movie nerd Ship, that would have been a better like 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.200 better aesthetically and it would have looked better because it 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.200 would have been more realistic to the you know what 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:39.440 they were portraying from a technical aspect, you're doing something 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:44.320 like this, you want motherfucker's that know how to act, 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.880 you know what I'm saying. And this is not shipping, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.640 not on a younger actor and stuff like that. But 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.840 the people who are in this movie are fucking veteran 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.800 actors who you can if you're a director, and you're right, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.120 they do a great job. If you're director actor, you 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.080 don't have to be afraid to put a camera on 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.280 Daniel Kluya for five minutes and have him just look 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.159 you express some emotion and stuff like that. But I mean, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.399 just and this is all you know, again, with all 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.240 due respect, if you're dealing with a seventeen year old actor, 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.120 you probably have to search a lot harder to find 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.520 that that actor who can do that. Who's that young, 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.879 you know, So I'll give him a break on that. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.240 But I'm like, I'm an older cat, so I've been 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.359 seeing high school students played by four year old motherfucker's 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.959 since I was a kid and ship, so it's all 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.040 it's all good with me. I get why they did that, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.440 but um yeah, so we're gonna We're gonna get into 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.879 that and a little bit more. We're also going to 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.320 do for the music discussion is we are going to 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.800 do a quick little mini review of the soundtrack that 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.000 kind of brought all of this to our attention anyway. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:51.359 It's a star studied hip hop extravaganzas soundtrack that they 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.520 made for this uh movie. So we're gonna go into 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.040 it and listen to some select cuts and kind of 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.200 give our overall thoughts on how this works a as 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.840 a rap album, but be also as a soundtrack that 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.280 is advertising itself as being inspired by the film that 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.000 you're I see on the screen. So that's where I'm 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:13.920 going to be judging with south track from we will 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:26.000 be into all that and more after the jump. Okay, 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.680 August is the year Fred Hampton was born, and what 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.840 is now summ at Illinois. His parents were transplants from Louisiana, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.600 some of the six million or so rural Southern United 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:45.120 States dwellers of African descent that north um to the northeast, Midwest, 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.000 and West in order to escape for economic conditions and 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.840 the Hellish racism under Jim Crow States in the South 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.960 um in between the years of nineteen six and nineteen seventies. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.760 So right there, smack in the middle, Fred Hampton's parents 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:02.000 have moved up to Illinois. He gets born, and from 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:03.920 a young age it was noticed that Fred was a 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.159 pretty gifted student and athlete. He even wanted to like 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.560 pitch for the Yankees one day, or play for the 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.520 Yankees at least, I don't know what position you've played. 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.159 But his future activism also shine really early on too, 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:20.119 perhaps a precursor to the Black Panthers free breakfast programs 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.920 that we're gonna touch on a little bit later. When 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.800 he was ten years old, he would host weekend breakfasts 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:27.919 for the neighborhood kids, and he would go so far 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.680 as to even cook all of the meals himself. What 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.040 do you think about that? So cute? I mean, I'm 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.119 gonna have a lot to say. I think about mutual 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.520 aid and its role in like shaping communities and like 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.080 pushing for transformation and communities as a part of this, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.200 because I think it's a huge lesson from the Black panthers. Um. 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:49.480 But I think in particular, like it's interesting to me, 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:53.800 just like the way the Great Migration shaped, like Black 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.040 liberation movement stuff is something I just would love to 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.400 learn more about and delve more into. As some that's 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.600 like my family didn't really leave the South, didn't go 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.040 nowhere down here. Someone was making the point that there 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.359 should be another Great Migration. You're saying that black people 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:15.800 should migrate back to the South of African Americans live 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:20.240 in the South South already exactly, So, Um, wouldn't it 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.720 be funny? Though? I saw this like stupid fucking meme 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.520 on Twitter or something that was like, you know, like 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.760 if we if like all the you know, tech bros 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.040 working on their MacBooks at a you know, Williamsburg coffee 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:38.359 shop moved to Montana or Nebraska or Wyoming or wherever, 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.159 you know, eight hundred thousand, five hundred thousand people, we 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.520 could like flip the sentences. I've I've definitely heard a 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.200 few right wing talking heads like make reference to that 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.760 losing their ship. About man, what are these people from 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.680 California moving to Texas? This is like I don't like 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.560 this ship, man, what's going on? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:00.639 But like you know, you get a hundred thousand of 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.040 black people to move to Wyoming to have like a 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:06.119 self sustaining I don't know, commune and some ship. And 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:11.760 also you know they also elect a new senator, Senator. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.560 Uh no, I do not advocate for a great migration 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:20.840 of any kind. South built the South. This is Arland. 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.160 Everyone should everyone come back to the South. Let's really 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:28.960 take a ship over. Let's reclaim Atlanta. Okay, So back 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:33.399 back to Freddie so so okay, so you know that 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:37.240 this is this activist part of him was being noticed 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.080 at you know, very young age, and this development of 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.520 organizing in the community and you know, starting these free 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.440 breakfast programs where he would cook for neighborhood kids. This 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.359 development would carry on into his teen years, whereas a 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:53.520 high schooler he would lead lockouts to protest blacks being 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.040 left out of the homecoming runnings, and he fought to 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.040 get more black teachers and administration hired by the faculty. 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.919 He ended graduating with honors and varsity letters, as well 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.080 as a Junior Achievement Award in nineteen sixty six. Now, 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.359 the amazing thing about that saying that to me, And 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:10.360 it's also like when you consider the movie, so it's 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:15.760 like Fred Hampton died in nineteen sixty nine, right, and 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:18.080 here I am just telling you that he graduated high 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.960 school in nineteen sixty six. So this means that all 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.720 of the not all, but it means a good chunk 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.920 of the impact and legacy that this dude left on 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:31.560 the world was between the fucking three years that he 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:36.320 graduated high school and died. This nigga went from Ayo, 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:42.400 why the no mo fucking black homecoming queens getting murdered 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:48.800 by the f year three years later? Wild wow? But 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:51.080