Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

  51 years ago today, on December 4, 1969, Chicago police, in concert with the FBI, assassinated Fred Hampton. Fred Hampton was only 21 years old. Hampton’s assassination was part of COINTELPRO, the counter-revolutionary program that identified Black liberatory movements as the greatest threat to the United States and worked to disrupt and destroy movements by any means necessary, including assassination. The designation of “Black Identity Extremists” as a threat by the FBI last year is a continuation of the anti-Black-liberation orientation of the FBI. • Fred Hampton was a dynamic and powerful leader who leaves us many lessons today. Hampton emphasized the need for dedicated political education to go along with the movement, citing the rise of Papa Doc in Haiti who was a successful revolutionary who turned into a terrible oppressor. He used this as a cautionary tale of what can happen to revolution without political education. Hampton worked among the most disrespected and impoverishe

  NFAC LEADER ARRESTED ON FEDERAL CHARGES John Fitzgerald Johnson, also known as Grandmaster Jay, is accused of aiming a rifle at members of the U.S. Secret Service and LMPD. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The leader of a Black militia group that protested in Louisville has been arrested and accused of pointing a rifle at officers during a protest on Sep. 4. He was arrested at his home in West Chester, Ohio and brought to the Oldham County Jail. NFAC leader John Fitzgerald Johnson, also known as Grandmaster Jay, has been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers after he allegedly aimed an AR platform rifle at members of the U.S. Secret Service and LMPD while they were on the roof of the Jefferson County Grand Jury building. https://www.patreon.com/theiconiumfou...

  Racist NDSU Snapchat group brought to light by Black Lives Matter members. FARGO — Several North Dakota State University students are in hot water for being a part of what the university is calling a racist group on the social media app Snapchat. https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/new...

  On December 3, 2014, protests erupted in NYC when it was announced that a grand jury did not indict Daniel Pantaleo, the officer that killed Eric Garner. Grand juries function as a defense of brutal and killer police. In general, grand juries will go along with what the prosecution wants. There is no defense attorney. The prosecutor lays out the evidence and why they think a trial should take place. The problem with this setup is that the vast majority of district attorneys are closely allied with the police. The counterwave of more progressive DAs is a more recent phenomenon. So the public was rightly outraged when a secretive grand jury process said that Daniel Pantaleo choking Eric Garner to death wasn’t even worthy of a trial. Eric Garner said he couldn’t breathe 11 different times. Pantaleo didn’t care. He used a banned chokehold and took Garner’s life. • Hawk Newsome, thank you for the reminder about this important date. • frankiedatrucker Put the sign down get your own justice

  You start to realize that these banks fund police foundations, and that Wall Street firms profit directly from police brutality.

  Along with protesters rallying in multiple US cities, largely White groups have also showed up and asserted their Second Amendment right to bear arms.

  @atuwindsor2020 WARNING: anti-Black racism. @DeltaChiWindsor created a noose and taunted their Black member with it while laughing. @UWindsor “allegations” “Taskforce” “condemn” Shocking video of Delta Chi Frat Uwindsor graduates who had made a noose and taunted a black member. https://www.whytheracecardisplayed.com