Vendor Review: Lee A. Holmes I remember my dad telling me, “never join nothing you don’t know.”
DOMINIQUE FISHBACK as Deborah Johnson (Akua Njeri) in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
He told me he stood for Black Panthers, read many books about the Panthers, like “Revolutionary Suicide” [the autobiography of Huey P. Newton, (Random House 1973) the Black Panther Party co-founder with Bobby Seale in Oakland, CA].
son in the struggle for self-determination in the respective communities on their own terms.
The movie touched on a lot of different things. It spoke to what’s going on today as far as racism, sexism and all these other “isms.” That America, or white supremacist America, is not willing to let go of the isms to bring about a better America. How the FBI forced an individual to infiltrate the Panthers. How they assassinated Malcolm, assassinated King because of their willingness to bring about a better America.
Fred Hampton Jr.: First and foremost, I’m honored to be here. The Black Panther Party Cubs’ purpose is to talk politics, revise laws, push forward campaigns to free political prisoners. The streets are our office. Power to the people. Free them all.
On how this country manipulates, infiltrates and keeps divisions between people of different nationalities. I don’t consider myself to be Black. I am a national citizen, but those whom we call Black people have been oppressed and this movie speaks to that.
Khaliyq Muhammad: Thank you so much for this opportunity to come on here and speak. It’s always a pleasure to speak about the work that needs to be done. Certainly, there are big battles that we all have to fight. Sometimes we don’t get recognition on a particular project that we worked on, but the people that matter, they know. And it’s all about doing the work regardless of who’s watching.
This is not a movie about Fred Hampton. This is a movie about the change Fred Hamption wanted to bring about, a movie talking about what’s going on today in America that pits one against another, about left wing and right wing division that is tearing this country apart. As Jesus said in Mark 3:25, a house divided against itself will fall. www.streetwise.org
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