Vendor Review: Lee A. Holmes

I remember my dad telling me, “never join nothing you don’t know.”

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].

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.

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.

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.