'We had a Rainbow Coalition, and the beauty about that is ... Chairman Hampton recognized the fact that we could not talk about class struggle without talking about racism.'
, and connect people with legal help if they were dealing with abusive landlords or police.
Hampton’s death sent shockwaves through the Rainbow Coalition. Billy “Che” Brooks, deputy minister of education for the Chicago office of the Black Panther Party, learned about Hampton’s murder while he was in jail. “I had the pleasure of getting told by this cat … he was the warden in the Cook County jail,” he told. “He came up gloating. They had me in the hole. He came up and said, ‘They killed your punk leader.’”the crowd, he finally realized the full force of what had happened.
A member of the YPO introduces him in a twangy Southern accent. “I wanna introduce a man that come over here tonight from another part of town, but he’s fighting for some of the same causes we’re fighting for…. So I’m gonna introduce you to Bobby Lee here,” he says. Lee appears to have won the crowd over. At one point, the video cuts to an older Southern white guy who pledges his support to the Panthers: “I want you people to stick together, and I’ll stick by the Black Panthers if they’ll stick with me, and I know they will.”
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