Sep 25, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min · 12 segments
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Fred Hampton Jr.GuestJJHostAllenHostAbeeHostMattHostI was going to say, man, we can like that in general, the free breakfast program and the point about community.
Like when you talk about how we kind of have to broach this topic nowadays, even talking about the Black Panther, the legacy of people who are still alive, people born and raised in the city.
Like, again, you have to like with YouTube and their guidelines, you get around the danger thing.
Like when you when you do when you find like an average person.
Probably white dude historian on YouTube.
They'll talk about the Black Panthers.
First thing they'll do is talk about the police patrols.
And then, well, isn't it scary to black people with guns? So it kind of like sets up the stage for like whatever happened next is justified.
But because of that, like we talked about in the other elements of the 10 point plan, like we don't the 10 point program, we don't talk about them.
even for what they were, that point one being the free breakfast program.
And when you talk about people like Fannie Lou Hamer, who was so instrumental to the black civil rights movement.
I remember recently when we went to the civil rights museum, I got to read up a little bit more about her, her role with SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and trying to get people to vote, register to vote in Mississippi.
it was hell on earth getting people to vote, register to vote because they would beat, they would shoot at you, they'd threaten your life.
There were literally white people who were doing that.
And at one point she ended up helping to find the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which got like tens of thousands, almost 100,000 people registered on their party line as opposed to the traditional Democrats in Mississippi because they didn't even want black people to vote.
Like they don't physically stop you from doing it.
And it's like another thing that she did was a it was like a freedom like community garden like she did it because black people were being systemically black farmers were being systemically disenfranchised and discriminated against so she did community gardens for black people ran by black people um and and was able to help like bolster those and get support for those you talk about the free breakfast program that's another aspect because in the from what i've learned from the panthers is that you can do, you can protect with the weapons, you can protect black people in general, but you have to provide.
That's the thing is that until there's self-sufficiency there with black people getting the tools needed to provide for themselves, the things will be determined by white supremacists who are determining what your community deserves based on whatever racist judgment we're making next.
So it's like, do you believe that even when it comes to how we talk about the Black Panther Party and the teachings, like stuff like not highlighting the free breakfast program and what it meant is intentional in a sense that you couldn't imagine that the big dangerous threat that J. Edgar Hoover talked about was black people getting together, pulling their resources and providing food for everybody.
It wasn't even just black kids.
Like, can we talk to me a little bit more about that, that overall political aim at getting everybody involved in caring for those who can't care for themselves a lot of times it was children but a lot of times that's impoverished folk that's folk right next to you that might be food insecure technically and we don't view that as a systemic problem enough to fix it on a government level but when someone tries to fix it outside of that level that's like radical and dangerous yeah so
like even when we've been taught like you're more so like you kind of gloss over the impact and kind of focus on the tragedy of it, but it's like you're missing literally the impact and purpose of what it was for.
Yeah,
so like...
For people that don't know, too, before you answer, can you explain the free breakfast program and what it was? And then, because there's probably so many people that have this the first time they ever hearing that the Black Panther Party had a free breakfast program and what that
I was going to say, man, we can like that in general, the free breakfast program and the point about community.
Like when you talk about how we kind of have to broach this topic nowadays, even talking about the Black Panther, the legacy of people who are still alive, people born and raised in the city.
Like, again, you have to like with YouTube and their guidelines, you get around the danger thing.
Like when you when you do when you find like an average person.
Probably white dude historian on YouTube.
They'll talk about the Black Panthers.
First thing they'll do is talk about the police patrols.
And then, well, isn't it scary to black people with guns? So it kind of like sets up the stage for like whatever happened next is justified.
But because of that, like we talked about in the other elements of the 10 point plan, like we don't the 10 point program, we don't talk about them.
even for what they were, that point one being the free breakfast program.
And when you talk about people like Fannie Lou Hamer, who was so instrumental to the black civil rights movement.
I remember recently when we went to the civil rights museum, I got to read up a little bit more about her, her role with SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and trying to get people to vote, register to vote in Mississippi.
it was hell on earth getting people to vote, register to vote because they would beat, they would shoot at you, they'd threaten your life.
There were literally white people who were doing that.
And at one point she ended up helping to find the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which got like tens of thousands, almost 100,000 people registered on their party line as opposed to the traditional Democrats in Mississippi because they didn't even want black people to vote.
Like they don't physically stop you from doing it.
And it's like another thing that she did was a it was like a freedom like community garden like she did it because black people were being systemically black farmers were being systemically disenfranchised and discriminated against so she did community gardens for black people ran by black people um and and was able to help like bolster those and get support for those you talk about the free breakfast program that's another aspect because in the from what i've learned from the panthers is that you can do, you can protect with the weapons, you can protect black people in general, but you have to provide.
That's the thing is that until there's self-sufficiency there with black people getting the tools needed to provide for themselves, the things will be determined by white supremacists who are determining what your community deserves based on whatever racist judgment we're making next.
So it's like, do you believe that even when it comes to how we talk about the Black Panther Party and the teachings, like stuff like not highlighting the free breakfast program and what it meant is intentional in a sense that you couldn't imagine that the big dangerous threat that J. Edgar Hoover talked about was black people getting together, pulling their resources and providing food for everybody.
It wasn't even just black kids.
Like, can we talk to me a little bit more about that, that overall political aim at getting everybody involved in caring for those who can't care for themselves a lot of times it was children but a lot of times that's impoverished folk that's folk right next to you that might be food insecure technically and we don't view that as a systemic problem enough to fix it on a government level but when someone tries to fix it outside of that level that's like radical and dangerous yeah so
like even when we've been taught like you're more so like you kind of gloss over the impact and kind of focus on the tragedy of it, but it's like you're missing literally the impact and purpose of what it was for.
Yeah,
so like...
For people that don't know, too, before you answer, can you explain the free breakfast program and what it was? And then, because there's probably so many people that have this the first time they ever hearing that the Black Panther Party had a free breakfast program and what that
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