Fred Hampton was a radical. Judas and the Black Messiah downplays that fact | Akin Olla

The film is a laudable portrayal of Hampton, the activist killed by police in 1969. But it largely ignores his strong anti-capitalist politics

The war to own the legacy of Fred Hampton, the charismatic Black Panther leader killed in his sleep at age 21 by Chicago law enforcement agents and the FBI, has begun. Senator Cory Booker, the gentrification-loving neoliberal former mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has already staked his own claim. In an embarrassing 5 February tweet that he still somehow hasn't deleted, he partly quoted Hampton:

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity." Fred Hampton #BlackHistoryMonth