Free 'Em All Radio with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and the Lady of Rage 2022-01-12, 2022-01-12

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and The Lady of Rage

Date of episode: January 12, 2021

Project: Free ‘Em All Radio Collection

Callers: Unnamed first caller, Destiny, C from Tennessee, Aleia, Yamika?, Melvin Farmer, Unnamed sixth caller, and Tanisha

Index

00:00:05 -- Intro music: “Big Bad Lady” by the Lady of Rage

00:05:18 -- Host self-introduction and opening up call lines

00:07:10 -- Overview of the show: discussing revolutionary times versus reactionary times, answering calls, Lionel V. Gibson case

00:08:17 -- Chairman discusses police brutality and the conducive political climate

00:11:06 -- Chairman discusses class peace

00:14:06 -- Returned to the political climate discussion and how the United States administration does not acknowledge the black community

The state and police are lying to the communities

00:25:14 -- Encouraged calls and community checks

00:28:08 -- Unnamed first caller from Las Vegas and Chairman advocate for Black Panther Party program

00:29:00 -- First caller introduces another caller named Destiny who is a part of the Triple C’s

00:31:09 -- First caller came on again thanking the Chairman and Lady Rage

00:35:54 -- Lady of Rage discusses the murder of black women murdered by the police: Korryn Gaines; Tanisha Anderson case over; Rekia Boyd in Chicago; Aiyana Stanley case; Terika Wilson

00:39:32 -- Lady of Rage continued conversation about changed climate and accountability from police officers; overview of Lionel V. Gibson case

00:44:44 -- Chairman continues conversation about police brutality and how it is all related to the system that oppresses black individuals

00:46:24 -- Intentionally disrupted infrastructure in Ghana and the black communities

00:49:00 -- Politics transcends generational, gender, and geographical lines. Explains how history can be correlated to things currently going on in today’s political climate

00:49:58 -- Chairman explains story of Hitler allowing Jewish athletes into the Olympics as a token and correlates it how the oppressors will choose individuals they find more palatable to represent certain communities

00:54:30 -- Third caller C from Tennessee talks about the difficulty of watching a video of a black woman who was instructing her son to be strong to then be later killed by a police officer

00:56:42 -- Chairman describes how there is resistance within the black communities against the injustice

00:59:15 -- The difference between revolution versus war; Chairman discussed how resistance in gender and generations

01:05:10 -- Discusses political comedy; story about Jerry Springer’s mother telling him to be careful of who makes a joke about your community

01:07:12 -- Fourth caller Aleia talks about Korryn Gaines defending herself using laws and the negative comments from a video she posted about Korryn. She relates what she saw of Korryn Gaines to resistance to slavery from history.

01:11:15 -- Chairman discussed the dynamic of race and sovereignty; Story of former Mayor Daley Sr. involvement with the 1919 race riots

01:15:18 -- Explains how contradictions of laws need to be exposed. Uses example of slavery laws

01:19:08 -- Lady of Rage furthers conversation of Korryn Gaines and the importance of video documentation

01:21:22 -- Chairman discusses how there are situations where people cannot relate until they are in them; uses examples of Diamond Reynolds, slaves jumping from ships and concentration camps

01:24:33 -- Discusses state validation

01:28:54 -- Returns to conversation about exposing contradictions

01:34:28 -- Fifth caller 703 Yamika? discusses Korryn Gaines children and the unnamed man in the room. Connects it to 1970-1980 MOVE organization and the children, Wako, and Somalia

01:38:25 -- Caller continues conversation about sovereignty

01:41:00 -- Chairman examines the aftermath of war and what happens to the children. Connects it to a war tactic of the victors creating a community of the conquered children who can then relate to the victors.

01:44:15 -- Lady of Rage discusses the trauma the children of Korryn Gaines and the children of the MOVE organization

01:46:57 -- Fifth caller Melvin Farmer, civil rights activist. Weighed in on Korryn Gaines case and discuss the suicide by police law and other laws

01:52:17 -- Fifth caller continues about the California three-strikes law implemented by the Clintons

01:56:18 -- Unnamed sixth caller asking for support to free Brother Johnson in prison who was unrightly imprisoned by police

01:59:18 -- Chairman reiterates situation and how police use the system to their advantage

02:03:57 -- Final caller Tanisha from Las Vegas continues discussion about Korryn Gaines and important to react in revolutionary manners

02:05:19 -- Lady of Rage encourages those that have the same spirit of Korryn Gaines and those struggling

02:06:11 -- Co-host gives closing comments and thanks everyone that called

02:08:20 -- Outro music: “Neva (Remix)” by Scarface & Fred Hampton Jr.