We learned in school that George Washington led a ragtag army against the greatest army in the world, the British army.

So he led this ragtag army, he overcame the oppression of the British throne,

he became president of the United States, then he went home to Mount Vernon and lived out the rest of his life as a peaceful country farmer gentleman.

That was the Mount Vernon that they teach in school especially to white children that you might resist tyranny and you might still survive.

But for us, we had no Mount Vernon. They wanted to show us if you resist white tyranny, white

oppression, you will die.

That civil rights leader Robert F. Williams speaking the truth.

History is written by the victors, the survivors, the oppressors, the oppressors, the people who own the printing presses and decide what's taught in school.

Black Americans are taught that our ancestors were docile, childlike beings who were too

incompetent to find a way out of slavery.

We're taught that nonviolent protest and forgiveness

are the only ways we can achieve our goal of liberation,

a liberation that can only be granted by benevolent white people.

On one hand, we're supposed to celebrate the white so-called heroes of the American Revolution who use force and violence to stand up against British

oppression and fight for their independence.

But on the other hand, we're supposed to feel no love for freedom fighters such as Malcolm X and the Black Panthers.

And what about Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Black Panther Party and legendary Chicago

organizer, founder of one of the first multicultural political organizations, the Rainbow Coalition. an

of one of the first multicultural political organizations, the Rainbow Coalition. A man of tremendous vision and deep love for his community.

A man who was so effective the FBI and the Chicago PD assassinated him in his bed as his children slept

in December 1969.

Fred Hampton has been dropped down the memory hole of American culture.

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