Fred Hampton's Assasination 40 Years Ago Today

Democracy Now had an important segment today (whole show was good actually) on the 40th "anniversary" of the assassination of Fred Hampton.

For more Hampton quotes, see "The Revolutionary Love of Fred Hampton, Sr." A sample:

"Without education, people will accept anything. Without education, what you'll have is neo-colonialism instead of the colonialism like you have now. Without education, people don't know why they're doing what they're doing, you know what I mean? You might get people caught up in an emotionalist movement, might get them because they're poor and they want something and then if they're not educated, they'll want more and before you know it, we'll have Negro imperialism."

In the Democracy Now segment, Bobby Rush is shown eulogizing Hampton. Democracy Now noted that he's currently a congressman, but didn't note that a certain Barack Obama attempted to oust him in 2000. Rush had said of Obama: "He went to Harvard and became an educated fool."