Talk:Fred Hampton

The initial line describes him as "American activist, Marxist-Leninist and revolutionary socialist." I feel that the second 2 descriptions are redunant. But also, they don't seem to be his main motivation. Nothing in there about race and what his focus was. For many whose main focus was racial equality or justice during the Cold War, they'd come across Marxist or socialist writings that seemed more in line with their thinking than contemporaneous American political discourse. They were not first a Marxist, then came to the conclusion for racial equality, but started looking for racial equality and found sympathetic voices in those writings (though where that writing came from wasn't necessarily beacons of racial diversity, and there may have been some pushing those aspects of it to help disrupt things in the West). I don't think the references should be taken away, but more emphasis up from on his focus on race in America in the 1960s should be more prominent at the start. (For archives, please note that this was initially part of a larger multisection post by KawaiiAmber, mishandled by archivers). — Preceding unsigned comment added by KawaiiAmber (talk • contribs) 05:54, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

I believe that either in the aftermath or legacy section, there should be a section on how the hatred of what he stood for has followed him after death, even 56 years later, as pictures of his gravestone will show it riddled with bulletholes, and the stone is regularly defaced in other manners as well. It's been said that it's "tradition" for LEOs to deface his grave. ~2025-33072-51 (talk) 18:28, 12 November 2025 (UTC)