Thanks to Curiosity Stream for sponsoring this episode. Go to curiositystream.com/CynicalHistorian and use the code CynicalHistorian for a $14.99 annual subscription. Click "read more" for further info, corrections, and bibliography Check out Lynn Burnett’s public history of racial justice website, make sure to check out the resources tab for tons of material: crossculturalsolidarity.com/ The stuff specifically on the BPP: crossculturalsolidarity.com/black-panther-party-resources/ Thanks for watching! Please consider supporting the channel by buying merch: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian Or by donating to my Patreon: www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian *[reserved for errata]* Here are some related videos: race riots: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qqeSnqaGmtSmmIE.html Olympics: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ja53jKmesJvYaYk.html US sports protest: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kMBmf5yS0r2siWw.html *Bibliography* William O'Neil interview: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7majMdkmtSqZac.html, full transcript: digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/one5427.1047.125williamo%27neal.html FBI files on Fred Hampton: vault.fbi.gov/Fred%20Hampton/Fred%20Hampton%20Part%2001%20of%2003/view vault.fbi.gov/Fred%20Hampton/Fred%20Hampton%20Part%2002%20of%2003/view vault.fbi.gov/Fred%20Hampton/fred-hampton-part-03-of-03/view And all of COINTELPRO: vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro Curtis J. Austin, _Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party_ (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006). amzn.to/3ffepGj Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, _Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party_ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013). amzn.to/2SjIxrc David Cunningham, _There’s Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence_ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. amzn.to/3hU0iIi Todd Fraley and Elli Lester-Roushanzamir, “Revolutionary Leader or Deviant Thug? A Comparative Analysis of the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily Defender’s Reporting on the Death of Fred Hampton,” _Howard Journal of Communications_ 15, iss. 3 (Summer 2004): 147-67. Craig Mcpherson, “You can’t Kill Chairman Fred: Examining the Life and Legacy of a Revolutionary,” _Journal of African American Studies_ 23, Iss. 4 (December 2019): 276-298. Fact checkers: slate.com/culture/2021/02/judas-black-messiah-true-story-fred-hampton-accuracy.html www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-history-behind-judas-and-black-messiah-180976975/ www.politifact.com/article/2021/apr/14/fact-checking-judas-and-black-messiah/ www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/judas-and-the-black-messiah/

For people wondering why the Young Patriots in Chicago were obsessed with confederate memorabilia, the Young Patriots were based primarily in Uptown, a poor neighborhood whose population was 80% white people from the south in the mid-60s. After the collapse of this leftist movement, Uptown’s dwindling whites would go on to form the Uptown Rebels, a neo-Confederate gang that became intertwined with the already present web of Puerto Rican and black gangs in the neighborhood. In the 80s, the gang would associate with the wider neo-Nazi movement, suffer a massive decline after federal crackdowns, and became entirely defunct by 1992.

When they mentioned at the end that Hampton was just 21 and O'Neal was just 17 (17! a goddamn teenager!!) I was blown away. Throughout the film I thought they had to be late twenties to early thirties. It left me even more shaken about the tense, dangerous environment they were in, and the tragedy of the deaths hit harder knowing the membership was so young.

Always sobering to remember that a lot of the black Panthers leaders were so young. Like man, I’m 23 so it’s pretty wild to think Hampton was my age.

i would have really liked this film more if the actors in it were younger. its easy to forget how young the Panthers involved were, and i think thats a large aspect of how horrifying the governments actions were against them.

I wonder if there will be movies about more controversial topics like Black Separatism (Black Liberation Army, Republic of New Afrikan and Kawasi Balagoon)

The casual “Wilson” drop in Reagan’s name killed me 😂

I wonder how many people that could've changed this world were killed in instances like Fred Hampton and the like.

I really loved this movie, one of my favorites of the year so far. The inaccuracies you talked about really do suck, but at the same time, the fact that it’s as accurate as it is is amazing

Interestingly the feminism and anti-poverty stances of the Panthers was a solidification of the concept of intersectionality, a viewpoint King held later in his life that was responsible for much of his personal loss of popularity in the last months of his life.

The mischaracterization of the Black Panthers is still one of the worst sins of the U.S. Demonizing black Americans for having the audacity to protect themselves from racist protected American institutions is disgusting.

It's very interesting on how the narrative of the BPP has changed in just a few years--not that the revisionist, more nuanced viewpoint is yet predominant, but only five or six years ago one hardly heard about these ambiguities That there's a movie in this explicit thread is a tacit sign of at least some progress...

Yes, been waiting for this to drop ever since you made that video in the black panthers. Love your work man, keep it up

I do like how cinema has gotten away from the viewpoint that the BPP were the "bad ones" in the civil rights movement and has gotten more into the nuance of who they really were which is morally gray

Ironically I was one of those kids who partook in the free breakfasts in Oakland.

I hate when people compare the black panthers to the KKK the black panthers never have done the things that the KKK has done to black people.

i want to see Candace Owens reacting to this movie btw glad seeing W'Kabi redeems himself after helping Killmonger

Excellent review Cypher, enjoyed hearing about the history of the Black Panther's again, and your thoughts on the film. One thing I love about your channel is I can get these great insights on more recent history. Keep up the great work!

4:03 REAAAAGAAANNN!!!

Huge fan. Keep up the great work!

Thank you for covering this movie

Been waiting since I saw this month's ago, thank you

I never knew I loved history so much !!! Thank you for awakening this in me ❤️

i was waiting so much for this!!! thanks man!!

you know what? i very much like this video and how it balances out between the COINTELPRO and the BPP, despite its issues And just like Cynical, feels more neutral and organic to accept its thanks to that im always lucid when Cynical is covering a subject, to learn better. Keep up with the awesome videos TCH

Another insightful video thank you for your work C H

Cynical Historian, being a movie and a history buff, I love your channel, and I have binge-watched quite few episodes. "Judas And The Black Messiah" is on my watchlist now! Thank you for the lession in black history!! I watched your assessment of "Hotel Rwanda" recently. This is a movie I have avoided so far, because I had misgivings about it's historical accuracy. I have to say that I am quite willing to accept a certain amount of historical incorrectness if the movie is really good. Although I know perfectly well that Salieri did not kill Mozart, "Amadeus" is nevertheless a great movie. And Charles Laughton is a wonderfully evil Captain Bligh, although the real captain of the Bounty had a very different personality, and the real Fletcher Christian was certainly no Clark Gable but a bow legged 20-something who tended to sweat heavily. However, if I watch a more recent movie about a subject which is still important for us today, I find it very unnerving and regrettable if it has very little or nothing to do with real events. And it is terrible if real people get tarnished by a popular movie. Have you ever looked into the Denzil-Washington vehicle "The Hurricane"? I love Denzil Washington, and I also liked "The Hurricane" when I watched it for the first time, although the white-savior motive was a bit too pronounced for my taste. But the movie gave me a fuzzy warm feeling when I learned that it was based on a real story. However, when I started to research the subject I was shocked to discover that the movie had very little to do with reality, and that Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a has-been boxer and a seriously bad lot who told a lot of lies about his life. But it got worse: the policemen who investigated the murder which they suspected was committed by Carter, were not at all evil and corrupt, and they did not do all the reprehensible stuff we see them doing in the movie - and there is even the distinct possibility that they were not even wrong. Carter may have been at least actively involved in the crime. This raises the question if those who make a movie based on a true story should be aware that they have a certain responsibility to get at least the basic facts right! I was very disappointed when I discovered an interview with Denzil Washington where he stated that he could not care less if the movie got the facts right. Now, Denzil may have been just a bit flippant, and when The Hurricane was made, he was not yet in the envious position of having so many role offers that he could afford to turn down such a juicy part. Anyway, I feel strongly that movie makers should strive for as much historical accuracy as possible. If they want to deviate from the known facts they should be open about it and announce that they have been inspired by historical events but chose to deviate from what really happened. And it would actually help to use fictive names for their characters. But oh well, this problem is centuries old. There is a great playwright whose works we all know well. He wrote a wonderful play, called "Richard III", and he created the perfect stage villain. All great stage actors want to play Richard at least once, and they could not care less if Richard was really a villain or a misunderstood king who was loved by his subjects during his lifetime, but who became the victim of a vicious Tudor propaganda campaign after he had died bravely on the battle field. Heck, we are not even completely sure if we know the real name of that great playwright - but his plays and sonetts are so great that for most of his audience it does not matter a great deal 😉 Interesting tidbit: Bob Dylan wrote the well known song "Like A Hurricane" about Carter - but when he eventually learned more about the case, he never performed the song again!

Dope video Love ya man

My favorite Reagan quote at 8:20

I wonder what the bad comments will look like

You deserve more subscribers and will get what you earned soon I hope

Nicely done.

Man I really appreciate your videos bro, keep up the good work.

Great video

It's very very interesting watching their history in retrospect and reflection of current events and politics

Great video! Btw whats the music here? It’s awesome!

Great Work.

I‘d love to see what you think of the movie "Das weisse Band". It doesn‘t exactly fit into "Based on a true Story", because it isn‘t. But nonetheless, it could be interesting.

Them offering him a business is supposed to illustrate the betrayal. Making him like Judas who sold out the messiah for silver. It’s a movie, that’s a creative liberty

You make great videos here, obviously KZfaq (whether by algorithm or hand) doesn't promote your channel like it once did, but keep up the good work.

I would love to know where you got the footage of Reagan at time stamp 7:53

UP THE PANTHERS! That's the kind of activism we need!

Please tell you'll consider doing a review of The 24th. I'll throw money at you for this happen if possible.

I knew the real Roy Mitchell. He served in the Korean War and left as a corporal. Years before he was one of the special agents that caught the suspects in the murders later known as the Mississippi Burnings. He cared for many black men, getting them off the streets and watching out for them. But he bought into what he was being told and what he was being ordered to do. And he felt he was doing his job. He was still riding the high of a young agent that just help solve a historic murders. I met him after his retirement and he told very few about his involvement in the Black Panther. He had a huge scrapbook of photos and news articles. He would talk about the Mississippi case and very little else. He always carried so much guilt and pain. He would talk to me, show me photos and confide in me things he said his wife didn’t even know. Mostly of the amazing young black men he met. How many were like his own kids to him. But I could hear his voice trail off when talking about his part in it. And he would ask me to pour him another scotch. His guilt and anger that he self medicated cost him his family. I just wanted people to know that he didn’t go on to live happily ever after. Riding the wave of his actions.

"Their antagonism was symbiotic" - Cypher, you're looking for "dialectic".

I wonder if you will review Spike Lees Panther as well

Thank you... good points... PBS The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is also a good watch cheers

Thank you.

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Finally got around to watching this movie, highly recommend it. As a leftist it’s easy for me to want to paint the panthers through rose tinted glasses, but this film did a wonderful job portraying them fairly. The one thing that made me turn in my seat when I watched it was, just as you pointed out, the error about Nixon being president in 1968

Cypher, I thought you already did a video on this movie before this.

03:46 Black Nationalism and Black Separatism are competing philosophies. The Nation of Islam came on the scene as a Black Separatist group. The Honorable Elijah Muhammed wanted Black people or his group to be annexed from the USA, similar to how Native Americans had land set aside for them. Blacks that fight for equality within the system while simultaneously fighting for the right to not be assimilated are Black Nationalists. (Assimilation versus integration versus segregation, and pluralism must be understood before really understanding Nationalism from the point of view of an ethnic minority.) In the USA, Black Nationalists regard their citizenship rights as unalienable (as it is meant in the US Declaration of Independence) and equal to all others, especially White Men. Some Black Nationalists have a global perspective and identify with their genetic geographic origin, Africa. This group is called Pan Africans. All Black Pan Africans are Black Nationalists but not all Black Nationalists are Pan Africanists, but neither are Separatists and neither embrace assimilation. Any of the philosophies can embrace either violence or nonviolence as a strategy, but none embrace nonviolence as a moral absolute. The Nation of Islam, the primary Black Separatist group, originally prohibited its members from voting in elections, running for elected office, and enlisting in the military. These are key Separatism traits. Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr were Black Nationalists. Both fought for equality within the system. Unfortunately, Dr. MLK, Jr was rebranded as an assimilationist. His fight was for equal access to public accommodation. An assimilationist would argue against Blacks maintaining race consciousness and against Blacks being apart from Whites physically, psychologically, or culturally, ideas which the Rev Dr. MLK Jr. never promoted. Now, I'll continue watching the video.

Do you have a source or know anything about Earl Warrens denouncing of Reagan’s racial politics? (I couldn’t find anything online about it)

Your commitment to accuracy is much appreciated! Things happening right now would make a lot more sense instead of these mass media narratives demonizing the victims and gaslighting Americans

Dammit, Ronald WIIIILLLLLLLSSOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!! Reagan finds another way to be terrible.

please do a video on the movie chicago 7!

I am open to being wrong on this but I would have liked if you mentioned Newton’s side of the murder case, if you read his book Revolutionary Suicide he tells the story from his perspective. He says the cops pulled him over and made him get out, he brought his law book out with him as he usually did with these types of stops, and the officer took him behind the second cop car, not the car of the cop who pulled him over and who Newton was accused of murdering, and the cop punched Newton in the face and then shot him in the stomach, Huey was in and out of consciousness and could not recall what happened but reading further into his book about the trial it seems apparent he did not do it as the prosecution played very dirty and even brought in a fake witness, a bus driver who claimed to have seen it but in later retrials was found to have been 2 miles away at the time of the incident. Not to mention his entire time in the hospital cops were tormenting him, not letting him sleep, gave him nerve damage from how tight the handcuffs were, beat him more while he was shackled to the bed, and refused to let black nurses care for him

Reagan confirmed Fudd.

I've heard two different claims about J. Edgar Hoover talking about Roy Mitchell's daughter, can someone provide me a source if this scene really did occur or didn't?

After watching this insightful review, I am so going to watch the movie! I hope Daniel gets an Oscar! This just shows how we don't have enough young black actors, we couldn't even get the right age actor to play the role.

When Hampton says 'Tricky dicky nixon' the movie seems to be quoting him when he is talking at a trial. it can be found here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLCDpL2ju9ColKc.html I don't know when this speech was, but it seems that the movie was trying to quote Hampton directly.

What's the music in the into and outro?

It’s fascinating how these events so strongly effect the black community even to this day. Ik it wasn’t very long ago, but the very apparent and direct correlation this has to gang violence is stark. Thank you for covering this! Appreciate your work!

Do you consider doing a review of Malcolm X 1992 ?

I want and need a young lord's movie. Or a movie on Pedro Albizu Compos. A hero to many killed by the US

The promo made me think that a video from you on the subject of Malcom X could be interesting. He is a glorified figure, yet some people (myself included) actually don’t know too much about what he believed. Also, may I ask if you would consider Malcom X a black supremacist? I remember once hearing someone claim that. I know he was a black separatist and an influential figure with black power, but I don’t know enough about him to be sure if he believed blacks were superior to whites.

I remember growing up in my neighbourhood and the Black Panthers were always fighting the Pink Panthers

Another key reason why the Panthers died was Nixon and his War on Drugs. He was directing targeting the Black Panthers and Hippies.

I see his lordship graced is with presence. So kind of Him

Panther Power did a ton for the community back in the day

Lol even just mentioning the name Wilson fills him with such hate.

Can anyone tell me/find a source of how the black panther party felt about interracial dating or marriage? Just for the record I’m mixed (black/white) I was at a restaurant a few years back and there was a black man wearing panther shirt across from him was his white wife and mixed daughter. I thought it was a funny F you but then I was thinking would the painters be cool with that, thinking some black revolution groups feel a type way about it.

I grew up in the projects and was treated like an outsider because I was white.when Fred Hampton said racism is something capitalism use to keep the poor down I felt that.

Thanks so much means a lot

Lol I love the Panthers but I could tell the FBI informant was false. The FBI doesn't seem like they'd be so ignorant as to have just one informant member outright kill another and then have them tell other members. On the flip side I would expect a Panther to act so brash though because the Panthers weren't as organized and disciplined as the FBI.

i hope you want to review "Malcolm X" movie in the future

sorry I had a fight in the middle of your black panther party

I still want King Richard I, what kind of cat is he?

I like that clip of the white cop standing there letting the black radical say what he pleased.

I mean I know you can't cover every aspect and nuance of attitudes towards women across every chapter but I'm side-eyeing that section

Nice

Feeding the algorithm.

Can you do a video on the Nation of Islam?

so this is what it's Based on

Can we please get "All The Way", "Nixon", and "Malcolm X" reviews please 🥺

Daniel Kaluula honestly ruined the movie, he talked to fast and needed subtitles to see what he said. Daniel looked nothing like fred, I hate they used a fake name for a real organization. The movie was ok, I just wish someone else was casted as Fred Hampton.

Great video. Just on the Newton's alleged shooting however I think it would have been good for you to point out the unreliability of the witness testimony and all the shenanigans that happened during his trial

I met members of the Hampton family. They warned Fred that politics would be rough. He should have listened to them

Why did this film do so bad in the box office it looks great.

The Black Panther turns startled! Dynomite!

How loud is the voice of the unheard have to be before people finally start listening

5:33 an “Anti-Lynching” mandate

Background song

Good movie

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Pretty sad this movie kinda bombed

Off topic. I just went on a Haunted tour in Santa Fe and the guide made a huge deal about the Native Americans keeping slaves and their supposed rampant cannibalism. 🙄

I wonder how much money was made selling these guys berets and jackets