How Democrats Can Win Back the White Working Class

An Article for New Lines Magazine

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eFred Hampton, chair of the Black Panther Party’s Illinois chapter, did not know he was about to die but he knew things were getting dangerous. In the months leading up to his 1969 murder at the hands of Chicago police, he often found himself surrounded by white street toughs who had migrated from the Jim Crow South, unemployed and unemployable, with slick-backed hair and denim jackets emblazoned with the Confederate flag.

But these men, who called themselves the Young Patriots, were not there to menace Hampton. They were there to provide security.

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