Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) 1080p WEB

Storyline
Fred Hampton, a young, charismatic activist, becomes Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party - putting him directly in the crosshairs of the government, the FBI, and the Chicago Police. But to destroy the revolution, the authorities are going to need a man on the inside.

User Review
Here's the plain truth: Jay Edgar Hoover ordered Fred Hampton to be murdered in his bed. He viewed Fred Hampton as a socialist revolutionary and Hoover did not care about breaking the law to remove him as a threat to the way he personally thought the country is "supposed" to be. Jay Edgar Hoover did this at the behest of the rich and powerful of America who view socialism as a personal threat to their power and privilege.

Hoover also is on the record as having viewed Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X similarly to Hampton, as leaders of a socialist revolution.

If he was willing to murder one, why not all three? Who stops at one when they are taking out the leaders of a movement? Of course, the U.S. government will never, ever release any official information confirming that this is what occurred.

But I think we all know that that is what actually happened.....That Hoover had people hired to kill them. Or at least, that is what happened with King. Maybe Malcolm X really was killed by Elijah Muhammad, because Elijah seemed capable of that as well. But Hoover also had a major incentive to discredit the Nation of Islam, so who knows. But King was almost certainly on Hoover's order.

And Hoover's modern contemporaries are ultimately aiming to do similar things to anyone who tries to change this country in any kind of meaningful way.

Great film.