Hey Chicago People

[MalickSyXShabbaz]

What's the overall perspective that black folks have of Larry Hoover, Jeff Fort, David Barksdale in Chicago?

Misunderstood freedom fighters?
or Parasites to the Community?

@Barnett114 @CHICAGO @BrothaZay

 

[BrothaZay]

I'm not from Chicago

 

[MalickSyXShabbaz]

I'm not from Chicago

you know the politics in every city.
enlighten us

 

[Barnett114]

Breh, to be honest, I don't even hear them nikkas names.

 

[MalickSyXShabbaz]

Breh, to be honest, I don't even hear them nikkas names.

what about when they were relevant

 

[Vandelay]

Haven't lived here long enough to have an opinion, but I never...NEVER....hear them dudes names brought up ever in actual conversation with people who live here.

 

[Sterling Archer]

Other than some shyt for a nikka to preface a statement with, ain’t nobody talking about none of these nikkas man. If it’s anyone, it’s the ole heads cause the shorties for damn sure don’t give or know a fukk. And all old schools say is them nikkas was fukking kids and some other random shyt. That shyt been a wrap for them bruh.

 

[EBK String]

They haven't been relevant in decades, they are just folk heroes to us 30+ nikkas. These young nikkas dont know their lit and dont give af about history.

 

[MalickSyXShabbaz]

They haven't been relevant in decades, they are just folk heroes to us 30+ nikkas. These young nikkas dont know their lit and dont give af about history.

ok let me rephrase the qeustion

to anyone who is historically relevant, whats the fairest and most accurate assessment of them and thr sttructure they brought

ive heard it said that they were freemasons

 

[invalid]

The only person listed that I've heard mentioned briefly in a few conversation is Jeff Fort.

The conversations that I heard him mentioned in were from academic people.

Apparently, Jeff Fort grew up in Woodlawn which at the time was where many professional black families lived. He even attended Hyde Park Academy where lots of famous black Chicagoans attended. So lots of people knew of him across all sections of the black community.

The tone of the discussion painted him in a sympathetic light. He was described as being a smart kid that somehow or other got radicalized. And I think his initial activism helped move his reputation in a more favorable direction.

But that was pretty much it. Sympathy is what I got from folks who discussed Jeff Fort. The other guys I haven't heard mentioned in conversations among anyone that I know at all.

 

[TheBigBopper]

Breh, to be honest, I don't even hear them nikkas names.

This. No one gives a fukk about some grandpa ass gangsters who haven’t been in Chicago in decades.