The film opens with Fred Hampton giving an inspiring speech to his rainbow coalition calling for a revolution at the polls in November.
There are even white people in the audience holding bibles, so you know he’s charismatic if he can get through to Republicans. A redneck mother nods her head along with Fred's words and and wipes a tear from her eye. She then hugs a young black man next to her, symbolizing racial healing.
At first, Fred is suspicious of cops, until one day an FBI agent saves his life from a racist Republican would-be assassin. At the next political rally, Fred asks the audience to give a round of applause for the FBI, who are providing security for the event.
One day Fred is tragically slain by a bad apple in the Chicago PD during a routine traffic stop in his bedroom. When Hoover gets the phone call, he is heartbroken and personally apologizes to Fred’s family for his agency not being there to protect him. Everyone heals and agrees that the real hero is our democratic institutions.
To commemorate Fred’s legacy, the FBI director and local community leaders come together to establish The J. Edgar Hoover Institute for Civil Rights, which gives thousands of dollars in scholarships every year to black youths who start successful businesses in disadvantaged communities for more than two years.
Also a spunky female Klan member who impresses Hampton with her intellectual honesty and debate ability, and bonds with him over their shared love of baseball, so he hires her as policy advisor for the Panthers
theres a scene where a black woman with the panthers is calling out the panthers on being sexist and the spunky blonde republican is speaks up about how emphasizing equal rights for women is reductive and is praised for being a true revolutionary woman by hampton, theres also a subtle nod (via the black woman getting extremely angry for seemingly no reason) to the spunky republican white woman being hotter than the revolutionary black woman and whatever ounce of sanity i have explodes
this is all done via walk and talk
later when freddie and ainsley --i mean the white spunky blonde republican girl-- are laying in bed they have a cute bit where they throw around the racial phrases theyve had hurled at them in the past, in a meet cute rapid sorkin coversational overlap style. freddie goes "people call me the n word" and republican girl goes "sometimes black women call me barbie" and they kiss
"youre more than a barbie to me"
Her name is actually Annabelle but everyone calls her 'Peter' for some reason