Month: March 2025

Timothy Hayes

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So yesterday I had a lot more on my mind than the Super Bowl. Or the halftime show that I really didn’t pay much attention to as I was very tired and was watching the game with my son and his family. I was more interested in what High School my grandson got into ( it is one of Philadelphia’s finest) I spent most of the day with the parents from the meeting I had Friday who came back to turn in the guns they found among their children’s belongings. 28 parents brought in 32 guns. An impressive amount for what was mostly a group that heard my message for the first time. Like I tell them all “they can be their children’s “bestie” and respect their privacy when they turn 35. In this time you need to know what they bring into your house” a simple way to put it…but it works.. I’m leaving now to destroy and dispose of those guns in the “usual” way. If you have been reading my posts for a while you know what that is. We always say a prayer as we get rid of the guns because like many of you have said to me, each one could be a life saved. It’s not an “easy” mission …but after years of organizing and doing voter registration and all those decades in the movement and those years in the Black Panther Party and the years of trying to help good people get elected ..this……trying to stop my people from shooting each other could be my last fight. And yes …I got lots of haters out there…one of them now looks for stuff to post that he thinks attacks my positions and spends a lot of time spreading his hate…most of the time he doesn’t even understand what the posts he is sharing are saying….He must have a lot of bullshit time on his hands. Going to meet two young people and two members of the clergy now…and do what we have to do…..the struggle continues..

These are pics from last week when I spent a day with students at Neumann University, just outside Philadelphia. There were students studying to be Journalists and students studying to be Historians…I have done this before at colleges and just talked to an audience, But these young people had spent the week researching and “vetting” me and had questions about every part of my life ..from growing up during Jim Crow in the “projects” to my teens in the civil rights movement ..and lots of questions about my small part in fighting alongside revolutionaries in Angola ..and they knew about my time in prison in Israel and were very curious about how and why I came to Philly ..Oddly the questions about the Black Panthers came last…The laptops were flying and it was at first kind of scary that there were sources all over the internet about my life …some of it about things that I have never spoken about. But these students were very respectful..and it was great that one of them pulled out two books as “sources” about my life….not everything is on the internet. I got lost driving home..Neumann University is in Aston, PA……NEVER HEARD OF IT….good to still be useful in my “golden years”