Bobby Kennedy

Energy Professional and Investor | NYU Stern B School | Rogue Energy Partners

[Bobby Kennedy @bobbykennedy]

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[Don Salmon @dijoni]

We are sick and tired of people trying to tell African-Americans that there’s no such thing as racism in the justice system.

[LenaClip @Clippxxx]

The saddest thing I’ve seen on the internet😭�

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Your thoughts on this …

[🇵🇸Nela🇸🇩🇨🇴 @MoronNela]

Los niños de Sudán perdieron a sus padres a causa de la guerra y ahora son huérfanos. 😱😭💔💔🔻
🙏 Por favor, comparte esta publicación para que el mundo pueda ver la magnitud de los crímenes cometidos contra niños pequeños inocentes en #Sudán ‼️🇸🇩
#FreeSudan

[Bobby Kennedy @bobbykennedy]

@izamamaa I sincerely hope that the Gentleman is recovering from the traumatic experience inflicted upon him by these criminals.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

A group of white boys harass, taunt, abuse a black kid for almost two years.

They urinated in a cup, mixed it with apple juice and FILMED themselves making him drink it.

They shared the video online to bully him.

One of the white boys' dads then SUES THE BLACK BOY'S MOTHER for speaking out about it and calling the boys who did it racist.

And he just won $3.2 million.

That is the America we live in.

[Bobby Kennedy @bobbykennedy]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Six years ago, Ahmaud Arbery was murdered while jogging.

He should still be here.

[Wild Videos @FightStorage]

34-year-old Maxwell Anderson found guilty on all charges for k*lling, dismembering, and scattering the body parts of 19-year-old college student Sade Robinson on their first date.💔

[Bobby Kennedy @bobbykennedy]

Thank you Dr. @ARBernard @BarackObama @MichelleObama for your leadership and example of a life that reflects love for God, Country, and family. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾

[A. R. Bernard @ARBernard]

Barack Obama: former President of the United States, constitutional scholar, Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
Michelle Obama: Princeton and Harvard Law graduate, former First Lady, global advocate for health, education, and families.
These are Americans whose lives reflect intellect, discipline, and decades of public service.
To depict them as apes is not satire or politics, it is racial dehumanization, drawing from one of history’s ugliest traditions.
Every human being bears the image of God. When that truth is mocked, justice itself is sacrificed on the altar of racial ideology.
Disagree fiercely. Debate freely. Never dehumanize.

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

He was seventeen years old when the state decided he was disposable.
And what happened next revealed how easily America erased Black childhood when power felt threatened.
In 1968, Bobby James Hutton was still a teenager. He was a high school student from Oakland, California, known within his community as quiet, serious, and thoughtful. Yet history would come to know him primarily through the circumstances of his death, often stripped of the most important fact of all: he was a child. Bobby Hutton was the youngest founding member of the Black Panther Party, and among the Panthers he was affectionately called “Lil’ Bobby,” a name that reflected both his age and the care others felt toward him.
Bobby joined the Panthers not because he sought violence, but because he believed in dignity, protection, and community responsibility. The Black Panther Party was not only about protest. It organized free breakfast programs for children, monitored police behavior, and insisted that Black people deserved safety in their own neighborhoods. For many young people like Bobby, the Panthers represented structure, purpose, and a refusal to accept abuse as normal. At seventeen, he believed that standing up for his community mattered.
On April 6, 1968, just two days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Oakland was tense and heavily policed. That night, police surrounded a Panther residence where Bobby Hutton and Eldridge Cleaver were inside. Officers fired hundreds of rounds into the building and deployed tear gas, forcing those inside to retreat into a basement. The gas made breathing difficult, visibility nearly impossible, and the heat from the damage caused parts of the space to burn. For more than an hour, the situation escalated without restraint.
Eventually, the shooting paused. And then Bobby Hutton did what he believed would protect his life. He removed his shirt, raised his hands, and walked out of the building to demonstrate clearly that he was unarmed. Witness accounts consistently state that he complied fully. He did not fire a weapon. He did not threaten officers. He surrendered.
Moments later, police opened fire.
Bobby Hutton was killed at the scene. He was seventeen years old.
His death was not followed by accountability. No officer was convicted. The narrative quickly shifted away from the circumstances of the shooting and toward criminalizing the Black Panther Party itself, a familiar pattern in American history where state violence against Black youth is reframed as justified force. Over time, Bobby’s age was often minimized or omitted, as if adulthood could be retroactively assigned to make his death easier to accept.
But age matters.
It matters because Bobby was legally a minor. It matters because his decision to surrender should have guaranteed safety. It matters because Black children have long been denied the protections routinely extended to others. Bobby Hutton’s death exposed a truth that still echoes today: Black youth are often treated as threats before they are treated as human beings.
Bobby did not live long enough to graduate, to choose a career, to grow into the man he might have become. His life was cut short not in a moment of chaos, but in a moment of compliance. That fact alone forces an uncomfortable reckoning with how power operates when fear overrides justice.
Remembering Bobby Hutton is not about glorifying conflict or reducing his life to tragedy. It is about telling the truth fully. He was not just a Panther. He was not just a headline. He was a seventeen-year-old who believed his life had value, who believed surrender meant safety, and who deserved the chance to grow up.
Black history demands that we remember him as he was. A child. A believer in community. And a life taken far too soon.
Bobby James Hutton, 1950–1968.
The first Black Panther killed by police.
A teenager whose age must never be erased.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family. https://t.co/km7RXnDKcW

[Bobby Kennedy @bobbykennedy]

@brock_aller @Connor_J_Hughes And he wanted Lawrence Taylor’s 56 before he played a down of pro football 🤦🏽‍♂️

[Bobby Kennedy @bobbykennedy]

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[Lee Merritt @LeeMerrittesq]

Justice prevails: Ahmaud Arbery’s killers denied appeal, sentenced to life with no parole.✊🏾

[Bobby Kennedy @bobbykennedy]

@Gridiron_Media_ Immediately

[Ryan Clark @Realrclark25]

What happened today at Texas A&M was unacceptable. No young man should face that level of aggression outside of the field of play. Especially, not from someone there to protect. This officer had the audacity to do this in front of millions. What does he do when no one’s watching? It didn’t escalate today, but that doesn’t mean it never has or will.

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[Bobby Kennedy @bobbykennedy]

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[Idris @7signxx]

These images will haunt us forever.
Speak up for Sudan, pray for Sudan...

[Shehr Bano Official @OfficialShehr]

Kids are starving and dying in Sudan .....when will you speak up ?? When will you feel the agony and pain ??
#sudan
#SaveMuslimsOfSaudan
#SaveChildrenOfSudan

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The UAE-backed RSF strikes fear into families in Sudan — even mothers and children aren’t spared.