Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soul on Ice, Cleaver...
General Curtis E. LeMay and the Peace and Freedom Party's Eldridge Cleaver can probably boast (if boast is the word) even more precarious futures. The general has lost his $50,000-a-year job as board chairman of a California electronics firm. Cleaver, who won nearly 200,000 votes, is headed for a California courtroom to stand trial for assault with intent to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon-the result of a shoot-out with Oakland police officers last April. In the meantime, he is lecturing at Berkeley...
...CLEAVER points out that the black man's problems in America are not independent of those of other oppressed pepole. It is no accident that Malcolm X went to Africa, that Martin Luther King was against the Vietnam War, or that the Vietcong have warned black soldiers of impending terrorist activities in Saigon. "The blacks in Watts and all over America could now see the Vietcong's point: both were on the receiving end of what the armed forces were dishing...
...emphasis in Cleaver's book is on black/white phenomena in the individuals of this country, our society, and the world. He tends to ignore two things. First, he has long passages of bitter criticism of the white race for genocide and brutality. I think the was in Biafra shows that genocide is not an evil committed only by the white race. Secondly, Cleaver has an intricate description of the psychological hangups resulting from our divorce of mind and body. These are crucial to our self-understanding, but I think our psychosexual problems in America are caused by the machine...
...Cleaver gathers together the problems of individuals in our society, the conflicts of black and white, and the struggles of nationalism and the status quo. Most important, however, he shows their dependence on each other and shows that we all--black and white, young and old--are tied together in a period of great and serious change...