Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scared. I was afraid that one uniform was as bad as another and that black people would begin to kill white people. As I listened to Eldridge, I had to wrestle with what I meant by "civil rights." At the end of that long afternoon, I marked "Cleaver" on my ballot and handed it in. I had begun to understand that black people have a much better judgement about how to organize other black people than I did. If black people thought that they needed to defend themselves with guns, then I would have to respect that. I realized that...
...this country, have to move to a level of revolutionary struggle in terms of what we understand to be the true enemy, the enemy who perpetuates tyranny and oppression, poverty and the wretched conditions that we're subjected to in the black community. This enemy, as Eldridge [Cleaver] always puts it, is at three levels of oppression: the bigtime, tycooning, avaricious businessmen, the lying, demagogic, tricky politicians, and the fascist pig cops, militia, and pig agents who work for the avaricious, demagogic ruling class. Black people's direction should be to wage a relentless revolutionary struggle against...
...dashiki-clad black man and his white date: " 'Sensual, sexy Black man.' That's what her look conveys." But an approaching black girl conveys another look. " Traitor. Talking Black and sleeping white.' " The black women's liberation movement has its male adherents, like Eldridge Cleaver, who apostrophized: "Flower of Africa, it is only through the liberating power of your relove that my manhood can be redeemed...
...recent years, a number of books by black authors have swiftly become permanent bestsellers in paperback. Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and the Autobiography of Malcolm X have all sold more than a million copies. By contrast, Richard Wright's Native Son, America's first big bestselling black novel, has taken 20 years to reach the same level-almost 40% of that came within the past three years...
...Eldridge Cleaver's latest letter from his exile in Algeria discusses the movement's silence on the subject of Bobby Seale. Cleaver claims that the Panther Party has been instrumental in opposing racial schisms in American radicalism. Anyone with past contact with the Panthers would probably agree, particularly if a comparison is drawn to other factions of the black community such as the militantly nationalist Muslims or Ron Karenga's US. Cleaver continues...