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...There is in James Baldwin's work the most grueling, agonizing, total hatred of blacks, particularly of himself, and the most shameful, fanatical, fawning, sycophantic love of whites that one can find in the writings of any black American writer of note in our time." --Eldridge Cleaver from Soul...
...most famous and certainly the two most adroit writers of the sixties' movement, Eldridge Cleaver and James Baldwin, have aged in remarkably different ways. Cleaver, a former Black Panther, is now a strict conservative who bitterly renounces any kind of struggle against the establishment. Baldwin, however, continues to support the spirit of the civil rights movement from his self-improved exile in France Whereas Baldwin was attacked by some, most notably Cleaver, for his emphasis on education over activism during the 1960s, now it is Cleaver whose commitment to black equality appears tepid. And while their relative militancy has been...
...understand why these two great writers so far apart today, it helps to look at the difference in their attitudes back in the sixties. Cleaver's own radicalism seems to have burned him out and left him to fall into the secure lap of his arch-enemy, the right wing. Cleaver was always an activist first and academian second. Back then, he characterized himself as "a full time revolutionary in the struggle for black liberation in America." His posts as chairman of the Black House Council and Minister Of Information for the Panthers continually placed...
...Cleaver's objections to Baldwin, then, stem primarily from the fact that Baldwin, like Malcolm X just before his death, believed that the Black movement should concentrate on educating all races, especially young people, about suffering of Blacks and the injustices brought upon them. This focus was a direct repudiation of the factics of action groups like the Panthers that tried to overthrow society. The Fire Next Time, unlike Soul On Ice, is not concerned with history or politics but rather with how it feels to be an outsider, to be Black in a white world. Baldwin believed...
...from identifying with. Rocky by surrounding him with a bunch of ridiculously implausible albeit excellently interpreted characters. Cher swaggers through the film as Rocky's coke-snorting, fast-talking mother: short on homespun values but overflowing with love and support for her son. Though motherly love and June Cleaver are not necessarily synonymous, it is still difficult to accept this absurd hybrid of James Dean and Phyllis Schlafly. Every member of Rocky's extended family of hard-core bikers emerges as a candidate for a humanitarian of the year award by the picture's end. Must we really believe that...