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...equivocated, its complexity reduced to a sacrosanct canon of saccharine passages and colored pictures. It was a world from which textbook writers had effectively exorcised all inferiority and superiority, all ethical dimension. In our history books, other cultures were dealt with almost secondarily: America, like its TV heroes Ward Cleaver and Garfield Goose, survived all calamities and obstacles, fashioned mediocrity into national grace by way of an obtuse patriotism. Other cultures were compared to Amerika's, but with no sense of cultural relativity. From texts and Weekly Readers, we learned a national solipsism and irremedial egoism that made it possible...
...same day, Eldridge Cleaver, from his exile in Algiers. denounced Carmichael's contontion that black revolutionaries should seek to ally only with non-white, third world people. "Suffering is color-blind," Cleaver said...
...that he had threatened the life of President Nixon at the antiwar Moratorium rally in San Francisco last November. Seale has already been sentenced to four years in prison for contempt during the conspiracy trial of the Chicago Seven. Huey Newton, Panther cofounder, is in jail for manslaughter. Eldridge Cleaver is in fugitive exile in Algeria. Fred Hampton, Panther leader in Illinois, and Bobby Hutton, the national treasurer, died in gun fights with police. With Hilliard and Douglas locked up, Raymond Masai Hewitt and Don Cox now become the ranking Panthers still free...
...radicals in several other U.S. cities also formed parties under the Peace and Freedom label and ran Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver as a Presidential candidate. Most of the other branches are now also defunct...
...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...