From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013. The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department.
Please look at Eldridge speech at BYU ..This white boy is from Richmond too 94801, 94803 , now in Provo Utah this year. Im certain you will add this to your best list. Love to hear what you think as well. Post here if yer so inclined . Peace and brotherhood
@@theinfamouspokeinrichmondc3543 Yes sir me.., Jimmy Lane. .Berkeley 1965 GMother was a welder in the shipyards. I just left El Sob in May to come to Utah and found out Eldridge had joined the LDS Church....Panthers are legends in my heart and mind. Im just a poor white boy who learned what love is living for years in beloved home of Etta Joe Mackie and her three sons. Shea oldest got cancer and passed .., Steven and Darrin and extended family of course . An odd situation some might say and I took some slack sometimes for my beliefs .., but never once im proud to say did I let that sway my heart. I love my people , thats all people ...what has blown me away is this speech by one of my heros out here in this bastion of super white America....It took my breath away
This speech at BYU shows a man who has battled with his beliefs...Mormons are big on testiment .. share your story of where and what you have been and tell what and why you have come through your trials and found God.. honesty with oneself ..I love him I wish I could tell him myself and shake his hand and thank him ..People talk shit about him but I dont see none of that
Eldridge had a lot more to say than what is heard here, as he was talking shit when talking shit was in style. His speech at Syracuse University in 1967 (once titled "Dig"), was more substantive. Bobby was the speaker, the communicator.
Cleaver later turned around and then supported Reagan in 1980 and 1984. He then became a Republican US Senate candidate in 1986. I met him briefly at that time. Fascinating person as he went through different stages of political beliefs and positions. My parents gave me a copy of "Soul on Ice" to read while I was in junior high school (I guess a strange act considering my parents at that time in the early 70s were upper middle class white Republicans but "wanted me to understand things") - made me appreciate what the Black Panthers fought for and what they did. His language in this speech may be coarse, but it is direct and gives great insight in the grievances of the underclass, and especially blacks, of that period. I am still a Republican, though not a Trump supporter, who recognizes that you have to listen to all the political voices out there to get to the truth. The truth is complicated and requires us to hear things we do not necessarily want to hear. That is the lesson I can pull from Cleaver's life.
I've always wondered why he became republican. Personally, I don't claim either party, i just didn't understand how he went from Panther to Politician.
@@rabekagshakur7476 Because Eldridge Cleaver knew from the 60s the democratic isn't shit. An has used the Black community only for votes an votes only. Eldridge had to run as a republican because he seen what the democrats done to his People. We still see it today.
I listen to this speech over and over again and I always pick up something new. This is a riveting diatribe for sure. "Head to the future, without the crimes of the past".
In the most controversial part of the book, Cleaver acknowledges committing acts of rape, stating that he initially raped black women in the ghetto "for practice" and then embarked on the serial rape of white women. He described these crimes as politically inspired, motivated by a genuine conviction that the rape of white women was "an insurrectionary act".
Those were the times!The Civil Right Act of 1964, landmark civil rights legislation, prohibits discrimination in a number of settings including: employment, housing, public accommodations. For the entire text of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, see FindLaw's codes section. Specifically, Title IV promotes the desegregation of public schools and authorizes the U.S. Attorney General to file lawsuits to enforce the Act. It was today allowed by SCOTUS 12:58h p.m.
The fact that he got half the panthers killed and was never prosecuted for the crimes that directly led to the death of young Bobby Hutton. He literally led young Panthers into a shoot out with the cops and was never convicted nor prosecuted for it. His rhetoric led to half the panthers being killed. He was a fool
I was a very young child when this man spoke. The days of Kennedy, JFK and Bobby, Malcom X, when for a season we were all filled with hope. He spoke as an aged man at Ball State University. He wanted a Mother in the White House. He wanted political candidates to be required to write their own speeches. Now, efforts are made to overturn Roe vs Wade. May 2022. And wouldn't it be interesting to know what Cleaver would say about Jan. 6th. There is an interesting speech in Ball State University Digital Library from Cleaver, Unity Week, 1995. Let me know if any can access it. It seems unshareable.
