![]() ![]() On the positive side, his open willingness to use the royalties from his best-selling book Soul on Ice to help finance the early stages of the BPP, and his work to establish the Los Angeles BPP Branch (the first outside of Oakland, California, U.S.), are clear examples here. ![]() Eldridge personified those contradictions. Most people engaged in studying the history of African liberation movements in general and the BPP in particular already have some understanding of the contradictions within the BPP. Eldridge Cleaver without question was an enigmatic figure within the BPP and Clifford attempts to use this biography to show a balanced view of Eldridge Cleaver as insightful and talented while also displaying Cleaver’s brutality and ruthlessness. ![]() Revolutionary or Death is the 2020 biography written about former Black Panther Party (BPP) Minister of Information Leroy “Eldridge” Cleaver. ![]() “We cannot expect to rely on individuals, regardless of how charismatic and intelligent, to ‘lead’ our struggle because all of us are works in progress.” Just like we glorified the black leather jackets, black berets, and guns in the 60s, we still romanticize African people with guns and mouths that fire more inaccurately than the guns they carry. ![]()
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