Eldridge Cleaver speaking at UCLA 10/4/1968

[@wayneghent6045]

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".

[@theinfamouspokeinrichmondc3543]

This is absolutely one of the best speeches that I have ever heard in my life. Thank you for posting!!

[@jimpossible855]

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]

@@jimpossible855 I will most def check out that speech and give you my feedback. Who is from the 94801 and 94803? You???

[@jimpossible855]

@@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

[@jimpossible855]

Eldridge is a MAN to measure other men by

[@jimpossible855]

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

[@RobertWBates-hw5ej]

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.

[@obianujuikeaka9947]

Robert Bates this comment was beautiful

[@BarnabyWild13]

Robert Bates thanks for comment

[@rabekagshakur7476]

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.

[@wayne47able]

Cleaver was a full and an idiot who got half the Panthers killed

[@teckswatts3936]

@@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.

[@homoerectussemenallyretent6638]

Kareem Abdul Jabaar was attending UCLA at this time....i wonder was he in attendance.

[@dakingofmines2589]

*I like Eldridge Cleaver and how he spoke the truth in 1968 (great choice of words). The same stuff is going on as of June 19, 2020.

[@viyahingra183]

Add March 2021

[@LayLoow]

2024

[@jggrimm]

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.

[@annagordon9171]

First time I ever voted, I voted for my brother Eldridge Cleaver.

[@pauldeveaux1517]

Your brother was a serial rapist.

[@mrautomaticcharismatic4289]

Much love salute to you

[@johnalexander1868]

This brother was insane. Kool but crazy

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[@iSee109]

How does he compare to Kanye West?

[@liam-w9f]

@@iSee109 Both controlled opposition with an obsession for YT women?

[@WizdomClips]

Much love to Kyrie

[@annagordon9171]

Soul on Ice - required reading.

[@liam-w9f]

for rapists....

[@pauldeveaux1517]

The chapter on raping women is being read by frat boys right now

[@behtaouimohamed7914]

Cleaver is the pure black soul

[@kitaboo2245]

Pure?

[@liam-w9f]

You know he was a predator?

[@bowhook]

We are one, ACT LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@donmaliki1549]

I love you for what you've done for black folk.

[@krispy6796]

I got the book "soul on ice" at a church yard sale😱

[@liam-w9f]

Quite an unholy book....

[@goldsmithstudent]

check out Eldridge cleavers 1981 BYU speech. He bacame a changed man and loved his country and his people which were Americans Black and White

[@GrandFiction]

This is true for the native people of america to listen to as well.

[@theadvocate466]

Deric Jones what tribe are you?

[@rileymcintosh4852]

@@theadvocate466 I'm from the Suquamish tribe. Suquamish Washington. 100 pct

[@nickolai1991]

Oh, ya’ll can sing...I’m not a choir leader myself...1,2,3,4...

[@brotherword9234]

I have been telling my friend for years that this guy was a government agent,

[@aliquran7535]

What proof u have beside your belief ?

[@wayne47able]

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

[@liam-w9f]

@@aliquran7535 The predatory behaviour is a red flag....

[@pauldeveaux1517]

Well we know he was a rapist. And a drug addict. And he got thrown out of the Panthers.

[@LOJ777]

This was the panthers biggest mistake letting this clown in and ruining their movement for his own self serving agenda

[@behtaouimohamed7914]

Eldridge cleaver the clever

[@devettebrooks7470]

He absolutely 💯 was clever and knowledgeable a very smart man . And if you knew him personally you would've really been impressed.

[@tarikabaraka2251]

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver, escritor estadounidense, activista político. Ministro de Información de los Panteras Negras.

[@MaverickTaylor-k2l]

This brother was insane. Kool but crazy. I got the book "soul on ice" at a church yard sale.

[@TopCat.187]

have you read the book interested in reading soon, finishing off seize the time by Bobby seal

[@rabekagshakur7476]

Thank you donors who made this possible

[@pauldeveaux1517]

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".

[@mrautomaticcharismatic4289]

Bravo Bravo Bravo

[@Watchingyou-r9q]

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.

[@patrickfearon5546]

Here we are in 21 not much progress?

[@chasebizzy1]

Listening to this audio in its entirety is still preferable to reading two pages of Ta-Nehisi Coates. The spelling is close enough.

[@mboaz5611]

Is this speech from 1968 or 2014? Times have not changed but for the worst. Extremely candid.

[@24sevencinema]

its was future 2020 right now

[@Yewtooberr]

Bullshit - get a job.

[@bowhook]

Mr Nietzche your are wrong, you don't know anything about African American's, you need to do some serious reading!!!!!!

[@crysdee461]

No he isn't

[@zukoher]

25:27

[@sogekingfromsniperisland7033]

Damn right

[@chasebizzy1]

The Vietnam War gave men like this a respectable platform. The Vietnam War destroyed this country.

[@pauldeveaux1517]

Can you imagine being a parent paying for your kid to go to college and the school invites a convicted rapist to speak?

[@BadMemoryAccess]

All the commenters here praising a self-described serial rapist ...

[@mrautomaticcharismatic4289]

q

[@onemangang2545]

Should have had his head separated from his torso.

[@pennypinchers-dl6zv]

Speaks much says nothing.

[@robertmiles1603]

No. Fuck Cleaver. Ronald Reagan was the best other than Jefferson Davis.

[@robertmiles1603]

Marissa Gomez-Davis k lol

[@estheraustin5715]

fuck the usa

[@glennkirt4154]

All can make comments, but you can't judge a man unless you have walked a mile in his moccasins

[@znmaf]

Narrow minded self serving white supremacist comment