Eldridge Cleaver speaking at UCLA 10/4/1968

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  • From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.
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  • @theinfamouspokeinrichmondc3543
    @theinfamouspokeinrichmondc3543 4 роки тому +20

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

    • @jimpossible855
      @jimpossible855 3 роки тому +2

      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
      @theinfamouspokeinrichmondc3543 3 роки тому

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

    • @jimpossible855
      @jimpossible855 3 роки тому +1

      @@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
      @jimpossible855 3 роки тому +1

      Eldridge is a MAN to measure other men by

    • @jimpossible855
      @jimpossible855 3 роки тому

      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
    @RobertWBates-hw5ej 6 років тому +38

    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
      @obianujuikeaka9947 6 років тому +5

      Robert Bates this comment was beautiful

    • @BarnabyWild13
      @BarnabyWild13 4 роки тому +2

      Robert Bates thanks for comment

    • @rabekagshakur7476
      @rabekagshakur7476 2 роки тому +4

      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
      @wayne47able 2 роки тому

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

    • @teckswatts3936
      @teckswatts3936 Рік тому

      @@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.

  • @wayneghent6045
    @wayneghent6045 Рік тому +1

    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".

  • @homoerectussemenallyretent6638
    @homoerectussemenallyretent6638 6 років тому +14

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

  • @johnalexander1868
    @johnalexander1868 4 роки тому +19

    This brother was insane. Kool but crazy

    • @greyarcher4686
      @greyarcher4686 3 роки тому

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      @jacobychad1696 3 роки тому

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    • @giovanniryder4057
      @giovanniryder4057 3 роки тому

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    • @iSee109
      @iSee109 Рік тому

      How does he compare to Kanye West?

    • @user-yh9wu4ni1e
      @user-yh9wu4ni1e Рік тому

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

  • @annagordon9171
    @annagordon9171 2 роки тому +4

    Soul on Ice - required reading.

  • @jggrimm
    @jggrimm 3 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @mrautomaticcharismatic4289
    @mrautomaticcharismatic4289 Рік тому +1

    Much love salute to you

  • @WizdomClips
    @WizdomClips Рік тому +2

    Much love to Kyrie

  • @dakingofmines2589
    @dakingofmines2589 4 роки тому +11

    *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.

  • @annagordon9171
    @annagordon9171 2 роки тому +9

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

  • @behtaouimohamed7914
    @behtaouimohamed7914 4 роки тому +7

    Cleaver is the pure black soul

  • @krispy6796
    @krispy6796 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @bowhook
    @bowhook 8 років тому +3

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

  • @mboaz5611
    @mboaz5611 9 років тому +9

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

  • @donmaliki1549
    @donmaliki1549 5 років тому +6

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

  • @user-wp5gu2sy3f
    @user-wp5gu2sy3f 2 місяці тому

    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.

  • @behtaouimohamed7914
    @behtaouimohamed7914 4 роки тому +5

    Eldridge cleaver the clever

    • @devettebrooks7470
      @devettebrooks7470 2 роки тому

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

  • @patrickfearon5546
    @patrickfearon5546 3 роки тому +1

    Here we are in 21 not much progress?

  • @Watchingyou-r9q
    @Watchingyou-r9q 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @chasebizzy1
    @chasebizzy1 7 років тому +3

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

  • @tarikabaraka2251
    @tarikabaraka2251 3 місяці тому +2

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

  • @mrautomaticcharismatic4289
    @mrautomaticcharismatic4289 3 роки тому +1

    Bravo Bravo Bravo

  • @goldsmithstudent
    @goldsmithstudent 6 років тому +7

    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

  • @nickolai1991
    @nickolai1991 6 років тому +3

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

  • @brotherword9234
    @brotherword9234 3 роки тому +8

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

    • @aliquran7535
      @aliquran7535 3 роки тому

      What proof u have beside your belief ?

    • @wayne47able
      @wayne47able 2 роки тому

      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

    • @user-yh9wu4ni1e
      @user-yh9wu4ni1e Рік тому +1

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

    • @pauldeveaux1517
      @pauldeveaux1517 Рік тому

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

  • @pauldeveaux1517
    @pauldeveaux1517 Рік тому +1

    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".

  • @GrandFiction
    @GrandFiction 9 років тому +5

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

    • @theadvocate466
      @theadvocate466 6 років тому

      Deric Jones what tribe are you?

    • @rileymcintosh4852
      @rileymcintosh4852 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @bowhook
    @bowhook 8 років тому +8

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

  • @user-fz6hn2jn7e
    @user-fz6hn2jn7e 11 місяців тому

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

    • @TopCat.187
      @TopCat.187 2 місяці тому

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

  • @rabekagshakur7476
    @rabekagshakur7476 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you donors who made this possible

  • @zukoher
    @zukoher 3 роки тому +1

    25:27

  • @LOJ777
    @LOJ777 2 роки тому +8

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

  • @mrautomaticcharismatic4289
    @mrautomaticcharismatic4289 2 роки тому

    q

  • @chasebizzy1
    @chasebizzy1 7 років тому +2

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

  • @onemangang2545
    @onemangang2545 4 роки тому +2

    Should have had his head separated from his torso.

  • @pauldeveaux1517
    @pauldeveaux1517 Рік тому +1

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

  • @BadMemoryAccess
    @BadMemoryAccess 9 місяців тому

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

  • @pennypinchers-dl6zv
    @pennypinchers-dl6zv Місяць тому

    Speaks much says nothing.

  • @robertmiles1603
    @robertmiles1603 7 років тому

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

    • @robertmiles1603
      @robertmiles1603 7 років тому

      Marissa Gomez-Davis
      k lol

    • @estheraustin5715
      @estheraustin5715 2 роки тому

      fuck the usa

    • @glennkirt4154
      @glennkirt4154 Рік тому

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

    • @znmaf
      @znmaf 10 місяців тому

      Narrow minded self serving white supremacist comment