Posted on 09/02/2015 11:52:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Kathleen Neal Cleaver (born May 13, 1945) is an American professor of law, known for her involvement with the Black Panther Party.
The Cleavers apartment was raided in 1968 before a Panther rally by the San Francisco Tactical Squad on the suspicion of hiding guns and ammunition. Later that year, Eldridge Cleaver staged a deliberate ambush of Oakland police officers during which two police officers were injured. Cleaver was wounded and fellow Black Panther member Bobby Hutton was killed in a shootout following the initial exchange of gunfire. Charged with attempted murder, he jumped bail to flee to Cuba and later went to Algeria.
After graduating, she worked for the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and followed this with numerous jobs including: law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, the faculty of Emory University in Atlanta, visiting faculty member at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, the Graduate School of Yale University and Sarah Lawrence College.
In 2005, Cleaver was selected an inaugural Fletcher Foundation Fellow. She then worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Yale Law School, and a Senior Lecturer in the African American Studies department at Yale University. She is currently serving as senior lecturer at Emory University School of Law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Neal_Cleaver
Why do we tolerate this?
Unapologetic in her efforts to abolish systematic injustice, Kathleen Cleaver 84 LAW 89 has long been a leader in radical political circles.
. In 1967, she met and married Eldridge Cleaver, one of the first leaders of the Black Panther Party. Attracted to their Black Power ideology, Cleaver then joined the Black Panther ranks and moved to San Francisco, committed to eradicating the injustices that she continued to witness.
Eldridge was a fugitive, which is why we were there in the first place. We were leading the international section of the Black Panther Party, leading solidarity committees. Algeria was one of the only places in Africa with extensive access to the press. It was an outpost and facilitator of solidarity for the Black Panther Party.
It was the 80s, when Reagan announced he was a candidate for President he did it in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Why did he do that, when he was the Governor of California? What had happened in Philadelphia, Mississippi it was the murder of the three civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Cheney and Mickey Schwerner. To announce his candidacy there was to align himself with the white supremacist attitudes of Philadelphia, Mississippi. He took an anti-civil rights stance. I wanted to finish my college education so I could apply to law school, I wanted to do what I had seen Charles Garry the San Francisco attorney who defended the Black Panthers do. He was a brilliant, charismatic and highly effective criminal defense attorney. I wanted to know what he knew, and I came to Yale to be able to finish my B.A. and enroll in law school, which I did at Yale.
I am not sure if such a movement could happen during this time. The Black Panthers were a product of their time. During the emergence of the Panthers, the Vietnam War was happening, and that caused great social unrest. It is hard to start a movement when everyone involved is either imprisoned or has been assassinated. The Panthers have been demonized. I am not sure if there are enough young people who would be aware enough to start such an initiative. Young people today are not being educated in public schools. The prison industrial complex is trapping them. These things happen in waves, so well just have to wait. But Id like to end on a positive note: I would like to see a day in which the political climate of intimidation and repression dissolves into one rectifying injustice and enhancing social well-being.
Hack of the year would be to take control of the PA system at a big BLM event, play Ice-T’s “Cop Killer”, and capture on video howcthe crowd reacts.
Former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver on Assata Shakur and #BlackLivesMatter
One of the central figures in the history of the Black Panther Party is Kathleen Cleaver, the first communications secretary for the organization until 1971, when she went into exile in Algeria with her husband, Eldridge Cleaver.
Kathleen Cleaver is one of the many voices featured in filmmaker Stanley Nelsons new documentary, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, which hits select movie theaters starting Sept. 2 and debuts on PBS next year. Nelson says he wanted to tell the story of the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, a little-known history that hadnt been told in its entirety.
Now 70 years old, Kathleen Cleaverwho is finishing her memoir, Memories of Love and Waris a law professor at Emory University and co-founder of the Human Rights Research Fund. The Root spoke with her about the Panthers, Black Lives Matter and Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, the party member who is exiled in Cuba.
“Are these those goddamn fools called New Black Panthers? Because they are not Black Panthers. They are posers, agents and morons, as far as Im concerned. Most of them dont know anything about the Black Panther Party, either.”
” Lets get one thing straight: The Black Panthers was not a movement. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was an organization created Oct. 21, 1966, with a 10-point platform of what we wanted, what we believed. It was [at] the time when organizations such as SNCC, the NAACP and CORE were in the forefront of the black struggle. So there was a civil rights movement, but it was generated through organizations.”
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I don’t want to weed through all of my post history all the way back to Obumbler’s first election... but, I am sure that I pretty specifically stated that this is what was going to happen. I think many other FReepers saw the same..
I have seen the RNC GOPe express their Leftist tendencies for a log time, 35 years or so. So leftist legislation, leftist candiates... sure. I could see that.
Capitulating to a man of Obama’s caliber? No. I honestly never saw that coming.
If you would have told me 6.5 years ago that every Republican but one would sign on to a bill making it easier for Obama green light Iran for nuclear weapons, there’s no way I would have agreed to that premise.
As for talking with avowed racists, no, I don’t think I saw that coming either.
The Republicans have signed on to the worst of the worst of the worst.
I could see them buying into the worst. In comes cases I could see them buying into the worst of the worst. I never thought I would see them buying into the worst of the worst of the worst.
That may be confusing, but these folks have backed the worst policies of the worst individual in the worst party in the U. S.
Because of that 99-1, I honestly don’t see a chance (of a safe) recovery of the original USA for at least 2 generations, possibly never again :(
I am now looking for options (checking with Israel) for new citizenship.. I know I will catch flack for saying this :/
I find that shocking as well,
Lets not kid ourselves, some of our champions bought off on that.
I can’t say that Trump will be his kind of guy, but we need a man that supports decent policy good enough that he convinces others that it’s okay to support it.
It can become in vogue to love this nation and fight for it again.
Screw the big money. I’d rather go back to individual pauper status, and rebuild than be beholding to people who want this nation to be their slave.
And frankly, anyone big money that expresses that demand, I can easily think of them as traitors if they want to go that route.
If they try to liquidate and move out of this nation, simply slap a freeze on their funds. We’ll see how that works out.
I’m tired of suffering these jerks.
Firsst time, this election cycle (forvive the typoes, only connection now is a small touch type android.. man, I miss my computer..
Thimgs are falling fast..nand, like I said before, this was foreseen by many of us FReepERS, including you... grr. This “smartphone” crap is pisxing me off .....
Thanks. I understood what you meant, and things are going to hell in a hand-basket, FAST.
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