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Show LtfjBMtowa!! Black Panthers are compassionate beings ..ffQ Rmwn to kill someone, vou'rp Hrvi black patrols to follow the Oakland, Calif., police. When the Police stopped someone, the patrol would act as witnesses and intorm the person of his rights. From Cleaver's viewpoint, the ghetto police-the occupation troops the symbol of white establishment-.practice a systematic program to limit a black man's opportunity by giving him a police record at an early age. Even in prison, he maintains, the authorities consciously create a level of hostility among racial groups, giving preferential treatment to whites. Party Understands Now, an alternative for young blacks is the Panther party. "It was organized by their peers; it understands the world the way they understand it. And for the young black male, it supplies very badly needed standards of masculinity," said Cleaver. Contrary to white charges, Cleaver is talking to whites as well as blacks. He knows there are young whites who are as alarmed at the injustices of blacks and whites in this country as he is. As Cleaver "Ow puts it, "They recognize that more than freedom for blacks is at issue-their issue-their own freedom is at stake." Stand I p For Liberty He asks only that whites just be Americans "as the rhetoric claims Americans are supposed to be. Just' stand up for liberty everywhere. Stand up for justice everywhere-especially right here in their own country. Make this really the home of the free." Blacks have talked for a long time about police brutality -the white demonstrators are just beginning to understand the term. Blacks have asked to be freed-white student niggers are just beginning to seek their emancipation. Whites can never fully understand the totality of the black man's plight because the color line is a barrier. But the young whites can understand humanness, and therefore, understand Cleaver and the Black Panther party. Byjeannette Brown , have learned how to we know the game and not going to be tricked v" iust Eldridge Cleaver's Tha s g the Black Panther Jp2s on being around fhrpe Panther leaders fitter of Information, 0eaVr'Nwton, minister of 0 and Bobby Seale, DSr of Education; plan to be B1 a awhile too. As a result, KtnS'ed fear, hatred and ti n inside white America S they're "just not going to pricked anymore. leaver has gained more publicity than the other two E artly because he was the ce and Freedom party residential candidate, and partly Le Newton and Seale were in In unable to talk freely. Cleaver has been renounced as met for the presidency because 0 several convictions of marijuana possession and a conviction in 1558 for assault with intent to kill aid rape. He was paroled in 1966 after Ramparts named him senior alitor, but to most of America he is s'tiH obscene, violent, uneducated and a troublemaking ex-con. 'Don't Dig Violence' Far above the name calling, however, is the reality: Cleaver is a : black man. "I don't dig violence. Guns are ugly. People are what's beautiful; and when you use a gun to Kin someone, you're doine something ugly," said Cleaver White America is afraid that this time the blacks-the Panthers-will violently destroy society's structure. Cleaver has been labeled racist, segregationist and fanatical for demanding freedoms even many white don't enjy- ........ White America is wrong: he is not a racist, segregationist or fanatic. He is human, warm, compassionate and deeply committed to freeing the slaves of the U.S. Not Afraid Most importantly, Cleaver is not afraid of white America-of its violence, threats or suppression. He's been through all that. He, and his black people, have nothing to lose and everything to gain from their new-found black power. Cleaver, unlike most of the white middle-class, recognizes two kinds of violence: violence as suppression and violence as a defense against suppression. The Panthers have asked this country to give up its violence (suppression) or face the consequences of black violence (defense). ''The Panthers are revolutionary, but that means we're disciplined, that we're working out programs that will uproot this decadent society, transform its politics and economics and build a structure fit to exist on a civilized planet inhabited by humanized beings " he said. Raised In Ghetto Cleaver's no fool. He was brought up in the ghetto where the economic system of selling dope or playing football were his only alternative for employment. He s been street educated and prison educated. From Huey Newton he learned the laws and how to use them for his safety. And, he knows most of all that self-knowledge-what it means to be black-and political power are the only real weapons to un-dehumanize his people. Political power to a ghetto street-educated man is an organization, a set of goals and loaded guns. "The number one problem right now," he contends, "is that of repression by the police. It's not only just police brutality and crimes; it's police intimidation of black communities." Feared Retaliation The blacks have not organized before for real change because they are afraid of various forms of retaliation from the police. So the Black Panthers "exposed the Gestapo power, and the people learned they didn't have to submit to oppressive, arbitrary brutality that had been directed against them." When the Panthers organized in October, 1966, they began armed Students, faculty, administration, alumni as well as non-members of the University community are invited to write letters to the editor. Letters should not exceed five inches or 250 words, and, of course, will not be printed if libelous. 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