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Portland Observar Thursday. September 13. 1979 Page 9 Eldridge Cleaver. ' Is he f o r real? by UUysses Tucker, Jr. BOB BAILEY Local singer comes home Bob Bailey, tenor soloist, seen and heard by millions on The PTL Club will appear in concert at Maranatha Church, located at 1222 N.E. Skid more on September 16th, at 10:45 a.m. Singing is a tra d itio n fo r Bob Bailey. As a part o f ‘ ‘ The Bailey f amily Singers" he toured profes sionally all over the United States. His credits include four years as host o f his ow n radio show in Portland on KBPS; w inning the N ational Association o f Teachers Singing Award for the State o f Oregon, and to u rin g lu ro p e w ith the w orld famous group, “ New Hope." Bob has also written and produced com mercial jingles for use in the media. He will sing with some of the finest orchestral accompaniment in the world and w ill also accompany him self on the piano. His concert has universal appeal spanning the whole spectrum o f sacred music. Currently Bob is a daily feature o f The PTL Club seen on over 200 stations across the country. Jim Bakker, host o f The PTL Club has stated that "there are few people who we have seen on our show who are more talented or more exciting than Bob Bailey. We are proud to have him as a part o f our musical fa m ily." Reverend John G arlington and Maranatha Church extends a cordial invitation to the public to attend this special event. » M r . a n d M rs . A r th u r M . C a rs o n w e r e h o n o r e d o n t h e ir 2 5 th w e d d in g a n n iv e r s a r y w it h a s u rp ris e p a r ty a t t h e ir h o m e Personalized & Custom Made Jewelry Jewelry/Watches/Diamonds Diamond Setting Eldridge Cleaver roared out o f prison in 1968, challenging Blacks to overthrow their colonial masters, to fight rather than wait for the pigs to give them a couple o f states. “ We shall have our manhood,” he stated in his book. Soul on Ice; a book w rit ten while he was serving 8-14 for rape in California. "W e shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our at tempt to gain it.” His book made him a success with everyone except the authorities bent on revoking his parole. He posted bail on charges o f assault w ith inten t to m urder a policeman in the same shoot-out in Oakland which Black Panther Bobby Hutton was killed. Cleaver was also the Minister o f Information for the Black Panther P arty. Between September and November 27, 1968, Eldridge spoke on campuses up and down the state o f C a lifo rn ia — 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 at a time— in various schools. He was not o nly speaking in C alifornia but also on other cam puses all over the United States. Cleaver had students cussing out Ronald Reagan by the thousands. Eldridge gave students a better un derstanding about the tru th o f American politics. He also wrote several news stories in the Panther paper as Editor-in-Chief. During this period o f time before he le ft. Cleaver was involved in another large dispute with the state and Ronald Reagan concerning the speeches he was hired to give on "Racism in America” at the Univer sity o f C a lifo rn ia . He was doing everything he could to expose the power structure. There were signs that he was not going back to prison. Cleaver traveled to other cities to ex pose the other demogogic politicians in a hurry; trying to do everything he had time for, to expose this facist power structure for what it really is. Eldridge stated, “ I ’ve cussed my way all across the co un try and back again. These pigs are scared o f me and what 1 am saying. They’ re scared because people are listening. They’ ve got to shut me up, and the only way they can do that is to put me in prison again and kill me there. They think I am going back to that,” he said, "b u t I ain not going." Once Cleaver spoke at a Catholic girls college where they trained girls to be nuns. In the middle o f his speech 5,000 girls joined in singing w ith E ldridge, " F — Ronald Reagan, one, tw o , three, F--- Ronald Reagan, one, tw o, three, F— Ronald Reagan!" The day before he was scheduled to return to prison, he lied to Mon treal, Canada. He thought that it would be impossible for a Black Pan ther to get a fair trial in the United States. Cleaver was convinced that other countries outside o f the U.S. would aid the revolution within the country. He traveled from Canada to Cuba, Algeria, North Korea, China, Vietnam, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic o f the Congo but they taught him differently. In 1972, his belief in international proletarian solidarity was shattered when Mao Tse-Tungs welcomed President Nixon, to China. Cleaver’ s total per spective o f the world was crumbled as well as his dreams. He then decided to come back to America. The FBI arrested Cleaver at Ken nedy A irp o rt in New Y ork on Suspensions (Continued from page I col. 6) relative to w hite suspensions, warrants the most intensive possible investigation in the part o f the School District administration. I f no reasonable explanation o f this over whelming disproportionate suspen sion o f m inority students in these schools is forthcoming from this in vestigation, the strongest action possible should be taken to insure administrative accountability and to prevent a recurrence o f this situation." The schools with the greatest dis crepancy between Black and white suspensions were Normandale and Gray which had no white suspension and 12.50 and 14.80 per cent Black suspensions. Hayhurst and Glencoe suspended 15 times more Blacks than whites. Others with high rates o f disparity were Woodstock, Marys v ille , M arkham , A tk in s o n and Wilson and Jackson High Schools. November 18, 1975, he was charged for “ unlawful interstate flig h t.” a holding charge which they dropped when he was later transferred to a federal pen in San Diego. Cleaver brought back a new found patriotism , and claimed that the American system was “ the freest in the world.” Weak words for a man who wanted to level the earth in or der to gain his manhood. Over the past few years Cleaver has cleaned up his bad boy image and is now a born again Christian. “ I was on the twelfth floor o f a b u ild in g in France where I was living. I was loo king at the fu ll moon, and 1 saw, like, a man in the moon. I saw myself in the moon! It was the profile picture o f me that they used to print on Black Panther leaflets. I had seen men in the moon before, but I had never seen myself in the moon.” Cleaver also said he saw Karl Marx in the moon and sud denly Jesus Christ’ s image appeared. Cleaver “ dropped to his knees, began repeating the Lords Prayer and the 23rd Psalm” and was “ able to sleep very well that night.” Thus becoming a born again saint. . . Is he for real? “ I don’t bother to answer that question,” he was once quoted. Cleaver is a unique individual in a few ways, although he has been labeled a ‘ ‘ s e ll-o u t,” “ a fake believer,” etc. First, during the late sixties his radical role was relevant because o f the social and economic p lig ht o f Blacks. C leaver, like Newton, Seales, Jackson, Hampton, Stokely, and thousands o f others “ threw the necessary b ricks” to wake up a sleeping racist system. We now have the job o f making sure that the system stays awake and in tune to the p rio ritie s o f Black people. Secondly, he is alive—and happy with his wife and kids. Unlike many o f that generation who were sy stematically eliminated. 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