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.
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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. Even though
some say he turned the other cheek—
he’ ll still be Eldridge Cleaver, Black
Panther and Black revolutionary—
because th a t’ s how history w ill
remember him. There’ s no way that
Cleaver will be listed in the Bible as a
born again Christian. . .
Lastly, Cleaver is the perfect
example o f “ if you can’ t beat em,
jo in em” p o litic s — What would
Malcolm X say?
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