h "minister of information" Eldridge Cleaver delivered in a Bay Area park to accept the Peace and Freedom Party's nomination for president.
"I would love to sit around ... drinking wine, smoking pot and making love to my wife, but I can't afford to be doing that while all these pigs are loose," Cleaver says. "Here I am, a convict. A whole lot of respectable people nominated me for president. I'm not going to get elected.... I'm a symbol of dissent, or rejection."
There have been at least a half dozen books and films by former Panthers, or about them, over the last decade. "Black Against Empire," however, is unique among them in the scope and depth of its scholarship.