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Week 11 Analysis: Racism


            Eldridge Cleaver was born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas in 1935, at the age of 22 he was imprisoned due to assault. During his time inside the prison cell, he began to study the works of Karl Marx and Richard Wright, the work of Cleaver became influential even after he died in 1998. Cleaver also became a part of the Black Panther Party which aims to merge black nationalism and socialism. However, in 1960 racism and prejudice is common in California which mostly affects the black people. Cleaver was then again taken into custody by the police and revoked his parole due because there has been an attacked to the Black Panther Party in which the police targeted this group. During his stay in the prison, he wrote the Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches which includes Affidavit #2: Shoot-Out in Oakland.
            Affidavit #2: Shoot-Out in Oakland is a story in which it shows the racism and prejudice that a black-American experience during that time. This story is connected to what happens to the Black Panther Party which results in deaths of some members and the recapturing of Cleaver which is unjust. In addition to this, this story has shown how police officers that time looks on people with dark skin, they treat them like criminals and capture them without any warrant of arrest. The story of Cleaver has shown how the life of black-American was, during the time where people look at people with dark skin as different and slaves.
            As we all know, America has built with the help of African in which they are used as slaves in farms and other fields of business in order to gain profit and built this great country. However, as time passed by, they gain their freedom but they were treated the same by the white people.

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