Article: THE ICE MAN CHANGETHCLEAVER ON THE RUN AGAIN.(Perspective)

Byline: John Howard

Former Black Panther leader, international fugitive and prison inmate Eldridge Cleaver sits in a sunny neighborhood cafe, nibbles a croissant and explains how he changed from radical militant to God- fearing Republican."It was the repression of other governments I encountered as a fugitive," said Cleaver, who spent seven years in self-imposed exile. "The oppression of the United States was nothing to that of countries like Cuba and North Korea. In Cuba, we wore fatigues and grew beards as revolutionary gestures, but I began to realize that the people viewed those fatigues as a symbol of repression." Eventually, he said, he concluded that "too ...

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