Why Cleaver raped white women

According to CNN’s obituary of Eldridge Cleaver in 1998:

In one essay, Cleaver described his rape of white women as “an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the white man’s law … defiling his women.”

“I wanted to send waves of consternation through the white race,” he said.

And he did. When Cleaver was asked to speak at the University of California at Berkeley, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan expressed outrage.

“If Eldridge Cleaver is allowed to teach our children, they may come home one night and slit our throats,” Reagan said.

Yet, notwithstanding the very high number of black-on-white rapes,—far above what can be accounted for by the greater number of potential white victims, and also far above what the number would be if the victims were chosen randomly—it remains the case that it is racist, wicked, and horrible to suggest that other black rapists may have thoughts and motives similar to Cleaver’s.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 16, 2007 12:41 AM | Send