The Forty Studies That Changed Psychology

The Forty Studies That Changed Psychology

Eldridge Cleaver….a black American essayist, editor, and public enemy number one in the mist of McCarthyism present in the days of the protest movement.

Cleaver’s [Soul on Ice] personifies Leftism at its core, with its unique combination of sex and revolution that personified the New left image to the masses. Critic Horst Kruger describes this mixture by how it’s perceived in West Germany: “the era of Sex and Socialism. Eros is on the Left and beautiful is our youthful rebellion. Make love and carry the banner of Vietcong high.” {Painting Black Cardboard Figures, 1968) this emphasized Cleaver’s violent approach and skill quite evident in his writing. Cleaver discusses his infatuation with white women that was constantly imbedded within the root of the subjects mentioned in the book. In Soul on Ice Cleaver made negative references to African American women as “bitches” “amazons” and etc. “There’s softness about white women” he explained “but a nigger bitch seems to be full of steel….The white women is like a goddess …. I worship her. I love white women’s dirty drawers.” Cleavers fixation gave way to calling himself a self professed rapist that targeted white women that arose after “practicing” on his own kind. Cleaver solely believed that this was caused by madness as an act of revenge by the means of accumulated racial injustices. “After 400 years minus my balls, I have the right to proceed any white women I desire.” Cleaver’s reasoning on depravity, manipulation, and betrayal that manifested its self in America, but Cleaver’s insight on the Negro today by portraying oneself as obtaining a turbulent internal stance, Cleaver’s justifications defined by narrowing them to a profound sense of explanation to those who are not black, the book had not been subjected to pre conceived notions on approval or disapproval making this book even more authentic staying true to Cleaver’s inner most thoughts. Cleaver describes this period in American culture purely in accuracy to the grueling irony bestowed, to the form of the most voluntary truth. Cleaver successfully clarifies the distortion caused by hypocrisy that has altered are historical consciousness. Cleaver for warns America that after years of oppression “Gives shape to the time bomb ticking in the black man’s skull’’( Shane Stevens “Quest for Dignity” Progressive 1968).This bomb would soon explode due to traditional standards that Cleaver has definitely not conformed to.