They hate white people and cops, and heart criminals, is what's really going on here

What do you expect from the kind of canaille who made Malcolm X a national leader and Edridge Cleaver a model for black manhood?

Protesters set off explosives, throw bricks after police officer shoots, kills 18-year-old in Missouri

Hundreds of people gathered at a suburban St. Louis gas station early Wednesday morning after a police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old man who had been pointing a 9 mm handgun at the officer, authorities said.

More than 50 police officers, some in riot gear, responded, and video showed officers wrestling with protesters.

Eldridge Cleaver

Like MX, he "reformed" long after his crimes and his hatred had made him a star.

In the most controversial part of the book, Cleaver acknowledges committing acts of rape, stating that he initially raped black women in the ghetto "for practice" and then embarked on the serial rape of white women. 

He described these crimes as politically inspired, motivated by a genuine conviction that the rape of white women was "an insurrectionary act."

When he began writing Soul on Ice, he unequivocally renounced rape and all his previous reasoning about it.

However, he refused to show any remorse for his career as a rapist, or acknowledge any debt to society, claiming in Soul on Ice that "the blood of Vietnamese peasants has paid off all my debts."

The New York Times praised "Soul on Ice," much as it had praised "The Wretched of the Earth" and Sartre's introduction.

Malcolm X

Still a hero to Louis Farrakhan and the millions who follow him.

And to Revered Al, too, I think.