February 24, 2004
BLACK LIKE ALEC:
FEARLESS LEADER (Page Six, February 23, 2004, NY Post)
ALEC Baldwin isn't suffering from any lack of self-esteem. In A&E's "Biography: Alec Baldwin," premiering tonight, the bombastic actor compares himself to Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, who wrote "Soul on Ice." Baldwin recalls that when he was younger, "My dad said to me, 'If you were black . . . with your personality,' he said, 'Do you think you would be Martin Luther King, or would you be Eldridge Cleaver? Would you be patient and wise, and kind, and peaceful?' He said, 'Or do you think you'd really, really get out there and . . . exert yourself a little more in order to leverage change in our society?' And I knew the answer . . .
Godfrey Cambridge. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 24, 2004 8:58 AM
Comments
I think its telling that the greater desire and opportunity for change was associated with the Black Panthers and not MLK, yet 40 years later MLK has this giant legacy and the Black Panthers accomplished nothing.
Posted by: Chris Durnell at February 24, 2004 10:17 AMChris:
Of course, we whites wanted the one who'd keep his own people in bondage (to the welfare system). We'd all be better off if the civil rights movement had been violent.
Posted by: oj at February 24, 2004 10:25 AMToo bad his whiteness held him back.
Posted by: Robert Duquette at February 24, 2004 12:34 PMI suspect Kim Basinger would offer a different name.
Posted by: jim hamlen at February 24, 2004 1:50 PMIs he still here?
Posted by: Genecis at February 25, 2004 12:48 PM