New York, Jan. 24—If it blurs in the mind just what and who are the Black Panthers, why they are an organization founded a few years ago on the doctrine that the United States is a racist- oppressive country best dealt with by the elimination of its leaders and institutions. Suggestive of its rhetorical style is the front page of its house organ which featured on the day after his death a photograph of Robert Kennedy lying in a pool of his own blood, his face transformed to the likeness of a Pig-
Do you think Robert Kennedy was a pig? I asked Eldridge Cleaver a while ago. Yes, he said. Did he believe in the elimination of pigs? Yes, he did. Well, why not begin with Nixon: surely he is the chief pig? I observed. Mr. Cleaver, who has had intimate experiences with the law, advised me that he knew enough not to counsel directly the assassination of the President, but that if in fact someone did kill him, that would be one less pig in the world.
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