The Black Panther who was banned from the ballot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : The cases of Trump and Cleaver illustrate a persistent American theme.
53% : The Panthers' intention, he said, was to "use our papier-mâché right to vote to help strengthen the Peace and Freedom Party and to help it attain its objectives within the framework of political realities in the mother country.
51% : Many decades before Trump, another best-selling author and charismatic leader in a rowdy movement to upend dominant American political mores aimed for the U.S. presidency -- Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panthers' minister of information and the author of Soul on Ice.
45% : To achieve these ends we believe that political and military machinery that does not exist now and has never existed must be created.
41% : Many states, however, allowed someone absolutely constitutionally disqualified to remain on their ballot; in Iowa, as reported in the Davenport Times-Democrat, the secretary of state "ruled that he must accept the certification in the absence of positive proof that Cleaver is not of eligible age."While the various charges haunting Trump during his current campaign involve less violent crimes, Cleaver, four months before receiving the PFP nomination with 74 percent of the delegates' votes, engaged in a firefight with Oakland police that resulted in another Panther's death.
32% : Unlike Trump, who this year overcame challenges from Colorado, Maine, and Illinois about his eligibility due to the Constitution's Insurrection Clause, Cleaver couldn't be caught up by the 14th Amendment, Section 3, since that explicitly only bars insurrectionists who had already been government officials.
20% : Donald Trump was not the first celebrity presidential candidate who could reasonably be accused of insurrection against the United States.

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