Cleaver’s Black Power politics centered black men’s fight for patriarchal standing.

Evidence

For him, white supremacy emasculated black men and denied them access to the benefits of patriarchy. Thus, politics became black men fighting for their place among white men. Baldwin’s words, his life really, called all of that into question. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 310

Categorization

• XREF: Explains why Baldwin’s queerness was politically threatening to Cleaver — the reader needs this causality to explain the ‘lie’ of the after times in intra-Black politics.