Word: jeffrieses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Martin event had a different dynamic from the start, Black and Jewish students say. Martin, whose book The Jewish Onslaught draws links between Jewish history and anti-Black racism, is not as prominent as Jeffries.
"Jeffries is a big name, everyone in America knows him," says Jim B. Loeffler '96, co-chair of Hillel's interethnic committee. "Tony Martin is not as well-known, in some ways a much more marginal figure in academia."
There was also more preparation and consequently more time for tensions to build in the Jeffries case, students say.
The topics discussed during the two speeches were also different. Jeffries made assertions of African racial superiority during his speech, calling every other "so-called race...a genetic off-spring of the African race."
In contrast, when the Jeffries' speech happened, the members of both groups were distant.