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After months of refusing to take any real action for fear of rankling Jeffries supporters on campus, even the City University of New York said last week they would remove Jeffries from his bully pulpit as chair of the Afro-American Studies Department.
All of which makes the decision to invite Jeffries both offensive and outrageous.
ALTHOUGH JEFFRIES HAS the full right to espouse ridiculous theories on race and race relations, he has no right to threaten a life and he has no place in the Harvard community.
The Black Students Association (BSA), which invited Jeffries along with the Black Law Students Association and the DuBois Graduate Society, has defended the invitation with an endorsement of Jeffries' "Blackness as a Black individual and a Black intellectual..." They also say they seek to educate the campus about "diverse perspectives...
But the decision on this particular racist is an easy one. The BSA should not have invited him. Because of his actions of hatred and violence, the Jeffries debate should not be about free speech and divergent views of history but about whether someone who issues death threats deserves a...