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We agree with the staff position that Leonard Jeffries is an obnoxious, hateful character. But in the interest of protecting the greater ideal of academic freedom, his ideas must not be institutionally silenced. As a scholar--of whatever quality--Jeffries should be protected; as a common criminal, Jeffries should be...
SOME FACTS ABOUT PROFESSOR LEONARD JEFFRIES:
Moreover, Jeffries is still the chair of the African-American Studies department at CUNY, a taxpayer-funded university. This is an outrage.
FREE SPEECH IS ONE THING, but it does not include the right to issue death threats. Nor does it include the right to take somebody else's belongings. Jeffries's actions constitute federal offenses, as well as state felonies, because they denied the civil rights of a journalist and because...
This incident alone provides more than sufficient grounds for CUNY to rescind Jeffries's tenure for his conduct unbecoming of a faculty member.