Word: jeffriesism
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First, Leonard Jeffries, chair of City College of New York's Black studies department and renowned espouser of racist Black supremacy theories, lashed out at Jews in a two-hour speech at an African-American cultural festival. He asserted that an organized plan, "plotted and programmed out of Hollywood by...
Gates is concerned about the anti-semitism he has seen recently amid the work of some scholars, such as City University of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries. Gates says he must be a "powerful voice against vulger impulses in the discipline."
Gates is concerned about the anti-semitism he has seen recently amid the work of some scholars, such as City University of New York Professor Leonard Jeffries. Gates says he must be a "powerful voice against vulger impulses in the discipline."
At first, Jeffries' speech escaped wider public attention. Then NY-SCAN, the state's cable-television channel, broadcast the performance, and the New York Post published a long account of it. That set off an indignant debate that had larger implications.
The first question: Are Jeffries' moments of flamboyant malice protected as exercises of academic freedom? New York Governor Mario Cuomo was not sure. First he said Jeffries' rant was "so egregious that the City University ought to take action or explain why it doesn't." Cuomo later backtracked and defended...