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This year, when the BSA hosted a speech by Wellesley professor Anthony Martin, whose writings have been compared with Jeffries' statements on the relations between Jews and anti-Black racism, Hillel did not protest. Members passed out a letter at the event, and did little more.
But perhaps the most ironic answer given by members of both Hillel and BSA is that it was Jeffries himself who improved relations between the two groups. The shadow of the 1992 incident and its aftermath has hung over Blacks and Jews for two years, and no one wanted to...
"For myself personally and many of the seniors, [the Jeffries speech] was a defining moment of my freshman year," says Michael H. Pine '95, who helped organize the recent BSA Hillel dialogue. "I wasn't particularly active in Hillel then. The fallout front that event encouraged me to get involved...
The Jeffries Speech
Jeffries was the focus of national controversy the summer before his speech, when his theories on a racism conspiracy involving Jewish member of the media were made public.