Word: jeffriesism
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The melanin theory, most notoriously advocated by Leonard Jeffries, has no grounding in accepted fact and can defend itself only by claiming that the effects of melanin "cannot be measured with Eurocentric methods." What might those "Eurocentric methods" be? Science? That's probably one such method we might want to...
Two years ago, when the Black Students Association (BSA) invited City University of New York (CUNY) Professor Leonard Jeffries to speak at Harvard, the campus erupted in protest. In large part, students were upset because they felt Jeffries, a well-known anti-Semite, homophobe and Black supremacist, should not be...
In a word, the theory is bunk. Even the BSA's leaders at the time, while stopping well short of denouncing Jeffries' views, refrained from endorsing them. As then-BSA President Art A. Hall '93 put it, "We endorse his Blackness, as a Black individual and a Black intellectual, but...
BSA President Kristen Clarke '97 wasn't here for the Jeffries lecture. But in a letter to the editors of The Crimson, Clarke made a series of assertions cerily reminiscent of the CUNY professor's racist theories. Among them, was the following: "Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and...
We quoted a message left by Morgan, who was shaken up by the encounter, on The Crimson's answering machine. The message had two instances of the f-word, and we thought it reflected his state of mind and the effect Jeffries's threat had on him.