Word: jeffriesism
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3) Inviting majority speakers who regard other minorities as inferior. If you haven't gotten the point yet, try imagining Leonard Jeffries as your Commencement speaker. And finally...
In addition, the Black Students' Association and the Afro-American Cultural Society have both hosted speakers with little purpose other than a garner headlines. Recently, the latter brought Dr. Khalid Muhammed to speak. His talk was laced with inflammatory remarks that make Mansfield's seem like small change. Similarly, the...
Yet this outspoken academic certainly isn't the only public figure to raise students' ire recently. In February, D. Khallid Muhammad, who appeared at a conference sponsored by the African American Cultural Society, made inflammatory statements about gays, Jews, whites, and Black Harvard faculty members. And last year, Leonard Jeffries...
If people disagree with Mansfield's statements, or if they feel hurt by those statements, they have ample recourse--in free expression itself. In an interview with The Crimson earlier this month, Ali called for students to "exercise their freedom of speech...and refute [Mansfields'] statement." He's exactly right...
As ugly and divisive as MacKinnon's sentiments are, she has a right to free speech. But her hatemongering should not win her tenure at Harvard, nor should it take the place of balanced scholarship as a required academic credential. For CCR, which claims to champion civil rights, to endorse...