Word: jeffriesism
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Academic freedom is another thing, but it should not include the right to encourage a Final Solution for whites. According to the CUNY student newspaper, Jeffries did so once in a CUNY classroom.
Of course, Jeffries has the legal right to espouse whatever ridiculous theories on race he can conjure up. But his message of division and cultural nationalism can only lead his followers--many of them inner-city Blacks still desperate for truly equal political representation--to violence. His power to incite...
Still, none of these things, horrifying as they are, makes Jeffries totally unacceptable as a guest speaker at Harvard. The Black Students Association (BSA), along with the Black Law students Association and the DuBois Graduate Society, asked Jeffries to speak in Sanders Theatre in February.
Our objections to this invitation stemmed not from Jeffries' beliefs. Indeed, the BSA has every right to invite whomever they want, including people with non-mainstream and even racist views of history. When Conrad Muhammad was invited, for example, The Crimson did not object. Our gripe with the Jeffries invitation...
Gates says the department must avoid the "voodoo Egyptology and anti-Semitism epitomized by [controversial City University of New York professor] Leonard Jeffries."