Word: jeffriesism
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Both Blacks and Jews must work to alleviate racial tension. The SBA's invitation of Leonard Jeffries was hugely offensive to Jews (and others), and Counter should condemn Jeffries much more strongly than he has.
The Crimson is interested in Jeffries more than it is interested in Levin for two reasons. We originally became interested in Jeffries when he threatened to kill our reporter and took his tapes. We remained interested in him when student groups invited him to speak on campus.
Of course The Crimson condemns Levin's horribly racist teachings. And if he were invited to speak here, we would be the first to say so in print. It's The Harvard Crimson, remember. If we were The CUNY Crimson, we would cover both Levin and Jeffries extensively.
We wonder if we attend the same school as Reid does. The white, non-Jewish students who hung Confederate flags last year weren't getting along "admirably" with Blacks, or for that matter with Hillel, which joined BSA in condemning the flag hangers. The anti-Arab sentiment expressed during the...
And aside from mentioning the Jeffries incident, Counter and Reid ignore The Crimson's coverage of minority and race issues. This year we have covered the Institute of Politics' invitation to David Duke, the problems of internationalizing the University, the Reserve Officers Training Corps' ban on gays, the problems of...